CMS Watch Evaluates SharePoint 2009
By Manoj Jasra
Expert Author
Article Date: 2008-12-03
SharePoint 2007 customers are increasingly turning to Microsoft partners to provide capabilities where the platform either lacks or underperforms, according to research undertaken by CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.
"After initially marketing SharePoint as a virtually omnipotent platform, Redmond is now emphasizing partner-oriented solutions," notes CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne. "On the whole, that's a good thing, but customers need to prepare themselves to deal with multiple vendors and solutions as part of their SharePoint architecture."
These findings come from CMS Watch's SharePoint Report 2009, a 241-page evaluation of SharePoint from an enterprise perspective, assessing its suitability for nine different business scenarios and evaluating twenty-two software partner offerings across eight categories: Search
Web Part Collections
Imaging & Capture
Archiving & Records Management
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Workflow & BPM
Social Software
Administration & Management
The report also found: The broader SharePoint ecosystem also includes consultants, trainers, and systems integrators, but enterprises should note that many of these firms bring fluency in only one or two of SharePoint's nine core services.
Microsoft is actively planning the next major SharePoint release ("Office 14"), and if history is any guide, the company will replicate in the platform many of the services provided today by partners, potentially limiting the long-term value of enterprise investments in 3rd-party solutions.
Redmond's community-source CodePlex effort offers another approach to supplementing native SharePoint services, but CodePlex projects appear to have less energy and support than traditional open source projects.
The SharePoint Report is available for purchase online from CMS Watch (http://www.cmswatch.com/SharePoint/).
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Manoj Jasra is a well respected search marketing veteran having been in the industry since 2002. Manoj currently serves as a Sr. Analyst on the web solutions team at Shaw Communications Inc. Manoj's role primarily consists of providing SEO/PPC and Web Analytics strategies in addition to business insight on Shaw's web properties. Previously, Manoj held the role of Director of Technology at Enquiro Search Solutions where he oversaw Enquiro's product development for search marketing solutions and acted as the lead on both SEO Training and Enquiro's Web Analytics approach.
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