Re: Anyone use Sharepoint Portal?

We use it here at work and implement quite a few of
them.  Since it's the biggest integration point with
MS Office products it works nicely with the desktop
and the OS.

Yes, you could build a nice tool yourselves (and we've
even told our clients this much).  Some insist on
going with Sharepoint or Vignette whereas we would
rather develop something that meets 'all' their needs
and get it right.

Part of the fear from the business is the future
extensibility of the framework.  Can what you designed
be added on to?  They got burned with Y2K upgrades
which cost millions so they're staying with packaged
solutions even though their IT groups are screaming
that they're overpriced and under-featured.

That's my two-cents.

Bryan

--- "Austin, Darrel"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Just got back from a 3-day training session on using
> MS Sharepoint Portal.
> 
> It looks like a nice product. We are going to
> overhaul our intranet soon and
> this is one of the contenders for a framework. The
> bulk of our intranet is
> office documents, with some custom content here and
> there.
> 
> Had anyone uses Sharepoint Portal as an intranet
> toolset? If so, thoughts?
> Pros? Cons?
> 
> >From the short course we took, I came away with
> this:
> 
> Pros:
>  - good user/group/permissions management
>  - fairly decent document uploading, etc.
>  - good content 'pushing' abilities (the ability to
> notify
>    various groups about updated content)
> 
> Cons:
>  - like a lot of CMS products we've looked at, it
> seems to 
>    do several things 'OK' but nothing 'great'.
>  - lacks a lot of customization (all Table based
> output, 
>    limited navigation control, limited functionality
>    with the built in 'web parts')
>  - Like a lot of CMS products, this seemed like it
> was designed
>    for one specific task/group scenario and then
> 'marketed' as
>    a broader product than it actually is.
> 
> Since it's an intranet, the lack of customization
> isn't as big of a deal to
> me as it was/is regarding the CMS products we looked
> at for our public site.
> But the limited functionality of the web-parts
> seemed to put me off a bit.
> While we really like the user/group stuff, we're not
> sure if that feature
> outweighs the fact that we could probably easily
> develop our own custom set
> of 'web parts' using our own CMS tools instead.
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Darrel
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