Overview of SharePoint

Let’s Learn about SharePoint:

1. What is Sharepoint
   
   SharePoint, a web application platform is a part of Microsoft. Office server family.
   
   
2. When was it launched?
   
   It was launched in 2001.
   
   
3. What are the various functions that SharePoint combines?
   
   Intranet, extranet, content management, document management, personal cloud, enterprise social networking, enterprise search, business intelligence, management, web, and an enterprise application store.

Let’s see some more interesting information about SharePoint.

SharePoint in NOT a program, it’s a platform,

It can be broadly classified into 6 different areas, let’s take a look:

• Sites: Organizations use SharePoint to create multiple websites.
  
  
• Communities: Helps you work, collaborate, communicate with other people.
  
  
• Content: You can use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from almost any device. 
  
  
• Search: super-smart search engine built into SharePoint, lets you search not only through the huge amount of data but also help to find people on the SharePoint in a much secured manner.
  
  
• Insights: SharePoint assist in presenting the immense data, to the user in the form of graphs, dashboards, reports etc.. in more sensible way.
  
  
• Composites: SharePoint can be customized to a great extend (you need not be a coder), it lets you create workflows and built apps on top of it. 

Now to put it in a nutshell:

It allows you to create websites, create communities and work with different people.

Store and organize your contents, search that content, present /analyse content in more sensible manner, and helps you customise and built applications on top of it, and therefore Sharepoint is PLATFORM , that allows you to built different solutions to different problems.