RE: Anyone use Sharepoint Portal?

Just a couple of quick thoughts:

- CON: cross-browser support can be weak with SharePoint's out of the box
web parts ....not a big surprise that IE works best.

- PRO: Looking at the third-party add-on market, you can find/pick and
choose some useful extensions

- PRO: .NET web parts are fairly easy to develop and there's a large number
of consulting/engineering/3rd party resources around the core technology. 


-Brice

<[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