SharePoint
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Tools like SharePoint are not only a great collaboration and productivity tool for users, it can also be a very low cost alternative to developing software applications in traditional .NET, Java or other languages. You may not have realized it, but there's a free version of SharePoint sitting right there inside your Windows 2003 or 2008 Server ready for you to use, at zero additional cost.
Sarah Haase, Collaboration Manager for SharePoint at BestBuy.com, touches on one of the central SharePoint questions most IT organizations deal with – how to administer and govern.
SharePoint can of course provide document storage and does bring some added features beyond a file server, but if you're paying attention to the Excel files being shipped around your business network and email system, then you're likely very close to a business process that could be much better supported by SharePoint's workflow and document management capabilities.
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