Could SharePoint simply be 'good enough?'

At the EMC Writer's Conference last Friday in New York City, Bryant Duhon, an editor at AIIM's Infonomics magazine gave a presentation on Microsoft SharePoint. Many participants engaged in a lively discussion, which concluded that while SharePoint wasn't the best solution out there, "it is good enough" for most organizations' requirements.

Duhon pointed out that it may be a good choice for many IT departments because it's cheap and often free. It is also familiar because it is a Microsoft product, even if it's not the best technology available. Whitney Tidmarsh, CMO for the Content Management and Archiving Division at EMC, pointed out that SharePoint was never going to be a complete ECM solution, but it brings ECM to the desktop level. She sees value in that, because it puts the idea of content management in front of end users.

The fact that it's fairly easy for end users to understand and deploy is a strength on one hand, but it can also result in literally thousands of SharePoint sites across the enterprise, raising a huge, governance red flag.

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Source: fiercecontentmanagement.com
By: Ron Miller