"Essential SharePoint(R) 2007 "focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making, streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems. Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint deployment-showing exactly how to maximize business value and reduce project risk. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the unique needs of your business. Next, they address the operational support and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work-with special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can make or break your project. Learn how to:

• Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies
• Build SharePoint applications people want to use
• Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis
• Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable
• Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process
• Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services
• Organize and staff SharePoint support teams
• Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003

Whether you're a project manager, consultant, analyst, line-of-business executive, or developer, this book helps you align your SharePoint project with your business strategy-and deliver quantifiable results fast. PrefaceChapter 1 Your Collaboration Strategy: Ensuring Success
Chapter 2 Office SharePoint Server 2007: High-Impact CollaborationAcross the Extended Enterprise
Chapter 3 Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaborationand Solutions PlatformChapter 4 SharePoint Architecture FundamentalsChapter 5 Planning Your Information Architecture
Chapter 6 Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007: Upgrade or Rebuild?Chapter 7 Disaster Recovery PlanningChapter 9 Enterprise Content Management: Documents, Records, and Web
Chapter 10 Enterprise SearchChapter 11 Making Business Processes Work: Workflow and Forms
Chapter 12 Office 2007: Offline Options for MOSS 2007Chapter 13 Providing Business IntelligenceAppendix A SharePoint User Tasks
Appendix B OS/Browser/Office CompatibilityIndex