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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.
Unstructured content such as documents, images of forms, photographs, XML components, video clips, podcasts and e-mail messages represent the largest body of enterprise information assets. The IT buyers in an organization are looking to reduce the cost of content management applications, and shorten implementation and integration times, while also addressing new demands from increasingly impatient businesses and end users. The business buyers are looking to take charge of critical content and process technologies, with increasing independence from the control of their IT departments. They are becoming confident about expressing this preference, thanks to support from diverse technology providers.
Organizations need Enterprise Content Management (ECM) tool to manage the increasing growth, volume and diversity of the unstructured content that now represents up to 80% of enterprise information. There is an opportunity to start applying to this content some of the rigor currently devoted to structured data in terms of valuation, elimination of redundancies, optimization of architectures for availability, enrichment of metadata, and overall life cycle control.
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management
- Source: Gartner (October 2009)

The ECM market went through a period of major consolidation from 2003 to 2007. The pace of acquisitions then slowed until 2009, when Autonomy purchased Interwoven and Open Text acquired Vignette. We are now in the final stage of market consolidation as vendors look to gain market share and augment broader strategies in relation to information management by expanding composite content application foundations or promoting integration with Microsoft's SharePoint.
In addition to ECM, MOSS can help clients in a multiple other ways: