“This stuff used to be really hard and we’ve made it so that if you can administer a SharePoint farm, you can do this.” — Fried

It has been demonstrated statistically that whilst use of SharePoint for file sharing at the work group or departmental level is widespread in organisations, deployments where usage of SharePoint is enterprise standard and embedded in core business processes, are far less common.

SharePoint is really a collection of capabilities. At its heart, it is a Portal that exposes information customized for a particular user. It has extended functionality to quickly build features inside this portal to enable Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Search. It has ventured into Social Computing and Collaboration by creating shared work spaces, supporting blogs and wikis and allowing people search. With the inclusion of PerformancePoint in its licensing, it also becomes a strong Business Intelligence offering, though it will require expanded knowledge of that capability to implement. It starts to break down when pushed to work as a Business Process Management Suite or Application framework.

FAST ESP is an enterprise search engine that provides an extensive content processing and indexing functionalities. FAST search for SharePoint is going to deliver high end search capabilities to enterprises. The ease of use of SharePoint Server with FAST Search high-end filtering and navigation features creates a new enterprise search, collaboration, and publishing solution.

The Project and Requirements Form does not have to be complex, just gathering the basic information needed. In most cases, the business problem being addressed and the proposed solution are the initial pieces of information gathered. Follow along as we create this form and publish it to a site for use by anyone.

What that really means is that InfoPath is a powerful set of tools that you can use to accomplish all of those things and more. When you combine InfoPath, MOSS 2007 (Enterprise), and SharePoint Designer, you have the ability to create solutions quickly and without writing any code.