Dear All,
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"So, in response to your posting ref SharePoint. I have experience of
both variants, both from an IT "techie" administrators point of view,
and from a "business" evaluation point of view for the latest variant
SPPS2003. In response to your particular question:
"Is Sharepoint even worth having without RM controls?" - the answer
would have to be - want to do you want to use it for ? The clues are in
the products title "SharePoint" and "Portal". I think it's a cracking
little system for banging out a reasonably sophisticated intranet
portal, with a heirarchy of intranet sites beneath it. The SharePoint
bit alludes to its use in MS centric environments to allow users to
share MS Office type content, this includes its ability to hook into
Outlook and Messenger IM. So if you want a sophisticated intranet,
including SPPS "My Sites" instead of personal shared areas on servers,
and the ability to rapidly build a web site including discussion forums
around a Word doc then its great.
But, and it's a big but, that is "collaboration" not document
management. Its certainly no where near Records Management and MS does
not even try to con us on that one, suggesting the purchase of add on's
such as Meridio.
To sum up, at the Ark Groups "eContent Management Forum" last year, I
met the senior managmer from the Ministry of Defence responsible for
their EDRM system which is SharePoint Portal Server 2003/Meridio/K2
(which is workflow)- he publicly stated that if he had to do the project
again, he would purchase a different solution.
Hope this helps, feel free to forward to your list if you wish."
Regards
Jed
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G.P.Cawthorne. MBCS CITP
Project Manager
Enterprise Content Management
The Open University
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Gerry.
Mr.G.Dane
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
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