This document summarizes the key technologies and aspects that make a SharePoint site useful. It covers content types and metadata for organizing content, using web part relationships and views to control how information is displayed, shared calendars integrated with Outlook, workflows and event receivers for automating processes, business connectivity services for integrating external data, flexible search capabilities, SQL reporting services for real-time reports, form services for customizing forms, and dashboards for visualizing key performance indicators. The overall objective is to describe how to leverage these tools to make technology useful for any organization.