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SharePoint Foundation 2013 is the underlying software platform that delivers all the building-block functionality of SharePoint. That includes apps, web pages, websites, and alerts. SharePoint Foundation is licensed as a Windows Server component.
Service Applications In SharePoint 2013
- Access Service.
- Access Service 2010.
- App Management Service.
- Business Data Connectivity Service.
- Excel Services Application.
- Machine Translation Service.
- PerformancePoint Service.
- PowerPoint Automation Service.
Microsoft SharePoint Features and Benefits
- Multi-purpose functionality built in.
- Centralized administration.
- Customizable.
- Document management and collaboration.
- Site consolidation.
- Integration with your existing apps.
- Enhanced security.
- Ease of use and design assistance.
What is SharePoint in simple terms?
SharePoint is Microsoft’s premier collaborative server environment, providing tools for sharing documents and data across various organizations within a company’s network. SharePoint is most often used for the storing of version-controlled documents, such as Word documents and Excel worksheets.
Why do we need SharePoint?
It gives companies a way to automate business processes, track progress, and securely share information across departments (or even externally). Depending on a business, companies can use SharePoint as a document management system, collaboration software, intranet or extranet.
The predictability of cost and time to implement are why SharePoint Online and other cloud solutions are becoming so popular. They reduce complexity and provide a fixed and certain cost on a SharePoint platform that is guaranteed to follow best practices.