You would be amazed at the number of organisations I have spoken to over the
last 3 years that start Sharepoint Projects only to find out it's
limitations after having spent a lot of money time and effort, and then
progress to procuring Document Management products with industrial strength
repositories, security permissions and Records Management functionality,
workflow functionality.
To the ECM, Document Management and Records Management industry Sharepoint
is seen as somewhat of an annoyance, as it distracts organisations from
approaching this subject with the seriousness it deserves, because why?
It's free if you own a Microsoft enterprise license, or it's very cheap to
buy. But guess what it's not cheap to pursue this strategy only to duplicate
it using more suitable technology 18 months later.
Can any one vouch for SPS's scalability, security and permission structure
and state how many users they have deployed it too with how many millions of
documents stored in it. I'd love to hear from any one in this forum that has
managed this without bolting it into something else.
Regards
Paul Headey
Deltascheme
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Dane [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 February 2005 14:47
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Sharepoint
We've begun looking at Sharepoint here too.
Question: Do any of you who are further down the Sharepoint path look on it
as 1) an add-on to RM software or 2) RM software as an add-on to Sharepoint?
(leave aside for a moment the 'iffiness' of any statement that describes RM
as an 'add-on' to anything')
Reason I ask is that I view 1 as sound (with proviso above) but 2 as
distinctly dodgy. Example: I can find nothing in Sharepoint to enable the
building of robust classification/registration functionality and place this
requirement well ahead (and pre-requisite) to the document sharing capacity
offered by Sharepoint.
Being essentially 'free', the Sharepoint bandwagon has an awful lot of
momentum already built in for it - 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth'
etc. Thing is I can't help worrying that the 'gift horse' might turn into
the proverbial 'trojan horse' if we're not careful to ensure an RM
infrastructure is in place (and the IT to implement it) prior to letting it
off the leash. (and ending up with a bigger mess than we started with)
Basically, I want to say 'Stop doing this it's dangerous. Let's consider the
RM requirement before we look at document sharing'.
Thing is I need to say 'spend money', Sharepoint champions don't.
Question: Is Sharepoint even worth having without RM controls?
Gerry.
Mr.G.Dane
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
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