The SharePoint Wheel
Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 marketing refers to the "SharePoint Wheel" to help describe what SharePoint's tools can facilitate inside organizations. The wheel refers to six outcomes:
- Sites: A site is a contextual work environment. Once SharePoint is configured, these sites can be created without any requirement for specialized knowledge. A context for a site may be organization-wide, or it may be specific to an individual team or group.
- Communities: A community is a place where communication and understanding happens. Communities can occur around any context, and will typically develop around either shared knowledge, or shared activities (such as collaboration).
- Content: SharePoint provides management of documents and work items that need to be stored, found, collaborated on, updated, managed, documented, archived, traced or restored - in accordance with relevant compliance or governance policies.
- Search: Look for relevant communities, content, people, or sites: search is based on keywords, refinement, and content analysis.
- Insights: Information from any part of the organization can be surfaced inside useful contexts, providing information that can improve effectiveness.
- Composites: SharePoint enables no-code integration of data, documents and processes to provide composite applications ("mash-ups" based on internal data).
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“Let the wheel spin out,
Till all created things
With shout and answering shout
Cast off rememberings....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)