How is the recovery going for everyone after the Info 360 conference? It was awesome to meet many of you in person, and to catch up with old friends. Note – the rumors of industry revolution and overthrow are only slightly exaggerated. To recap this crazy event, I felt like a...
Delivered! For the legacy vendors … this is a wake up call
While many lauded the arrival of SharePoint as the coup de grâce for legacy vendors, many acknowledge that the platform is so broad and requires so much customization that it fails to deliver key business productivity functions as quickly and easily as the Microsoft Marketing Team would have you believe. Meanwhile, the other legacy vendors continue to layer newer e2.0 features on top of already bloated product suites
At first, this didn't make sense to me; I've been brought in for countless migrations from legacy vendor A to shiny-new vendor B, often at laughable costs of time and money to the end user
The fact is that managing content in the cloud, whether via cloud capabilities of legacy vendors or via the “new” vendors, is perfectly viable
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When Laurence Hart , CIO AIIM , said that cloud ECM offerings are less mature than on-premises solutions, I think he was talking about the degree to which cloud vendors meet (or fail to meet) well-established requirements, not that they aren’t keeping up with the features that legacy vendors are adding on a daily basis
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SharePoint's history as a system of portals and design give SharePoint some competitive advantages in this arena as compared to legacy vendors