Hey guys, I'm looking at MOSS for work related reasons, but I can't really say I know anything about it.
What is it actually useful for? I'm finding it hard to extract a good idea of what its good for from reading stuff online. I think it's possibly overkill for what we're going to be using it for.
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What is it you're wanting an application to do?
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What is it you're wanting an application to do?
The reason it has been suggested to us, is for use with a scanning solution. So we can distribute images of documents from the post room to appropriate departments electronically (and archive them). I can't see us actually using Office documents with it, or doing collaboration. It's not clear to me why we're having it, other than to spend money.
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Collaboration Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.
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Portals Create a personal MySite portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user’s profile.
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Enterprise Search Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content in business applications.
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Enterprise Content Management Create and manage documents, records, and Web content.
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Business Process and Forms Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
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Business Intelligence Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.
Collaboration Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.
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Portals Create a personal MySite portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user’s profile.
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Enterprise Search Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content in business applications.
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Enterprise Content Management Create and manage documents, records, and Web content.
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Business Process and Forms Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
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Business Intelligence Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.
Collaboration on some images? No.
No to Portals.
Search would be useful if stuff is tagged properly, but, everything should end up in its own departments anyway.
Content management, not sure.
Business Process might be useful, if it can be used for tasks associated with the documents, but we already obviously have systems for that.
Report making will be very good.
Anyway. Nothing is certain and there should be more documentation to come concerning the project. Just wondering what its good at/for.
It sounds like you need Sharepoint Services 3.0 (a free product used to facilitate collaboration in a workgroup, small business, or department level in a larger company). It should let you do your document distribution and management, and it's free.
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007 (MOSS) is a paid product that extends the features of Sharepoint Services to centralizing the features across an entrerprise environment. It gives you a portal, and that portal links you to various subsites you create for departments, projects, and personal sites. It's an awesome product, but it takes a LOT of time, training, and hardware to implement correctly.
Be warned, this product is not for the meek. It's fairly intuitive, but I spent a full week in training at MS and it was a week PACKED with info. You can get the basic stuff running easily enough, but if you want to really make the product work for you, it takes a lot of work.
BTW, if you want to see what Sharepoint can really do, check out http://www.hawaiianair.com/ - they run MOSS 2k7 exclusively.
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007 (MOSS) is a paid product that extends the features of Sharepoint Services to centralizing the features across an entrerprise environment. It gives you a portal, and that portal links you to various subsites you create for departments, projects, and personal sites. It's an awesome product, but it takes a LOT of time, training, and hardware to implement correctly.
Be warned, this product is not for the meek. It's fairly intuitive, but I spent a full week in training at MS and it was a week PACKED with info. You can get the basic stuff running easily enough, but if you want to really make the product work for you, it takes a lot of work.
BTW, if you want to see what Sharepoint can really do, check out http://www.hawaiianair.com/ - they run MOSS 2k7 exclusively.
Thanks a lot Illy! I think MOSS is overkill, and will never get maintained properly. They must be talking about WSS (Windows Sharepoint Services), the document is fairly vague, mixed terminology etc. So, this clears things up a bit in my mind.
I am working on it for awhile, let me know what do you want to do exactly ?
All we will really be doing is document storage and retrieval, probably some document set storage too. MOSS definitely seems over kill.
my company does something close to that. we scan all our receipts into a database and the images are stored on our SAN.
we use a product called hummingbird. it has a web based interface and can be intigrated with office (we don't but im told it can be)
we use a product called hummingbird. it has a web based interface and can be intigrated with office (we don't but im told it can be)
Well, i highly recommend you to read Sharepoint 2007 unleashed or Sharepoint 2003 unleashed.
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