SharePoint Versions & Implementations

SharePoint Versions	Implementations
MOSS 2007	My Site Personal site - Which allows users to provide their personal information           User profiles and profile store - allows each user to store profile information           Audience Targeting - Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences            InfoPath forms services – Is a server technology that makes it possible for people to fill out forms in a Web browser. By managing forms in a central location, you can streamline business processes and improve relations with customers, partners, and suppliers.            Business Data Catalog(BDC) - Business Data Catalog tightly integrates external data into the Office SharePoint Server 2007 user experience, providing access to external data residing within backed LOB applications, and enabling the display of and interaction with external data through a set of Business Data Web Parts
2010	New User Interface including Ribbon – Ribbon UI is available in the SharePoint 2010 which brings the SharePoint user experience much more aligned with other office applications. You can see the Ribbon in the top area of any page in the SharePoint 2010 website           Sandboxed Solutions - Sandboxed Solutions also called as User Solutions, is a new concept which allows site collection administrators to deploy solutions at the site collection level which is safe to run and not affect the other site collections and web applications running on the same farm            Windows PowerShell 2.0 – Used in performing command-line administrative tasks             Business Connectivity Services(BCS) - Provides read/write access to external data from line-of-business (LOB) systems, web services, databases, and other external systems within Microsoft SharePoint 2010            Social networking features – New social features like Tags, Ratings, Tag cloud & Newsfeed etc. are available out-of-box.            Visio Services - Which allow you to share data linked diagrams in real time. Using Visio Services, you can connect to backend, visualize the data and publish the Visio diagram into your SharePoint site            Rich & Improved Theming – It provides built-in office-style themes just like in Word and PowerPoint. You can choose and apply a theme to change the look and feel of the web site as per the selected theme
2013	Content Management - Improved features for web content management that simplify how you design publishing sites and enhance the authoring and publishing processes of your organization            Drag & Drop Uploads - Use this feature when moving one or more documents. You can drag and drop documents from one folder to another, one library to another and from windows explorer to the library.           One-Drive for Business - OneDrive for Business is the default document library in a user's My Sites in SharePoint Server 2013 or SharePoint Online. The contents of this library can optionally be synchronized with one or more of the user's computers or devices.                   Translation Services - Supports in translating content to other languages. In SharePoint 2013 content can be translated automatically using Microsoft Translation Services in the cloud, can be exported to an XLIFF package, send it over to a Translation Agency and, once translated, imported back into SharePoint           Web Content Management - Microsoft improved the video upload process for content authors, and improved image display and performance of a site with its image renditions feature, which reduces the size of an image file that is downloaded to the client            SharePoint Quizzes -  Having surveys to record user responses to campaigns that a business may hold, SharePoint 2013 now utilizes SharePoint quizzes. This is in part to answer issues concerning how to store learning material, record users’ knowledge and assessment. This I believe is closely linked to Education Services, so that students can be set quizzes to assess coursework           Work Management Service -  The Work Management Service Application provides functionality to aggregate tasks to a central location. The service allows users to aggregate and synchronize tasks between multiple environments, such as Project Server, Exchange and SharePoint            Mobile Features -  There are many new opportunities available for mobile devices; showing contemporary views of SharePoint on the devices including HTML5 view support and a compatible UI that works on most mobile devices.