SharePoint WSRP Producer

Use the NetUnity SharePoint WSRP Producer to integrate Microsoft SharePoint content into any WSRP-enabled enterprise portal. View and manage SharePoint documents and lists and efficiently perform searches on SharePoint content. The SharePoint WSRP Producer provides aggregated views, access and search to SharePoint content across organizational boundaries throughout the enterprise.

Improve IT Performance and Workgroup Efficiency

With a backlog of IT projects and IT requests, departments and business units are resorting to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and its no-charge counterpart - Window SharePoint Services (WSS) - to quickly setup, manage and collaborate on projects. Both solutions improve workgroup efficiency and lessen the burden on IT. As a consequence however, project content and collaterals are no longer easily accessible across departmental, business unit and organizational boundaries.

By using the NetUnity SharePoint WSRP Producer, the best of both worlds can be achieved by allowing IT to make some or all of this content accessible through the enterprise portal governed by corporate security policy while still maintaining workgroup autonomy and efficiency.

Document and List Integration

Central to SharePoint content management are highly customizable and flexible document and list content types used by workgroups to store and manage project related documents and data. Examples include Word and Excel documents, project schedule, task list and other related project documents and data.

The SharePoint WSRP Producer provides access to SharePoint's full lifecycle document and list management capabilities within the enterprise portal. These capabilities include:

• viewing, paging and grouping and documents and lists
• Ajax enabled sorting and filtering
• document uploading, check-out/check-in and version history
• editing document and list items
• modifying document and list meta data including searchable keywords
• creating and navigating document and list folders
• searching documents and lists by meta attributes or their content

SharePoint Content Search

The predominate solution recommended by portal vendors for searching SharePoint content within an enterprise portal is to export the content from SharePoint and import it into the enterprise portal content management system. The primary issue with this approach is it causes multiple copies of potentially out-of-sync content to exist into two separate systems not to mention wasted resources and duplication of effort.

With the NetUnity SharePoint Producer, SharePoint content resides at its source and is made easily searchable within the enterprise portal. The search capability provides the ability to search content specific to a document library or list or across entire SharePoint sites and webs.

Security Integration

The NetUnity SharePoint WSRP Producer relies on SharePoint to enforce access rights to the SharePoint content. Enterprise portal users attempting to access a specific SharePoint instance must be valid SharePoint users having login access to the SharePoint instance. This means that all security functionality associated with access rights, auditing and tracking changes to content are the same as the user having logged directly into SharePoint.

The SharePoint WSRP Producer established a connection to SharePoint as the appropriate SharePoint user, requests operations on their behalf and lets SharePoint perform its normal security and auditing functions.