SharePoint Products and Technologies facilitate collaboration within an organization and with partners and customers. Using the combined collaboration features of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, users in your organization can easily create, manage, and build their own collaborative Web sites and make them available throughout the organization.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is used to build enterprise-level portal sites that are part of the Microsoft Office System. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is built on top of Windows SharePoint Services and complements Windows SharePoint Services by adding manageability features that have been designed to assist users in navigating through vast amounts of information and documents. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 also supplies additional functionality to enhance portal sites using indexing, searching, audience targeting, and single sign-on.  In addition to the features of Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 includes the following features:

• News and Topics
• My Site, with personal and public views
• Information targeted to specific audiences
• Powerful indexing and searching across file shares, Web servers, secure Web servers, Exchange Public Folders, and SharePoint sites
• Alerts that notify you when changes are made to relevant information, documents, or applications
• Single sign-on for enterprise application integration