Re: Pros and Cons

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On Aug 16, 4:53 am, Jimworkem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello people, I have been given the job of researching the pro of
having share point and the cons, the cons mainly being common
troulbes, complaints etc if any of the users of MVP want to add there
to pence let me know please.

Cheers,

Jim.

PRO; SharePoint is the best application of its kind hands down
(Groupware). Nothing else comes close to the functionality.
CON; SharePoint has enough features that the business users sometimes
feel overwhelmed. What is a business data catalog? WHat is SharePoint
designer and workflows? What is this monster called content types?
Answering these questions for a non-technical manager is key to
winning adoption.

PRO;Sharepoint can enable enterprise wide search and it it can evern
search network drives, and any LOB application data.
CON; 64 bit version of SharePoint has some problem with the
application pool. It requires a hotfix from microsoft and without the
hotfix, the search almost becomes self aware and stops taking
commands. Also, search doesn't have the wild card search we are
familiar with as in google enabled by default. They have promised in
the next version of SharePoint.

PRO; SharePoint enables users to create business forms easily and
quickly using Infoptah and form services. Users can quickly deploy a
data gathering application and I have seen some advanced users create
their own versions of web based applications using nothing but form
services. Some of those I was really impresssed with as one user was
actually using web services to interact with SharePoint.
CON; Maintenance and support nightmare. As soon as the person who
developed the application leaves, there is no documentation left and
when the finger pointing starts, IT takes the blame. Also, users
developing forms usually don't test for exceptions and never write use
cases or test scenarios for their forms. WHen the form fails, IT has
to fix it.

There are other but the cons can be managed with upfront thinking.

.

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