What is SharePoint?

Benefits of SharePoint: Increase Organization Productivity. How it increase Organization Productivity? Most important ones in organization is people. Account People - maintain data in Excel. Sales People - maintain data in ppt. CEO - maintain data in emails. Technical people - maintain data in documents. Generally the account people send daily sales report data to Sales dept for verifying of the organization and there by granting approval from CEO through sales dept of the account data sent. One central point needs by all the people.Hence comes the word "SharePoint", where one can share data,communicate and collaborate (which is internet and intranet Site) in a seamless manner. SharePoint -> share + communicate + collaborate data SharePoint is a platform where different roles of people can share and collaborate data and customize as per one's own requirements through SharePoint API's. SharePoint Foundation - free edition. - Basic framework where SharePoint Server 2010 stands. SharePoint Server 2010- Paid edition. Hardware and Software Requirements: 1. 64 bit OS 2. 80 GB Hard disk and 4 GB Ram 3. Windows Server 2008 + R2 (64 bit) 4. Sql Server 2008 5. IIS 7.0 6. ASP.NET. 7. SharePoint Foundation 2010 8. SharePoint Server 2010