Last year I succumbed to the pressure of being one of the only bloggers to NOT have predictions for 2010. So on the last day of the year, I threw together a post with some predictions.
As a side effect, I have to evaluate them now. I am going to score them as either correct, incorrect, or partial (50%). The partial is for predictions that were correct in the causes, but the effects were off.
So, let’s dive into the juicy goodness.
A couple of years ago, I attended a discussion on using SharePoint/MOSS 2007 for Web Content Management and wrote a well visited post, SP for WCM, The Movie. Well, as you may have noticed, Microsoft released a new version this year and they are starting to market it heavily with SharePoint Solutions for Internet Sites.
Well, this week I participated in the SharePoint Symposium 2010 as part of KM World. Specifically I was part of the panel discussing the question of whether or not you can use SharePoint for WCM.
I’ll give a simple answer at the bottom, but I’m going to share the thoughts and opinions that were shared by others and myself.
No, I haven’t converted into a SharePoint fanboi. I am merely acknowledging that it is here to stay, at least for two more versions. Realizing that, my company has been doing quite a bit of SharePoint work in the past few years. We have recently been looking at SP2010 and just upgraded a customer to the new version.
This dalliance with SharePoint has not gone unnoticed by some people in the local area. I was asked to co-present with Wyn Van Devanter to the Washington, DC Web Content Mavens group on what web managers need to know before making the move from 2007 to 2010.
I thought I would share my slides and offer a few additional notes for people. For the record, Wyn tackled the first part of the presentation and I handled the second portion. We could probably each speak to the other half, but we each presented to our strengths.
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Simple, push for CMIS 2.0! In all seriousness, that is a post for another day. I want to focus on the actual release of the standard and the Demo where you can see it in action.
I recently dissected a “comparison” between Documentum and SharePoint. Karma was paying attention and I found myself performing a comparison of CenterStage and SharePoint for one of my long-time eRoom customers last week.
A little background. This client has had eRoom Enterprise since 2004. There has been some isolated success in some pockets of the organization, but not everywhere. The initial champions left during the deployment and there was no real concerted push to use the system afterwards. It had grown slowly over time, but hadn’t become a must-use system for many.
Saw a tweet today that was pretty exciting. It was referencing a “comparison” between SharePoint and Documentum. I was initially excited. I’d love to see CenterStage and SharePoint compared. I compared SharePoint to eRoom a couple of years back and wasn’t planning on a comparison with CenterStage until the database/list functionality was ported over.
My excitement was short-lived.
I instead encountered a piece that resembles propaganda more than a fair and balanced comparison. That may sound harsh, but I will defend the charge.
Everyone seems to be making a looking back post and/or a predictions post. I thought I would throw one against the wall and see if it stuck.
Enjoy…
I didn’t get to go to the SharePoint conference this year, or any other year for that matter, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t represented. My company sent three people, including Jed Carr, our SharePoint Solution Lead. After much cajoling, I convinced him to share his thoughts on the conference for everyone to enjoy.
So without further ado…here’s Jed.
Anytime you get a chance to go to Vegas, it usually turns out to be a good time. This trip, although work related, was no different…plus it was free. My company flew me out and put me up for this year’s SharePoint Conference. Overall, I thought Mandalay did a great job of managing the 7000+ attendees, most of which really wanted to be there. Also, to my surprise, I barely managed to miss a session. I thought there would be more down time, but every time a session ended, I usually found another one I didn’t want to miss.
Apologies to Andrew on this post, but I’ve got to get everything out of my system before I learn anything new NDA items about the two products working together. I think EMC is moving in right direction on these products, but they aren’t there yet. That being said, their current approach is easily the best that I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a lot.
Before you read this post, read my EMC World notes on SharePoint Repository Services and Content Services for SharePoint. That should help with the background.
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