Comments on: AIIM Does SharePoint

By: Pie

Pie — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:41:42 +0000

To keep it brief, there are few concerns. Note that I have not deeply investigated, which is the reason for my hesitation to declare one way or the other.
- No WCM story. Currently a problem until ECM 2.0 fully takes root.
- No non-Microsoft platform support.
- Haven’t seen any large benchmarks.
As I said, not making a definitive statement, but when looking beyond a departmental application, OnBase has never been in the conversation. I am open to information that would allow me to classify them as Enterprise.

By: Greg S

Greg S — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:35:45 +0000

As for the OnBase comment, could you please expand on “Not sure if they are truly Enterprise”. Is that due to lack of a WCM story…which is not something they will ever do….

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:02:35 +0000

Laurence

I went to the Toronto session (whilst on vacation and doing the immigration stuff !) – I also took the most away from the DocuLabs session and one from Ottawa based integration house SeeUnity. The one thing we don’t do in the major ECM implementation I am leading is scan for capture, and so I was not really ‘turned on’ by the 4 scanning focused breakout sessions.

Yes MOSS is document management, and soon it will be DOD compliant RM too – but why are they so ashamed of the ‘portal’ word that they have dropped it from the title -> Sharepoint is a portal, which is why EMC / FileNet / OpenText are all using at as the front end to ‘serious’ ECM repository back ends. Many other vendors portals have a built in document management module / capability i.e. BEA Aqualogic (Plumtree), Vignette etc

By: Don Martin

Don Martin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:22:37 +0000

Thank you for your kind words about my presentation for Tower Software. I actually did not know until I arrived that the whole day was centered around SharePoint: Tower just asked me whether I would talk about something that interested me, and this topic has absorbed my attention for the past 5 years.

By: Kris Brown

Kris Brown — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:20:34 +0000

Laurence,
Thanks for you kind words, while I was not at the presentation, I’m glad you took some value from it.
It’s good to see there are a few others out there who share the view on Sharepoint and it’s ECM credentials.