In times when
business volatility is on the rise and
time-to-market is key, SharePoint 2010
enables all users (end users, power
users, designers, and professional
developers), to customize the out-of-box
platform and deploy solutions that will
enable them to address specific business
needs more quickly and more effectively.
SharePoint 2010 includes tools and
capabilities that allow businesses to
maximize the impact of existing
investments and knowledge, and to
provide all users with bi-directional
interaction with line-of-business data.
These tools and capabilities make it
possible to shorten the time between
recognizing a business need and
delivering a business productivity
solution to address it.
In alignment with
SharePoint’s approach of doing more with
no additional resources, investments
like integration with Visual Studio 2010
will enable customers to rely on
existing programming expertise to enrich
the SharePoint platform and increase the
quality and ROI on their investments.
With SharePoint 2010, software
developers get a rich set of resources,
including SDK documentation and product
features such as the developer dashboard
page.
A major advancement
in SharePoint is allowing users,
regardless of their technical expertise,
to interact with line-of-business data,
surface it in their SharePoint sites,
analyze it, and make updates to be
reflected in the external data source
itself, such as ERP and CRM systems.
Composite SolutionsEnabling users to
address specific business and
collaboration needs, while relieving IT
from the need to be involved all changes
to the platform, is made possible
through a rich set of tools and features
that allow users to create no-code
solutions and to deploy those solutions
in an easy and secure manner.
SharePoint 2010
provides new features for building
business collaboration applications,
including Silverlight hosting for user
interfaces, LINQ to SharePoint, Client
Object Model, BCS, data relationships,
and large list scalability. Using BCS,
developers now can integrate
line-of-business data in SharePoint and
Office Client solutions easily and with
read/write capability.