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July 31, 2008
How to Cope With SharePoint
We’ll be posting a new Focus On Document Management story in the coming weeks that discusses the rise of Microsoft SharePoint and how end users are increasingly looking for technical help to get the most out of the multifaceted tool.
In the meantime, content-management researcher CMS Watch offers some important advice for coping with SharePoint in a new analysis of the product.
Here are a few bullet points excerpted from “SharePoint Report 2008.” First, under the category of business advice, CMS recommends that users:
• Do Not Assume SharePoint Is “Free”
• Do Recognize SharePoint’s Technical Complexity
• Do Not Over-engineer Your Environment
• Do Consider Working with a Microsoft Partner
• Do Not Get Carried Away with a Partner’s Enthusiasm
• Do Plan Any Migration Very Carefully
CMS’s technical advice for solution providers and others who must grapple with SharePoint’s inner workings includes these do’s and don’ts:
• Do Recognize Soft and Hard Technical Limits
• Do Not Plan for a Federated Storage Architecture
All of which shows that solution providers who currently or in the future will offer document-management solutions need to understand this market presence whether they become certified SharePoint providers or not.
Posted by ajoch at July 31, 2008 11:01 AM
