Microsoft Sharepoint 2010

Below are some new features/improvements available in MSP 2010

·         Improved Records Management and Digital Asset Management.

·         Advanced Routing – SP System determines which library/folder the new submitted document should be saved based on the associated meta-data.

·         Document Set – Allows grouping of multiple items in order to consolidate them. For example: documents related to one project can be grouped.

·         Search function has been improved with the features like ‘relevance improvement’, people search and FAST search.

·         Business processes improved

·         Chart Web part have been introduced as an aid to the data visualization.

·         Workflow designer has been improved.

·         Moving of the Workflow from test to production environment has been easy in 2010 which was not in 2007.

·         Export/Import from Visio 2010 is available. [Note: SP stores most of the contents in SQL DB instead of the file system]

·         Sharepoint 2010 is 64 bit means it requires 64-bit Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit SQL Server 2005/2008.

·         Service applications have taken place of Shared Service provider (SSP).

·         Sharepoint 2010 Support Major Browsers.

·         New Content related feature like Rich Media Management, Flexible Records Management and Content organizer

·         Tags, Tag Clouds, Tag Profile, Note board, recent activities, enterprise Wikis, ratings and Keyword suggestion are new community features.

·         Business connectivity services (BCS), Visio services and Access services are introduced as composite(mash-up) features. These services help in pulling data from different sources and combining it in a single place.