Item: Microsoft SharePoint
Rating: 6
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft SharePoint is used as part of our document and project management system. We developed our own version of Project Management on SharePoint and although the effort level was very high the end result meets our needs. The team of developers needed to build and debug the system was about 4-5. It manages our publishing process (each publication is a project).

Pros and Cons

Pros

Version control of documents
Basic workflows
customizable interface

Cons

document management (for example archiving and sentencing)
better workflows controls (1 to many, many to 1 , many to many)
blob management

Return on Investment

Lots of investment for the return
verall a positive outcome
be prepared for initial frustration

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft SharePoint is good for basic intranets out of the box. Apart from that be prepared to put in a lot of effort to get the particular results you want, particularly if the outcome is complex. Although I have heard that SP is a solution looking for a problem I think it is far better than that and your imagination is the limit of what can be achieved with this product. The balance is the amount of effort to get the desired results.

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