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Microsoft SharePoint presents a set of two new technologies from Microsoft that were developed to facilitate information sharing both within organizations and over the Internet, SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and SharePoint Team Services. The SharePoint technologies were developed as a direct result of customer feedback and research into information sharing practices within organizations. The research clearly demonstrated that no one solution could address the information-sharing needs of an entire organization; small and ad hoc teams share information in very different ways than do large teams.

• Small or ad hoc workgroups need informal means to work together on group deliverables, share documents, and communicate status with one another. These groups need to share information easily and effortlessly and SharePoint Team Services–based Web sites allow them to do that.
  
• Large workgroups with structured processes need greater management over their information. They require features like formal publishing processes and the ability to search for and aggregate content from multiple data stores and file formats. For this scenario, SharePoint Portal Server 2001 is recommended.

When organizations offer SharePoint Team Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2001, they can address the information-sharing challenges for both the large and small groups within their enterprise. Together, the SharePoint technologies give users the ability to organize information, readily access that information, manage documents, and enable efficient collaboration—all in a familiar, browser-based and Microsoft Office–integrated environment.

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