Microsoft SharePoint Server is an integrated suite of server capabilities that improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
SharePoint 2010 dramatically increases SharePoint's capabilities. SharePoint is now better at:
- Sites – with more types of sites and even more possibilities for configuration
- Communities – with built in blog and wiki templates, more community possibilities
- Content – still a power content provider for new more powerful possibilities
- Search – powerful basic search and optional FAST add-on, search the possibilities
- Insights – business data connectivity gives you possibilities to connect to any data source
- Composites – allow you to put together business solutions for all the possibilities
SharePoint 2010 is a great tool for exploring the possibilities!