Mixed by Gregory Culpin (Business Development Officer @ Whatever) in Enterprise search, Trends
July
An article originally posted on arnoldit.com
“The most interesting point in Ms. Foley’s essay was: “SharePoint is a collection of six servers that provide document collaboration, portal creation, enterprise search, enterprise content management, electronic forms creation and management and business intelligence functions (analysis and publication of business information).”
Now we know. SharePoint is complicated. Perfect for SharePoint consultants and Microsoft fans in information technology departments. SharePoint can be slightly less satisfying for users who want to use a system that is transparent, snappy, and easy to customize.”
Read the full article at arnoldit.com
In my opinion…
Sharepoint is a well-known product, yet its complexity to be implemented in a corporation (large or small), as underlined by Mary-Jo Foley’s essay and reinforced by Arnold Stephen’s follow-up, is very often under-estimated by IT departments and further up the ladder.
In reality however, the huge amount of effort, time and money which has to be invested before getting a decent customized/usable platform now haunts many of those who have had the guts to try and get the monster truck on track. Getting it to roll in the initially wanted direction is another matter altogether!
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