Portal sites connect your people to business critical information, expertise, and applications. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a world class Enterprise Portal platform that makes it easy to build and maintain portal sites for every aspect of your business.

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Connect your people to information and expertise

Quick, easy access to critical information and expertise means better decisions and more rigorous execution.

• A comprehensive portal framework makes it easy to build portal sites that meet the specific requirements of your audience. A flexible, highly scalable architecture supports personal, divisional, intranet, extranet, and Internet sites.
• Integrated web content management makes customizing site look-and-feel easy. Powerful authoring features simplify content contribution. Centrally managed site design, publishing and deployment capabilities seamlessly integrate cutting-edge web content management into the overall portal platform.
• Cutting-edge social networking technology makes finding and managing expertise easier than ever before.

Connect your people to key business applications

Consolidated access to existing business applications drives consistent performance of common business tasks. Streamlined development of new composite applications can lead to order of magnitude improvements in important business processes.

• A sophisticated application development environment shortens development time for highly customized business applications.
• A comprehensive application integration framework allows you to quickly assemble composite applications from existing systems.
• State-of-the-art application governance features provide fine-grained control over the application execution environment.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server delivers a rich development environment for assembling composite applications from services provided by line-of-business systems. View a larger image.

Connect your people to role-specific resources

Personalized information delivery increases the relevance and value of information.

• Audience targeting features allow information owners to decide how, when and where specific audiences consume their information.
• The My Site personal site pulls together summary views of personal information, providing full control over information "for me, by me, and about me."
• Personalized information rollup allows users to create customized summaries of important information in the portal.