Office SharePoint Server is a new server program that is used to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes. You can create Office SharePoint Server sites that support specific content publishing, content management, or records management. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in forms-driven business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of business data. The capabilities of SharePoint work together to help your organization quickly respond to changing business needs. Using SharePoint, your people can share ideas and expertise, create custom solutions for specific needs, and find the right business information to make better decisions. For IT, SharePoint helps you cut training and maintenance costs, save time and effort, and focus on higher business priorities. In addition, Office SharePoint Server is designed to work effectively with other programs, servers, and technologies. In many Office programs, you can initiate or participate in workflows, which are the automated movements of documents or items through specific sequences of actions or tasks that are related to a business process, such as the approval process for an expense report.