Executive Summary

Contributing Analysts: Paul DeGroot, Greg DeMichillie, Rob Helm, and Matt Rosoff

Enhancements in SharePoint Server 2007 and its Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 platform could drive upgrades and expand adoption by targeting new business scenarios. SharePoint Server (formerly SharePoint Portal Server) has been Microsoft’s strategic platform for corporate portals, Web sites that provide an entry point to corporate information and applications. Its portal features have gotten incremental improvements, but it also delivers new features for managing corporate records, publishing Web content, and creating business intelligence applications. WSS 3.0, the platform on which SharePoint Server 2007 is built, includes better features for organizing and storing documents and data, and new blog and wiki features that could help workers informally exchange ideas and compile information.

Together, the new features of WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 could expand the product line’s installed base and offer new opportunities for ISVs and systems integrators. However, they will also threaten entrenched enterprise content management and business intelligence players, such as EMC and Hyperion.