• SharePoint is an enterprise information portal, from Microsoft, that can be configured to run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites.
• SharePoint is the fastest-growing product in the history of Microsoft.
• Over 75 million licenses of SharePoint have been sold worldwide.
• SharePoint is listed, by Forrester, as the number 1 portal product.
• SharePoint is positioned as a leader within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals products.
• Over 400 case studies have been published on SharePoint.

SharePoint is a web-based collaboration and document management platform from Microsoft that can be used to host web sites that access shared workspaces and documents, as well as specialized applications like wikis and blogs from a browser. SharePoint is not intended to replace a full file server. Instead, it is targeted as a collaborative workspace, a tool for the management and automation of business processes, and a platform for social networking. Microsoft markets this as Collaboration, Processes, and People. SharePoint interface is through a web interface, such as a task list or discussion pane. SharePoint sites are actually ASP.NET 2.0 applications, which are served using IIS and use a SQL Server database as a data storage backend. All site content data is stored within a SQL Server database called WSS_Content.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which is a superset of WSS, allows people, teams and expertise to connect and collaborate. A SharePoint enterprise portal is composed of both SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services, with SharePoint being built upon WSS. WSS is typically used by small teams, projects and companies. Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server 2007,aka MOSS 2007 , is complete integrated server platform that aims to provide Collaboration , Web Content Management , Enterprise Portal and Enterprise Search as well as Shared Business Processes and Shared business intelligence dashboarding to individuals, teams and projects within a medium to large company wide enterprise portal.