Determining Your SharePoint Features and Functionality

Abstract

In this chapter, I provide an overview of the key SharePoint functional capabilities at a macro-level: collaboration, social computing, portals, search, records management, business intelligence, and composite applications. I devote my primary focus on the functional capabilities in SharePoint to discussing those new capabilities introduced in SharePoint 2013. From there, I offer strategies that you can use to plan for SharePoint features, and I share approaches that you might take to limit the SharePoint features you make available. Finally, I provide you with considerations on howyou can map SharePoint functional capabilities to business value, and howyou can plan to build these features onto each other and to enable additional features over time.