SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and its usage varies substantially among organizations.
SharePoint is Microsoft's collaboration platform, similar to Google Drive, yet much more. It's a place where team members can communicate, exchange data, and work together; a shared file repository, blog, web content management system, and an intranet.
Some years ago, cutting-edge Microsoft collaboration had two components: Exchange, which powered email and shared calendars, and network file drives. These drives, which you might remember had drive letters such as "S" and "X," housed files your whole team could access, but only one person could edit them at a time. As a workaround, you could copy them to your local machine and edit there. This would sometimes lead to confusion, lots of overwriting, and cryptic file names.
Microsoft created SharePoint, which provided a few advantages:
In a clever move, Microsoft also retained the old file drive concept, meaning you could open an Excel file from your "X" drive, modify it, then save it, just as before. However, in the background, SharePoint would check the file out for you, then check it back in and version it for you. These features still exist and work well, but SharePoint is more than just a fancy file drive today.
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