SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Internet. It allows people to work with other people, content and information, or with end of line business data with ease. They can use the rich, out-of-the-box set of integrated capabilities in the SharePoint 2010 platform.

These capabilities can also be customised to address specific business needs, and integrate them with other products and solutions. Employees, customers, and business partners can now work with the platform, since using the same set of capabilities and tools, companies can now deploy SharePoint 2010 both inside the enterprise (intranets) and outside the firewall (extranets, and the internet.)

SharePoint 2010 allows companies to:

• Rapidly respond to business needs:
  SharePoint 2010 offers the tools and capabilities for end users, advanced users and professional developers to design and create business solutions that can be integrated with existing company tools, processes and data.
  

• Deliver the best productivity experience:
  SharePoint 2010 lets people work together in ways that are most effective to them, whether through the PC, browser or a mobile decide, SharePoint 2010 offers them an intuitive and familiar user experience. SharePoint 2010's capabilities are significantly enhanced by the way in which SharePoint 2010 works with Microsoft Office 2010, letting people increase productivity while using familiar products and tools.
  

• Cut costs with a unified infrastructure:
  SharePoint 2010 offers enterprise-scale manageability and availability. Whether a company is deploying the platform on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint 2010 lowers the total cost of ownership by offering an integrated set of features. SharePoint 2010 also helps companies consolidate their business-productivity solutions on top of the SharePoint Server, then allowing companies to reduce costs related to training, infrastructure management and maintenance.

SharePoint 2010 helps people to work together in new and effective ways, with a rich set of six integrated capabilities areas.