Is an integrated suite of server applications that improves organizational effectiveness by helping organizations and their employees:

• Derive increased business value from information assets by being able to efficiently find, share, and manage information across boundaries.
• Accelerate internal and external shared business processes through optimized interaction of people, business data, and processes.
• Make better-informed decisions through simplified, enterprise-wide access to one consistent version of information.
• Share business information with greater confidence through more secure integration of members from external organizations.
• Give IT professionals a single, integrated, extensible platform for managing intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the organization.