Chapter 1. Overview of SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the Internet. By offering a rich set of capabilities and enhanced functionality, SharePoint 2010 empowers users to connect, share, and work with information in new and much more efficient ways. For businesses of all types, it provides out-of-the-box solutions and tools to increase end users’ productivity through effective collaboration. Tools are also available to streamline and enrich solutions, and to interact with other systems to fulfill extended requirements and meet special needs of a business.

SharePoint 2010 offers scalability and flexibility to enable consolidation of business solutions by integrating them into the SharePoint platform. This decreases maintenance costs and the total cost of ownership (TCO), and at the same time allows administrators and information technology (IT) departments to gain better control over the technical platform and improve manageability.