Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition (Includes Software Assurance)

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition includes the following functionality groupings:

• Collaboration: End users can create content from their preferred web browser or from desktop applications such as Microsoft Word. Automated versioning and workflows, document check-out, and sophisticated access controls help teams work on shared documents with minimal confusion and misunderstanding.
• Enterprise Content Management: Organisations can manage their content through the entire content life cycle - from creation through editing, collaboration, and approval, to long-term retention or final expiration - on a single unified platform. Microsoft SharePoint can also help implement and automate compliance with information management and data security policies.
• Enterprise Search: The search infrastructure combines federated search, relevance, refinement, and social cues to speed up search and help people find the information and contacts they need.
• Portals: Organisations can build and maintain multiple content portals on a single Microsoft SharePoint installation, with each portal customised for a particular business activity or organisational stakeholder. For example, an organisation could build an enterprise intranet portal for all employees and a divisional portal site for particular departments.
• Business Forms and Processes: The Enterprise edition provides many features for integrating and streamlining business processes. For example, Microsoft SharePoint's Workflows feature can streamline common business processes, such as project approval or document review, by managing and tracking the tasks involved with those processes.
• Business Intelligence: Business intelligence is a set of methodologies and technologies that takes information stored in enterprise systems, provides structure and context, and puts it into the hands of the people who need it to make informed decisions. With the Enterprise edition and the appropriate software or database connectors, organisations can make hidden data visible to decision makers and other employees.

Service Pack 1 includes new and previously released security, performance, and stability updates for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, including support for Microsoft SQL Server 2011.

The Standard and Enterprise editions of Microsoft SharePoint Server have identical installation media. The product key entered in the setup process determines the features that are available for use.

Software Assurance

Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.