BRAINSTORM
Is Information in your Travel Business?
ü HARD TO FIND
ü DIFFICULT TO SHARE WITH OTHERS
ü SCATTERED ACROSS MANY STORES – (EMAILS, FILE SHARE, ATTACHMENTS, MY DOCUMENTS)
Does this sound like your Travel Business?
Ø Employees get 50-75% of their relevant information directly from other people.
Ø More than 80% of enterprise's digitized information resides in individual hard drives and in personal files.
Ø Individuals hold the key to the knowledge economy and most of it is lost when they leave the enterprise.
Does Your Travel Business have the following?
Ø Sales Division Portal
Ø R&D Community
Ø Employee Self Service Portal
Ø Team ‘ABC’ Site OR Project ‘X’ Site
Ø Customer Service Site
Ø Knowledge Management Portal
Ø Business Intelligence Dashboards
Ø Extranet Collaboration Site
Ø Issue Tracking System
Ø B2B Supply Chain News & Alerts
Ø Regulatory Compliance Repository
Ø Corporate Web Presence
Ø Business Application Collaboration
Ø Electronic Marketing Group Campaigns
Ø Lead Management
Ø Opportunity Management
Thus when your organization needs application collaboration, travel content management features, implementation of travel related business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes you can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and travel related data, participate in forms-driven travel business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of travel business data.
What is MOSS 2007?
MOSS 2007 is a cohesive integration of business intelligence tools established by Microsoft to ease collaboration by using specialized websites, or portals. These portals can host documents, files, and even run programs and services such as Blogs and Wikis. Multiple users can be granted access to these portals and to all or some of the items hosted there. Users can then log in and make changes directly to these items in a centralized space.
The business intelligence tools offered by SharePoint are of particular use to companies that have employees in multiple offices around the world or employees that telecommute, but it can also be used within a single location when collaboration on a single document is critical.
The Six Pillars of MOSS 2007
The biggest selling point for MOSS 2007 when it comes to its business intelligence tools is that it enables easy collaboration between users, whether they are in a single office or located around the world. It is commonly accepted that the MOSS 2007 system is based on six pillars:
ü Business intelligence
ü Collaboration
ü Portals
ü Enterprise search
ü Enterprise content management
ü Business processes and forms
These pillars work together to create a comprehensive system of business intelligence tools that enables an entire enterprise to work together as a team. MOSS 2007 is extremely useful to any business that has to collaborate with its employees via documents or e-mail, printed or voice communication. It hosts all of this information in a single space and allows for information gathering and updates without major hassles. SharePoint is installed quickly and easily on a server and replaces many free utilities (Joomla or Mambo, for example).
In addition, Office SharePoint Server 2007 is designed to work effectively with other programs, servers, and technologies in the 2007 Office release. For example, in many 2007 Office release programs, you can initiate or participate in workflows, which are the automated movements of documents or items through specific sequences of actions or tasks that are related to a business process, such as the approval process for an expense report.
The following list offers examples of how specific 2007 Office release programs work with Office SharePoint Server 2007:
Ø Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Create a library of PowerPoint slides that can be shared with other users on an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site.
Ø Microsoft Office Access 2007 Take a SharePoint list offline and use the reporting features in Office Access 2007 to view the data and create reports while traveling. Forms and reports that use the SharePoint list are fully interactive — and Office Access 2007 can later synchronize the local list with the online list when you bring your laptop back online.
Ø Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Take document libraries offline. SharePoint folders are displayed just as other Outlook folders are.
Ø Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Design browser-compatible form templates, publish them to an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, and enable them for use in a Web browser.
Ø Microsoft Office Excel 2007 saves worksheets on a SharePoint site so that users can access them by using a browser. You can use these worksheets to maintain and efficiently share one central, up-to-date version, while helping to protect any proprietary information, such as financial models, that is embedded in the worksheet.
Ø Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Create and customize Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites and workflows. Create your own master pages and content pages, so that your site has a consistent look and feel, or customize sites by using the latest ASP.NET technology, established Web standards such as Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) code, and cascading style sheets.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Capabilities
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.
ü Collaboration Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of Wikis and Blogs.
ü Portals create a personal My Site portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user’s profile.
ü Enterprise Search Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content in business applications.
ü Enterprise Content Management Create and manage documents, records, and Web content.
ü Business Process and Forms Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
ü Business Intelligence Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions
Conclusion
Thus Office SharePoint Server 2007(MOSS) helps in following
Ø Centralize Information Store
Ø Improve organization and information sharing in teams
Ø Shared internally and on Internet
Ø Provide access to business partners
Ø SharePoint serves as your own Intranet in a box
Ø MOSS is web based and is easy to use
Ø MOSS is a part of Windows Server 2003
Ø MOSS is Cost effective – Its on companies own server / hosted by self
MOSS 2007 provides a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience. Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities. Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content. Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value. Simplify organization-wide access to structured and unstructured information across disparate systems. Connect people with information and expertise. Accelerate business processes and maintain control of your electronic forms environment. Share business data while preserving its consistency and helping to protect sensitive information. Facilitate better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location. Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.
Author - Ashish Kumar Gupta
Business Analyst – Pre Sales
Travel Business Solution Group
InterGlobe Technologies Limited
ashish.gupta1@igt.in | http://www.interglobetechnologies.com