Through the advance of the web technologies and the need of the state and private organizations  and companies to develop the inter-organizational functions and activities to out of the organization and provision of the simple and flexible solutions for the management of the human resources, documents, vouchers, files and subscribing them to them by personnel, management and also the creation of personal websites and information weblogs for exchanging the information with the outer environment the need for an effective, comprehensive and developable tool to supply the above purposes of an organization is strengthened.

The tool which in addition to the above factors, should have the capabilities of making information archives, quick search in information, providing the unified web and internet environment, implementation of the information management systems, the project management, training management, the registering of the date of the creation and changes of the documents and information, creating the accesses and security for users, management and etc. This tool can be produced with regard to the above cases as a content management system. But this fact that a complete, comprehensive and above all, integrate product can be produced, will be a time- and money-consuming.

All the above needs and hundreds of other organizational and management needs caused Microsoft to produce and send to the market, a comprehensive, integrate product in all the parts and unified with the office products: Word, Excel, Outlook, Infopath and …and also different from other available sporadic products in the software products.

The name of this product is Sharepoint Microsoft. In a simple definition, Sharepoint is a collection of tools, products and technologies which has created for making an information base for "subscription of" and "searching for" the information in an environment including the information producers and consumers.

The most important privilege of using the Sharepoint in an organization is its very advanced communication and consistency with the software collection of Microsoft Office. This privilege guarantees the success of the designed systems in the organization because the general users in your organization which play the final role in the use of the provided systems by the organization, easily use the Word software for official correspondence, the Excel software for reports and organizing the information and …. Today, after the circular of the management organization for general training of  have achieved sufficient skill to  using the software collections of Office. As it is evident from the new name of the Sharepoint 2007, this technology is presented as a doorway to use and communicate with the office collection. There is also the possibility of observing the Office documents for users who doesn't have the Office software on their computers. Through this possibility and the launching of a server for this purpose, the users who don't have the Office software can observe the contents of the documents and letters in HTML format.

The use of this distinctive product which has exceptional capabilities in organizations and organs under your management can make you distinct from other organizations and companies based on the automation of the internal system and the systematic inter-organizational management. Sharepoint has the capabilities of establishment and development of the part webs, business intelligences, workflows and also commercial processes. This ability to develop is done based on the internal needs of the organization and the increase in the capabilities of the system.