Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is an integrated suite of services that improves organizational effectiveness by providing control over electronic content, accelerating shared processes, and facilitating better-informed decisions and information sharing.

64-Bit Only: SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Edition requires a 64-bit processor with at least four cores and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008.

SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Edition includes the following functionality groupings:

• Collaboration: End users can create content from their preferred web browseror from desktop applications such as Microsoft Word. Automated versioning and workflows, document check-out, and sophisticated access controls help teams work on shared documents with minimal confusion and misunderstanding.
• Enterprise Content Management: Organizations can manage their content through the entire content life cycle — from creation through editing, collaboration, and approval, to long-term retention or final expiration — on a single unified platform. SharePoint can also help implement and automate compliance with information management and data security policies.
• Enterprise Search: The search infrastructure combines federated search, relevance, refinement, and social cues to speed up search and help people find the information and contacts they need.
• Portals: Organizations can build and maintain multiple content portals on a single SharePoint installation, with each portal customized for a particular business activity or organizational stakeholder. For example, an organization could build an enterprise intranet portal for all employees, a divisional portal site for particular departments, one or more partner extranet sites, and a public-facing Internet website.

This product includes a server license. Each user or device that accesses SharePoint Server must have a SharePoint Server user or device client access license (CAL).

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.

Requirements: SharePoint 2010 system requirements can vary according to such factors as system configuration and options in use. See Microsoft TechNet's SharePoint 2010 requirements page for a detailed list of requirements.