SharePoint 2010 – Core functional areas

As we know it’s almost three years have passed with the introduction of SharePoint 2007. Now we have SharePoint 2010 which has been released on May last year. SharePoint 2010 is divided into 6 different core functional areas. Let’s have a glance at the diagram as given below

In SharePoint 2010, we have the above depicted 6 core functional areas. Let’s now jot down briefly on the different points as follows.

• Sites – managing sites.
In SharePoint 2010, they have enhanced the building and managing of internal and external sites. Here they have enhanced the content authoring/editing experiences, multi lingual support for websites, enhanced organizing and categorizing of content, compliance with Web standards , improved search via FAST Search , Web Analytics integration , improved personalization and enhanced cross browser support.

• Communities – enhanced social collaboration
As we know currently a large number of users are focused on Social networking even its been included in work places as well. It’s tough to see users without a Facebook or Twitter account, blogging etc. So we have observed a latest trend that every Software is released with a Social collaboration in mind. So here we have SharePoint 2010, create enhanced user profiles, tools for sharing blogs, wikis, RSS feeds etc, creation of communities, social tagging/book marking etc and enhanced My Sites.
• Content – manage documents/information/records

With SharePoint 2010, they have enhanced the overall content management. For an organization we have mainly two types of contents such as Documents/Information and Records. They have enhanced it to collaborative environment from a mere document storage.

• Search :
SharePoint 2010 has two levels of search: the built in functionality which is greatly improved from SharePoint 2007 and FAST Search, offering additional functionality.

• Insights: focused on Business Intelligence enhancements.
Here SharePoint 2010 comes with enhanced Business intelligence capabilities. Improved Excel services, BDC and integrated Performance Point Server capabilities.

• Composites: integrate business systems
SharePoint 2010 has introduced capabilities for integrating different business systems onto SharePoint, fetch or update data onto different databases from SharePoint platform itself. They have introduced the Business Connectivity Service (BCS).