Understanding SharePoint Portal Server Benefits

The history of the personal computer has presented many challenges to managing and accessing information for end users. In addition, since organizations began using the Internet, they have become increasingly interested in a single site that provides organized views of their corporate information. This concept is known as a portal. This portal concept has become an extremely powerful tool that allows users to aggregate content and applications from a variety of information sources, while at the same time providing meaningful sorting and classification of the knowledge. Simply stated, information can be logically consolidated such that users can utilize a standard Web browser to access a single Web ...

Get Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.