6 pillars of MOSS

Before anyone starts to do / sell sharepoint. The person should understand the 6 pillars of MOSS.

1. Collaboration
2. Portal
3. Search
4. Content Management
5. Business Process
6. Business Intelligence

1. Collaboration
How does your organization share information ? In shared folder or riding on a custom built web page. With MOSS, you can have a better knowledge management by leverage on Wikis, Workspace, Forum and etc. These are out of the box feautes provided by MOSS.

2.Portal
Any enterprise should have a one corporate website to deliver information to the employee. Apart from the information delivering, MOSS can seamlessly integrate with various systems like SAP, oracle to make MOSS a one stop website for everything. For example, if you are using Oracle Siebel CRM to store your customer information, you dont have to login to Siebel system to see your customer list. You can view them from MOSS page.

3. Search
If you have tons of information and it is not accessable, these information will become useless. It is important to be able to search information with just a few clicks. And this feature is provided out of the box from MOSS.

4. Content Management
In this fast pace environment, how fast you response to the opportunity is the key differentiator for your competitors. With MOSS you can manage your website content as easy as a few clicks.

5. Business Process
Typical enterprise environment will need forms submission and workflow for approval. MOSS is built to integrate with various MSFT office products including Infopath, which allows you to fill in information and ready for submission. And form submission, workflow (both standard and customized build) can be activated to perform the tasks that is needed. For example, for leave application, employee can fill in the pre-designed form in infopath. After the form is submitted, approval workflow can be triggered for manager approval.

6. Business Intelligence
How do you capitalize your data is to gain a bigger market share is very important. With MOSS, you can integrate with SQL Reporting services easily (SSRS), you prepare report in various formats. On top of that you can also leverage on the datamining feature in SSRS.