Collaboration tools: Microsoft SharePoint & Enterprise Project management
ITS YaleShareITS YaleShare is a web-based collaborative work space for departments and teams to share information. It uses Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, which will run on most web browsers and on Macs. Typical users share and collaborate on documents, use calendars and discussion boards, share announcements and links, manage meeting agendas and task lists. SharePoint integrates well with Microsoft Office. If you have questions please contact collaborate@yale.edu. Classes*v2 as a collaboration toolITS also offers Classes*v2 as a collaboration tool. Classes*v2 may be a better collaboration choice for academic groups with members already familiar with Classes*v2 for classroom support or discussions. Classes*v2 offers discussion support, document sharing, and other tools to support group work. However, Classes*v2 does not offer some of the advanced collaboration features of SharePoint, and does not offer the tight integration with Microsoft Project and the coming collaboration features of the new Microsoft Office 2007, due to be released in the first quarter of 2007. The continued development of Classes *v2 is influenced by suggestions from faculty. We encourage communication by email to classes2@yale.edu.
Project ServerMicrosoft Enterprise Project Management extends the functionality of Microsoft Project 2003. Project Managers typically create project plans using Microsoft Project. These plans are static - they sit on the Project Manager's computer waiting for that one person to update the entire plan. Enterprise Project Management extends the project plan to the web making the content dynamic. Project resources (people) can log in to the plans they are assigned to, see their tasks, report work completed and time unavailable. This reduces the time a single project manager has to spend on the local plan on their one computer. A further benefit is the shared resource reporting which allows project managers to quickly assess which resources are available across large shared resource pools. Collaboration features of SharePoint
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