Microsoft's SharePoint is the market leader in intranet software. But is it always the most suitable solution? In this breakout, intranet technology specialist Toby Ward teaches you the pros and cons of SharPoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 for intranet.

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9. Content management, more advanced document mgmt

10. Collaboration & social media tools (basic)

15. Personalisation centered on MySites

16. Simple but limited interface

17. Increasing third party Web Parts and integrations

18. More simple than deluxe solutions from IBM, Oracle> CON: Limited personalization, integration, and bundled applications when compared to others.

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21. Integration (though difficult) with Exchange for calendars, task lists

22. Very simple Blog and Wiki templates

23. Integration with Instant Messaging

24. Team Sites (same as WSS) & MySites> PRO: Real strength is inherent in Team Sites, site creation under Site Collections

25. Team Site

27. Very simple document management, via ‘Document Libraries’ is simplistic and basic (80% of what most orgs. need)‏

28. Simplistic records management (RM)‏

29. No native Digital Asset Management

30. Conversion of Word to HTML adds usual verbose MS code etc> CON: Comparatively weak when compared to other ECM solutions

33. Centered on publishing Excel sheets

34. More complex scenarios requires Excel server components, BizTalk Server, etc.

35. MS Performance Management Server which can be accessed via Sharepoint portal and provides balanced scorecards, dashboards etc> CON: Not really BI, but has the potential when you buy other products

37. MOSS as a .Net development platform and front end

38. Full business process solutions would require BizTalk Server, possibly InfoPath, Visio, Sharepoint Designer, Visual Studio, etc.> PRO: Strong forms capabilities

40. Easy to customise query and results pages

41. Search includes ‘People’ search as standard

42. However, not universally well received

43. Enterprise search (for Enteprise License)‏

44. Web Parts for FAST (& other search engines)‏> CON: MS bought FAST & integrates with other search engines... (confidence in their product?)‏

45. Search - versions 20

46. ShareView 21

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50. Shawn Shell, Consejo Inc., author of the CMSWatch “The SharePoint Report”>

52. Gartner, “Five Best Practices for Deploying SharePoint”>

54. Alan Pelz-Sharpe, CMSWatch>

56. Alan Pelz-Sharpe, CMSWatch>

58. Bob Mixon, President of Mixon Consulting>

62. A good collaborative workspace product for Team Sites and MySites

63. Simple, entry level WCM & records management

64. Potential with added investment for BI and BPM

65. Search also maybe ‘good enough’> IDEAL: small company of 100-5000 needing a collaboration based portal in a .NET environment

67. Poor functionality and applications compared to others (simplistic content management, DM & RM)‏

68. Limited ‘out of the box’ experience but really a development platform for anything above basics

69. Limited personalization

70. Search is questionable at best> CAUTION: Potential for unmanaged proliferation without careful planning & governance; not a large enterprise solution unto itself

72. Lack of flexibility in IA, accessibility and taxonomies

73. Custom look-and-feel requires time and an experienced developer which might not be supported by MS> NOTE: Requires heavy investment in MS products & is not truly SOA

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78. Publishing platform (Wiki)

79. Taxonomy & meta data

80. Social media

81. Records management (RM)

82. Digital asset management (DAM)

84. Wiki is the new platform “Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010” SPC09

85. Ribbon editing

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90. Publishing Workflow “Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010” SPC09

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96. Ribbon editing

97. Taxonomy / tagging controls

98. Integrated rich media & Silverlight

99. Fast Search integration

100. Better reporting / analytics

102. Governance

103. Branding / design

104. Heavy infrastructure investment (64-bit platform)

105. Windows Server 2008 / Windows 7 64-bit

106. SQL Server 2008 64-bit

109. The SharePoint Report (CMSWatch.com)‏

111. Communexions.com For discussion & links to the slides

112. 55 Toby Ward, President, Prescient Digital Media toby@prescientdigital.com www.PrescientDigital.com www. IntranetBlog.com www.Twitter.com/TobyWard www.Twitter.com/Intranet2 www.Facebook.com (search “Intranet Global Forum”)‏ 416.986.2226 Coming next week: Communexions.com