Benefits of using DeliverPoint 2007 to manage your SharePoint Permissions
Empower Site Owners and Site Collection Owners to report on permissions
In many SharePoint environments, End Users are the people who create sub sites, lists, documents and list items. As the creator of these objects, they become the Owner. Being the owner means that they have the ability to manage the permissions of that object. E.g. If you create a document, you want to edit the permissions to allow people to see and edit that document. End Users cannot manage these permissions effectively using SharePoint out of the box as they have no way of accurately seeing who already has permissions to the object.
Take the permissions management headache away from IT
SharePoint Administrators cannot possibly remain responsible for all of the content in every site or workspace. This becomes the role of the Site Owner. End Users tend to have a better idea of who within their department should have permissions to the objects. Giving Site Owners the tools to manage permissions provides your IT department with more time.
Allow SharePoint Administrators to report on permissions across the Farm
As well as empowering the end user to report on permissions to objects they own, DeliverPoint allows Farm Administrators to report on permissions for individual users across the entire farm. This provides a great overview of which sites inherit or have unique permissions as well as each object down to the list item that the reported user has permission to.
Effectively Manage Permissions
DeliverPoint provides you with the ability to Copy, Transfer or Delete permissions at Farm, Web Application, Site Collection, or Site level. Performing the action at any of these given scopes will grant or remove permissions where they are or are not needed without having to manually view and edit the permissions on each object individually. Everything within the given scope including list items will be affected by the actions providing you an easy way to manage permissions.
Clean up old user accounts
As people leave, Active Directory account are usually disabled and then eventually deleted. If the account in question still has permissions in SharePoint, DeliverPoint will flag these accounts up allowing you to report on them and remove them when you require.