MicroSoft SharePoint Team Services:
SharePoint Team Services is a team Web site solution that is
designed to significantly improve the way your team manages
information and activities. Now you can easily have a site that
serves as the central repository of all project
information—documents, contacts, tasks, discussions, and much more.
SharePoint Team Services is the easiest way for any type of team
or workgroup to use the Web to share information. All it takes is a
Web browser and access to a corporate network or the Internet. Once
the site is launched, team members can add, edit, and delete
information using their Web browsers. Automatic hyperlink management
maintains links to new material, while templates protect the overall
navigational structure, individual page layouts, and design
elements.
SharePoint Team Services opens the door to seamless communication
and efficient collaboration with a wide range of easy-to-use
features. The Document Library feature of SharePoint Team Services
provides a single location for storing all your team's work.
Transferring documents to the library is simple—it just takes a Web
browser. And when you assign templates to your document libraries,
you guarantee that all documents are consistent and compatible.
Powerful text-based search and a familiar folder view make it easy
to find documents in the SharePoint team Web site library.
SharePoint Team Services helps team members share ideas through
subscriptions and notifications that alert everyone to Web site
changes. Inline document discussions make it easy to collaborate on
specific deliverables without altering original documents.
Discussion boards serve as a central forum for specific topics and
surveys, which are a useful way to get targeted responses to key
issues.
Once you've launched a SharePoint Team Services-based Web site, a
simple e-mail invitation serves to register team members to the
site, and you can assign different permission levels to each member
depending on their role. Date, time, and author stamping makes it
easy to track member participation. Web-based administration lets
you manage user accounts quickly and simply from within the browser.