This document provides an overview of key SharePoint technologies for creating useful portal sites, including: content types and metadata for organizing content; web part relationships and views for controlling content display; shared calendars; workflows, event receivers and timed services for automating processes; Business Connectivity Services for integrating external data; search; SQL Reporting Services integration; and dashboards using Excel Services and PerformancePoint. The objective is to demonstrate how leveraging these technologies can make a SharePoint site more useful to an organization.