Enterprise Portal Site Development with Sharepoint

About SharePoint Portal Server
SharePoint Portal Server enables corporations to develop an intelligent portal site that connects users, teams, and knowledge seamlessly so that people can take advantage of relevant information across business processes to help them work more efficiently. With flexible deployment options and management tools, SharePoint Portal Server provides an enterprise business solution that integrates information from various systems into one solution through single logon and enterprise application integration capabilities. The portal facilitates end-to-end collaboration by enabling organization, aggregation and search capabilities for people, teams and information. Users can find relevant information quickly through customization and personalization of portal content and layout. Organizations can target information, programs, and updates to audiences based on their organizational role, team membership, interest, security group, or any other membership criteria that can be defined.

Client
An electrical equipment manufacturer outsourced this total project to USE.

What the client wanted
Provide enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, simplifying how people find and share information across boundaries, realizing integration management and enabling better informed decisions. Each user can get various relevant content such as documents, materials and experiences about the work they need through the portal site.

To focus on their core business, they established a close relationship with USE to obtain professional IT services for long-term. 

Solution
System Architecture

Component description

• Microsoft's Windows Server 2003: As a robust, enterprise-ready networking platform, it delivers important system services to users including running environment of web service and web application—NET Framework, enterprises IT software infrastructure, user certification, security, etc...
• IIS（Internet Information Service）& Run-time libraries: Running on the Windows Server 2003 platform, together with ASP.NET from the .NET Run-time libraries, IIS6.0 provides information and portal visit service for both internal and external network.
• SQL Server 2000 is a full-featured relational database management system that offers a variety of administrative tools to ease the burdens of database development, maintenance and administration. All relevant data about portal site will be stored in the database which is managed by SQL Server 2000.
• SharePoint Portal Server & Windows SharePoint Service: provide a platform for enterprises to construct information services portal site. For more details about SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Service, please visit SharePoint Products and Technologies(www.microsoft.com/sharepoint)

The technologies and development tools

• Runtime Environment: Window Server 2003 + IIS 6.0 + .Net Framework + Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
• Source Code Management: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0
• Appendix software: Microsoft Office 2003 or later version, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
• Development tools: Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2003
• Programming language: C#, ASP.Net
• Database: SQL Server 2000

The benefits

• Realize information sharing and integration management
• Enable users to create, manage, and easily build their own SharePoint sites based on various requirement by different department
• Powerful information index function: Full-text searching
• Good extension to support customization and personalization as well as subsequent development