With information work becoming so diverse and disconnected, the average information worker has found that locating, aggregating, collaborating and utilizing information with the most efficient methods available grows increasingly difficult and frustrating, if any workflow methods are available to them at all. With the introduction of SharePoint Products and Technologies many of these limitations are addressed and overcome; from simpler web-based interfaces accessible through a browser, unique tools built into familiar Office 2003 products that work directly with SharePoint, various collaboration and document management functions that are easily configured and ready to go and a fully customizable implementation built on the powerful and flexible .NET framework that has made Windows 2003 so much more than merely a file server.

The free add-on product of Windows SharePoint Services immediately offers many of these collaboration functions without impacting the organization's budget while the addition of SharePoint Portal Server provides an enterprise solution to connect together all the information in the network regardless of vendor. Other tools, namely Visual Studio .NET can add and customize functionality to the leveraging of SharePoint Products and Technologies in your environment to produce the most efficient system of information working your organization desires, allowing your information technologies currently available to work for you instead of you working on them.