SharePoint, Microsoft’s broad and wildly popular business platform, is growing from good to great. SharePoint 2010 enables robust business collaboration for the enterprise and the Web by offering a fuller breadth of capabilities and new enterprise-class management tools.

While the improvements made to SharePoint 2007 popularized the product across industry segments with its collaboration and workspace capabilities, portal, and enterprise content management benefits, SharePoint 2010 boasts an even richer, more advanced and integrated feature set that readily enables business collaboration among employees, colleagues, and partners.

The foundational business-collaboration features of SharePoint 2010 include: document collaboration; wikis and blogs; RSS support; discussion boards; project task management; contacts, calendars, and tasks; e-mail storing and management; better design for working with Microsoft Office 2010; and, richer offline support using SharePoint Workspace 2010.

Industry experts say that with SharePoint 2010 Microsoft filled in the gaps of previous versions to offer a dynamic product that will have both existing SharePoint users and new customers clamoring.

“Microsoft definitely made SharePoint 2010 more compelling for current SharePoint customers and new potential customers,” says Guy Creese, research director at Burton Group.

via Improved Web Collaboration on Tap for 2010.