SharePoint 2010 allows organisations to:

• Manage Content and Processes
  • Control documents through detailed, extensible policy management
  • Centrally store, manage, and access documents across the enterprise
  • Simplify Web content management
  • Extend business processes across the organization
  • Streamline everyday business activities
• Improve Business Insight
  • Present business-critical information in one central location
  • Quickly connect people with information
  • Share business data broadly while helping to protect sensitive information
  • Take advantage of your unstructured business networks to drive better decisions
  • Unlock business data
• Simplify Internal and External Business Collaboration
  • Enhance customer and partner relationships
  • Ubiquitous Enterprise Search
  • Work when and where you want
  • Connect and share knowledge
  • Personalize operations
• Empowers IT to Make Strategic Impact
  • Get enhanced interoperability support
  • Enable IT to focus on more strategic tasks
  • Simplify deployment, management, and system administration
  • Robust system monitoring, usage tracking, and monitoring tools

For further information please see “Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 benefits” on the Microsoft website.