What is SharePoint?

"SharePoint is often misunderstood, chiefly because it is often poorly explained and positioned by the sales folks. It is far easier to sell a "tool" ("yes, SharePoint does that!") than a platform ("yes, you can build this functionality on top of SharePoint"). What SharePoint IS is essentially an operating system in the browser.

SharePoint is een Microsoft oplossing gericht op optimale samenwerking en is volledig geintegreerd met Office. SharePoint is een programma dat organisaties gebruiken om medewerkers beter samen te laten werken dan dat zij met shared drives en shared folders kunnen doen. SharePoint bevat onder meer eenvoudige websites met bibliotheken om documenten op te slaan, lijsten om taken te beheren, kalenders enzovoort.

SharePoint represents the new way to work together. SharePoint allows you to share content, organize into teams, discover answers, build websites and manage risk.

This web development overview explores what SharePoint is and how it works. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/SharePoint-2010-tutorials/essential-training/65720-2.html?utm_medium=viral&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=videoupload-65720-0101 This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter one of the SharePoint 2010 Essential Training course presented by lynda.com author Simon Allardice.

In 2008, the Gartner Group put SharePoint in the "leaders" quadrant in three of its Magic Quadrants (for search, portals, and enterprise content management). SharePoint is used by 78% of Fortune 500 companies.

Organizations use SharePoint to create websites. You can use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from almost any device. All you need is a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Firefox. Want to learn more? Get started with SharePoint.

We all know what SharePoint's capabilities are, what it does well and where it falls down but could you describe what it does in just one sentence? I was with a potential customer just recently and they asked me this very question. Suffice to say my answer was more than one sentence.

Thanks to Mark Jones's question "What is a site collection" it triggered the question that I receive almost daily and sometimes more times a day. I want to share that question that I get on a daily basis: What is SharePoint? As SharePoint is one of the major products of ...