Share Point - The SharePoint Wheel

The SharePoint Wheel

Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 marketing refers to the "SharePoint Wheel" to 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).