The majority of businesses today use some form of Microsoft software, whether it is in differing versions of the Windows operating system or MS’ highly popular Office suite.
In 2003, Microsoft introduced a new dimension to business intelligence and created the first SharePoint software. SharePoint, in essence, offers a single place for document and web management systems, allowing multiple workers to pursue different tasks, at the same time from one interface, instead of using multiple interfaces to accomplish the same workload.
Along with the changes to Office in 2007, SharePoint also changed some of its features, implementing a new ribbon style interface that would help catalog often used features, such as reviewing, spell check and media inserts, into easily accessible groups. In the newest version of the
SharePoint Foundation 2010, some of the features remained the same, while others were greatly enhanced.
