The first session I visited at the Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010 was an overview about new functions for end users in SharePoint 2010. It is structured in the six fields of SharePoint 2010:
1. Sites
2. Communities
3. Content
4. Search
5. Insights
6. Composites
Sites
· Enhanced User Experience with the Ribbon (known from Office 2007 and 2010) and SharePoint Workspace
· Anywhere Access (mobile access, Office Web Applications, Cross Browser support, offline Access with SharePoint Workspace
· Single Plattform
Communities
· Informal Knowledge (User Feedback, pervasive Tagging, rating system, Noteboard for discussions for Sites and Documents)
· Social connections (enhanced MySite, news feeds, alerts)
· Participation anywhere (work online or offline, mobile User Interface, social context)
Content
· User centric (content metadata and tagging, rapid creation and publishing of web content)
· Enterprise wide taxonomies, cross farm policies and rules for all content types
· Views: different Views for Subfolders are now possible
· Saving Documents: only changes are send back to the server
· Drop off Library: Save content automatically to the correct place
Search
· Better answers and faster (relevance based on usage and history)
· Knowledge Amplification (phonetic multi lingual, interests and expertise, secure access to content in and outside of SharePoint)
· Enterprise Deployment (Search driven applications to enrich the platform)
· FAST: (Previews of the search results, total number at the criteria, …)
Insights
· Data Interaction (Analyses with Excel Services, easy sharing, data visualization)
· Decision Making (Powerful Self Service capabilities, dashboards, reports with access to millions of rows)
Composites
· User-Driven Solutions (Toolsets for End User, Visio Services, Data Validation with forms)
· Data Connectivity (Business Connectivity Services
· Solution Deployment (Sandboxed solutions, resource quota-management)