SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of services that improves organizational effectiveness by providing control over electronic content, accelerating shared processes, and facilitating better-informed decisions and information sharing. The Enterprise Edition includes all the services of the Standard Edition plus the following:
- Business process and forms: For streamlining forms-driven processes with easy-to-use XML-based electronic forms that integrate smoothly with existing systems; provides the same functionality available in Forms Server 2007.
- Business intelligence: For enabling every employee to share, control, and reuse business information in order to make better business decisions
The Standard and Enterprise editions of SharePoint Server have identical installation media. The product key entered in the setup process determines the features that are available for use.
This product includes a server license. Each user or device that accesses SharePoint Server Enterprise Edition must have two client access licenses (CALs), a Standard Edition User or Device CAL AND an Enterprise Edition User or Device CAL.
Installing this product requires a licence key and installation media. Within 14 days of placing your order, instructions for obtaining the licence key will be sent to your organisation's registered e-mail address and free installation media will be delivered to your organisation's registered address.
- Under the Software Assurance program, customers acquire the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of their coverage.
- Live, interactive business intelligence portals can assemble and display business information from disparate sources, using capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, key performance indicators, and business data connectivity technologies.
- With Excel Services running on SharePoint Server, users can create fully interactive, data-bound spreadsheets including charts, tables, and PivotTable views as part of a portal, dashboard, or business scorecard.
- The Report Center site facilitates report access and management, including a report library, a data connection library, and a dashboard template.
- The Business Data Catalog enables the display of and interaction with external data from backed line-of-business applications and also extends search capabilities to them.
Hardware:
- 2.5-GHz (or higher) processor
- 1 GB or more RAM; 2 GB recommended, required for server farm deployment
- 3 GB available hard-disk space
- 1024x768-pixel (or higher) display
- DVD drive, local or network-accessible
Software:
- Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Internet Explorer 6.0; Firefox 1.5; Mozilla 1.7; Netscape 8.1; Internet Explorer recommended for its ActiveX controls
Other:
- Connection speed of 100 Mbps required for farm deployment; 56 Kbps required for standalone installation
- For email notifications — Internet Simple Mail Transfer Protocol/Post Office Protocol 3 (SMTP/POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4), or MAPI-compliant messaging software
- For farm deployment — SQL Server 2000 with SP3a or later
- For some advanced features — SQL 2005 SP1 or later and SQL 2005 Analysis Services SP1 or later
