With it's Document Management capabilities, Microsoft Office SharePoint provides a full-featured solution for managing business documents.

Most enterprises rely far too heavily on shared drives and e-mail as the primary mechanisms for storing and sharing enterprise documents. While these solutions work somewhat effectively when dealing with moderate volumes of documents, they struggle to scale to meet the evolving needs of most organisations. In today’s world, document volumes are growing exponentially, resulting in skyrocketing management costs and inability to find relevant information.

SharePoint Technologies responds to these challenges by delivering an integrated solution that extends document management to all employees. By recognising that a document’s lifecycle begins the moment it is created and does not end until it is destroyed, organisations can achieve wide adoption and enforcement of enterprise standards, resulting in decreased management costs and reduced corporate risk.

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Document Management offering helps organisations realise their document management goals by enabling appropriate policies - security, management, retention — at every step of the document’s life-cycle. A centralised repository improves information discovery and reuse of critical assets, empowering users to harness the organisation’s collective knowledge.

Effective Document management helps organisations reduce their overall document volumes while increasing the value of knowledge assets. When implemented effectively, document management eliminates the duplicate, outdated, and irrelevant documents to make way for improved access to an organization’s real intellectual capital and reusable assets.

MANAGE THE FULL LIFECYCLE OF ENTERPRISE DOCUMENTS
Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides an end-to-end solution for managing the full lifecycle of enterprise documents from creation through retention.

• Seamlessly Create and Collaborate on Documents
• Automate Document Lifecycles Through Workflow
• Retain and Expire Documents According to Policies

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 document management solution is uniquely positioned to help your organisation succeed with its document management goals. By providing robust features delivered via the unified Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform, you can extend document management capabilities to all employees, improving compliance with enterprise standards and delivering value to the business.