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Evaluating SharePoint?
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Microsoft at 2:50 pm on Thursday, 14 February 2008

Michael Sampson has just released a whitepaper that will be very useful for organisations evaluating SharePoint.

This paper is for CIOs, IT Business Analysts and IT Organizations charged with evaluating the efficacy of SharePoint for team collaboration.

The 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity: The Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Analysis

Michael is an international expert in Collaboration, and is based in Christchurch.

There is a lot of useful analysis here and I’m glad to see that Michael is charging a small amount for it. It’s an interesting model for people with particular skills to sell knowledge directly so I’m excited to see how it goes.

SharePoint is one of the massively growing business units at Microsoft and seems like fertile ground for extending and developing add-on products.

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Comments(4)

    Comment by Michael Sampson at 4:04 pm on 15 February 2008

    Thanks Rod, this is much appreciated.
    M.




    Comment by Rod at 8:40 pm on 15 February 2008

    Generated a bit of controversy …

    http://www.crn.com/software/206504324

    Hard to argue that SharePoint isn’t successful but I think it’s still useful to evaluate it against a framework so you know what you’re getting. It is also a useful guide for those wanting to extend SharePoint to identify opportunities.




    Comment by Michael Sampson at 9:48 am on 20 February 2008

    Rod,
    Yes, there are opportunities for extending and developing add-on products. Here’s my take on the opportunities, within the realm of team collaboration: http://www.michaelsampson.net/2008/02/now-available-h.html

    M.




    Comment by Chandima at 4:43 pm on 21 February 2008

    My response to Michael’s white paper >

    http://www.chandima.net/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=116