Introduction to sharepoint 2013

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 

Microsoft SharePoint is one of the biggest productivity frameworks released by Microsoft during the last 10 years. 

SharePoint 2013 is just one more step of a fabulous journey (that began in 2001) in the world of business productivity, collaboration, knowledge sharing, search technologies, enterprise social networking, and web content management.

From a developer’s perspective, SharePoint is a rich set of tools, classes, libraries, and controls that are useful for building custom solutions and apps focused on making business collaboration and enterprise social networking possible.

Main Benefits


Microsoft grouped the features and services provided by SharePoint 2013 into five main categories of

benefits: Share, Organize, Discover, Build, and Manage.

Share

SharePoint 2013 enables you to share ideas and content with others. For example, you can use SharePoint for storing and sharing documents, contacts, and tasks; organizing meetings; managing business processes; and more. When you share something with SharePoint, you can also put it in the social network of your colleagues, customers, partners, and contacts in general, regardless of whether they are on your corporate network, on Facebook, on Twitter, or elsewhere. Through SharePoint, people can discover what you shared, as well as share contents with you. Using the new social features of SharePoint 2013, you can keep track of what your colleagues are working on.

With SharePoint 2013 and the new Microsoft Office 2013, you can publish documents and content from any Office application, sharing them with people inside or outside your organization. You cantake advantage of these capabilities from your desktop computer as well as from any Internet-capable mobile device, such as Microsoft Surface and other tablets running Microsoft Windows 8 or RT, as well as smartphones based on the Windows Phone operating system or devices based on iOS.

Organize

Through SharePoint 2013, you can organize your projects and tasks, and even integrate SharePoint with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Project to keep your projects on track. The product will help you manage tasks, as well as their status and due dates. You will be able to keep your team connected, through specific team sites, which enable you and others to track meetings, share documents, store emails, and do whatever else is useful for your team collaboration.

Discover

With SharePoint 2013, you can search for content via a professional search engine, which can be customized for your needs.

Build

One of the most exciting new features of SharePoint 2013 is its apps-extensibility model. You can develop custom apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013, using the power of the cloud. You can design everything from business apps for the marketplace at large to a corporate catalog targeting your employees.

Manage

SharePoint 2013 gives you a mature, maintainable, and manageable environment, which can be hosted on-premises as well as in the cloud, using Microsoft Office 365. You can also keep some of your services and content on-premises while deploying others on Office 365, within a hybrid infrastructure.The new capabilities of Office 365 reduce the time to market for your solutions, allowing you to concentrate your resources and time on the project, the contents, and the custom features, rather than on the infrastructure under the cover.

Information courtesy :Microsoft SharePoint 2013:Developer Reference