Comments on: Embracing SharePoint, Recipe for Death?

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:12:57 +0000

Alexander – take a look at Chuck Hollis blog about internal use of Social Media within EMC, they are using Jive Softwares ‘Clearspace’ platform – maybe because EMC are using it themselves, soon their might be a nice integration ?

If you want a nice collaborative portal and don’t want MOSS use BEA Aqualogic !

Pie – for info, I have just been told eRoom 8 is dead ! Long live the “Knowledge Worker Internet Rich Client” !! Aparently the product known by the codename Phoenix, which we heard so much about at EMC World 2007 in Florida, which was to be released this year, was not a big enough improvement. So Phoenix is killed off, to be replaced by something better in 2009. This is ‘official’ word from Documentum Monaco conference (Nov 2007) and there will be a presentation on this subject at a ‘D6 day’ at Wembley Stadium in London on the 28th of this month.

By: Pie

Pie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:04:12 +0000

Alexandra, you are exactly right. I’d like to see eRoom make a run at it. I think the ECM vendors are worried and are thinking too much on the short term. Lee Dallas pointed out a short-term concern. You point to the not-so-obvious opportunity for a competing solution.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:04:36 +0000

Hmm…I can’t help to wonder why so many people suddenly think Sharepoint is the ONLY collaborative portal out there. Sure MOSS is getting more and more attention and is being installed in a lot of places. Fine, let people do that. But do we really need to surrender to Microsoft already. Sure there must be alternatives out there since MOSS is definiately not the best fit for everyone. As people have pointed out, MOSS will result in a very fragmented enterprise with dozens and dozens of sites created in an ad-hoc manner sometimes even supported by Groove. But for anyone that need a focused strategy to handle information and their flows within an enterprise that can hardly be a desireable solution.

Sure the big ECM-vendors need to focus on delivering much better collaborative user interfaces or maybe parterning with our collaborative portal projekts. Personally I rather “content-enable” a more straightforward community solution with Documentum than forcing users into a strange Sharepoint default interface that many of my users find rather confusing.

By: Jed

Jed — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:56:23 +0000

Ahhh, all just a trick to get back to the subject of standards eh , I can see right through you matey…

Whatever next, postings on iECM, JSR170, SOA…… any excuse !