Sharepoint is a very rich development platform. It is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help meliorate organizational strength 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 the platform and tools required for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability

Top SharePoint features:

• Makes it easy for everyone to access current information, get real-time status updates and collaborate with co-workers
• SharePoint 2010 offers enhancements to drive productivity, scalable unified infrastructure, and flexible deployment
• Improve workflow and help reduce shipping and travel costs by sharing all of your information through a single, universally accessible location
• Connects seamlessly with Microsoft Office and third-party platforms, making it easy for users
• Works with Microsoft Unified Communications CRM and ERP, so you eliminate some redundant solution costs

Microsoft sharepoint is a collection of software and products that include web browser based collaboration functions, process management modules, search modules and document management platforms. It can be used to develop websites that access shared workspaces, information stores and documents, and also host defined applications such as wikis and blogs.

Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Includes:

• New user interface, including the new Office Ribbon.
• Web Edit, allowing easy customization of a site.
• Silverlight Web Part, allowing rapid integration of rich Silverlight applications.
• Rich Theming, allowing simplified skinning of a SharePoint 2010 site
• Multiple browser support, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari amongst others.
• Enterprise Metadata Management ("SharePoint taxonomy"), which enables a centralized taxonomy