SharePoint 2010 Composites: Take Action with Managed Solutions
SharePoint Composites empowers business users to rapidly respond to a broad array of business needs with collaborative solutions of their own, without code, both on-premises or in the cloud, through a rich set of building blocks, tools, and self-service capabilities, while providing IT professionals with manageability and operational insights to ensure a stable platform and control over end-user
Rapidly Create No-Code Collaborative Solutions
Empower business users to rapidly and easily address a broad array of business needs using the browser, or to share their Office Access databases and Office Visio diagrams with others, while allowing advanced users to customize SharePoint with no-code tools in SharePoint Designer and Office InfoPath.
Unlock the Value of Enterprise Data
Allow your organization to interact with enterprise data directly within the SharePoint and Office experience, in both read and write modes. Users are able to work with enterprise data as easily as with SharePoint data, either offline or connected, or directly in the rich experience of Microsoft Office.
Maintain Control over End User Solutions
IT professionals can manage user solutions and define resource throttling controls on resource consumption on your server infrastructure, letting SharePoint take care of ensuring that solutions stay within your predefined limits. This allows them to maintain operational insight and a stable platform, whether online or on-premises.
Featured Functionality
- Access Services - Publish Access databases to SharePoint to share them with others. With Access Services, you can eliminate database versioning problems and simplify the deployment of Access forms and reports while reducing governance risks.
- Business Connectivity Services - With Business Connectivity Services, or BCS, you can extend the reach of enterprise data to everyone in the organization. Inable users to read and write back to these data sources as easily as if they were SharePoint lists. Allow users to interact with this data when disconnected or offline using Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, or SharePoint Workspace. Working offline with enterprise data has never been easier because BCS synchronizes the offline changes to the backend as soon as a user connects to the network.
- Browser-Based Customizations - From calendars and tasks to charts and enterprise data, SharePoint provides users with a rich set of building blocks to create collaborative solutions rapidly, directly on the browser. SharePoint can facilitate the work of non-technical information workers with a standard user interface, simplified commands on the Ribbon, Web edit, and out-of-box workflows and Web Parts for a variety of common scenarios.
- SharePoint Designer - Allow rich no-code customizations using the revamped user interface in SharePoint Designer. Create solutions more rapidly with its List and Content Type editors, association columns, reusable workflows, impersonation steps, XSLT templates, and external content types form BCS, among other new capabilities, without code. In addition, control when and how people can use SharePoint Designer with the new security and administration settings to keep you in control of your site.
- Human Workflows - Empower users to use out-of-box workflows for commong tasks such as approvals and reviews. In addition, allow users to create custom workflows in SharePoint Designer or in Visio Workflow Designer and manage these business process diagrams in a central Process Diagram Repository.
- Forms Services - Create rich forms to quickly and cost-effectively gather information. Create form-based SharePoint applications with Office InfoPath and take advantage of all the server improvements to create rich Web browser forms that can be more easily managed on the server, or build advanced forms that connect to line-of-business systems.
- Visio Services - Leverage one of the most popular diagramming tools in the world, Visio, directly on SharePoint. Share and publish your diagrams to SharePoint to create custom dashboards that connect to your data and can be refreshed almost in real-time.
- Sandboxed Solutions - Allow users to deploy custom code in the Sandbox, but you define the level of resources that those solutions can use. SharePoint can make sure that user solutions stay within your boundaries.