SharePoint 2010 is an amazingly rich, and powerful platform; it’s also frustratingly simple, and frequently underwhelms. It’s a testament to the Microsoft organization that SharePoint (in some shape or form, at some level of deployment, often limited to a work group or department) is present and running in more than two-thirds of all medium to [...]

Any time I write about or discuss SharePoint and I dare mention any of its weaknesses instead of focusing solely on its strengths some SharePoint zealot suffers great indignation at my gall for criticizing the ultimate, perfect technology. (Sarcasm: /ˈsɑr kæz əm/ Noun. 1. harsh or bitter derision or irony. 2. a sharply ironical taunt; [...]

It’s difficult study leading intranets without firsthand access to someone else’s intranet. However, our recent webinar, The Best Intranets from the Intranet Global Forum (with Kurt Sorensen, and myself), was a chance for a wide audience (300 organizations worldwide) to see how some of the very best intranets look, operate and achieve success. Great case [...]

“SharePoint provides enough business value to outweigh the hassles,” states the latest Forrester report on SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Adoption, 2011) which reads less like an analysis and more akin to an ad for Microsoft. I truly question Forrester’s impartiality versus their eagerness to please the mother ship. However, the latter half of the report provides [...]

Social media tools on the corporate intranet (intranet 2.0) became mainstream nearly two years ago.  Preliminary results from The Social Intranet Survey (open now, prepared by Prescient Digital Media and sponsored by IABC) show that about two-thirds of organizations have at least one social media tool on their intranet. Shockingly, there are some pundits that [...]

0savesSave SharePoint is a lot to a lot of organizations: a plethora of features, and hundreds of third-party applications make it an overwhelmingly robust platform, but overwhelmingly underwhelming for some. Web content management is a particular feature set that never fails to underwhelm publishers: greatly improved compared to the woefully inadequate MOSS 2007, but far [...]

SharePoint offers so many services, so many bells and whistles, it is a mile wide… but only an inch deep (possibly a foot deep). SharePoint is such an effective, all-encompassing, basic solution for so many challenges and opportunities that the bulk of the services, without expensive customization, leave much to be desired – the basics [...]

SharePoint is the best intranet for some, but not all. Portal solutions make sense for a very few organization, but a minority. Content management systems are often the best solution for those intranets that are primarily focused on communications and news. Other considerations also abound: open source? Social Media? Document management? CRM? Hosted? With thousands [...]

I’ve been labeled  a “SharePoint hater” by more than one SharePoint consultant. I snicker to myself every time I think of it :) The truth: I like SharePoint; I use SharePoint; SP powers our own intranet at Prescient Digital Media. SharePoint is not everything for everybody and is not a good fit for all organizations. [...]

SharePoint 2010 officially launches on May 12, 2010. However, there are many organizations already using the BETA version, and some of us had the opportunity to initially play with it last year. There have been many improvements to 2010, not the least of which are those in social computing and enterprise content management (ECM). But [...]