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SharePoint 2010 Sites: Collaborate Across Organizations

As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Sites provides portal and collaboration capabilities across intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. SharePoint 2010 brings users together to share information, data, and expertise across organizations. It offers great usability, personalized experiences, and a single infrastructure that saves valuable time and dollars.

Ensure Broad Adoption
Great usability is the key to broad adoption. A new Fluent UI, an enhanced mobile experience, cross-browser support, ​and built-in accessibility standards make it easy and rewarding for anyone to use SharePoint 2010.

Deliver Personalized Experiences
Features such as My Sites, user tagging, content targeting, and multilingual support allow users to create individualized experiences. People can find, use, and share information and contacts easily and naturally.

Reduce Costs and Complexity
SharePoint 2010 saves organizations time and money with a unified infrastructure that is manageable and scalable. IT professionals can centrally manage and monitor sites, integrate applications, and reuse popular solutions via web parts and templates. Deployment can be on-premises or in the cloud with Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services.

Featured Functionality

• The Fluent User Interface - With SharePoint 2010, users are able to quickly and easily find and use relevant features with a new contextual ribbon and breadcrumb navigation, preview edits and additions as changes are made, and select and act against multiple files at once.
• Out-of-Box Web Parts - SharePoint 2010 offers users a wide array of useful out-of-box web parts; including calendar, tasks, lists, and links.  Users can easily add web parts anywhere within an intranet or extranet site using simple point-and-click functionality.
• Microsoft Office Integration & Web Applications - Users benefit from a seamless integration with productivity tools they use most; including Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint, and are able to view and edit documents directly over the internet with Office 2010 web applications and a valid Office 2010 license. 
• Mobile Connectivity & Cross-Browser Support - With SharePoint 2010, all sites and content can be accessed and rendered on mobile devices.  SharePoint 2010 also offers improved cross-browser support, including Safari and Firefox, as well as a host of micro-browsers. 
• Offline Interaction