How Organizations Use SharePoint
SharePoint is designed to help organizations manage their documents and files, as well as to enable users to collaborate with one another. Although every organization with a network already has tools in place (file shares, shared directories, intranets) to store files and share information, SharePoint offers more powerful and flexible tools than the average company had previously. For example, SharePoint allows the creation of document libraries that can store not only the documents uploaded to the library, but also information about the documents (called metadata) in special columns that can be added to the libraries. Access to this information can be quite rigidly controlled so that some users can only read ...
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