Microsoft SharePoint vs. Enterprise 2.0 Start-ups
This week represents an important inflection point for the Enterprise 2.0 market, a set of software vendors that sell social networking technologies to businesses. Analysts say the number of competitors will consolidate in the coming year as Microsoft captures greater market share. The start-ups that will survive must carve out a longterm place for themselves by building applications that are far more innovative and cheaper than those of the incumbent software giant. In addition, they must convince businesses that Microsoft SharePoint's "good enough" strategy is not, in fact, good enough for today's enterprise collaboration needs
As Enterprise 2.0 vendors convene for their annual industry conference here in Boston this week, many continue to fight the complacency of businesses who prefer to use Microsoft as a default choice for all their enterprise collaboration needs. SharePoint, an application that started as a document management system to store (among other items) Microsoft Office files, has since added social features, including profiles, blogs, and wikis.
Although Microsoft's smaller, more nimble competitors have built more sophisticated social networking applications for businesses, analysts say SharePoint has been "good enough" for many companies.
"Microsoft is turning social collaboration into a commodity pretty quickly," says Oliver Young, a senior analyst at Forrester who follows the Enterprise 2.0 market. "Social collaboration through an app like SharePoint is a given, since so many companies already have SharePoint. They can leverage social features at no or very little extra cost."
In addition, industry experts predict the quality of the social applications in SharePoint will improve drastically next year when the vendor releases SharePoint 2010. It will represent a significant upgrade to the product, which last enjoyed a major iteration nearly three years ago - an eternity in Web years, though normal for Microsoft's traditional, multi-year R&D cycles.
"From everything we know, SharePoint will get better," says Susan Scrupski, an Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration expert who pens the ITSinsider blog. "It's likely going to be more social, collaborative, and easier to use."
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Sharepoint 2010
We certainly hope SharePoint's promise is realised with the release of 2010. The excellent vision for SP has grabbed the attention of many IT departments who have persuaded their organisations to invest heavily in it's futures. In my experience solutions to date have been IT lead, difficult and expensive to implement unless kept closely to an 'out of the box' approach.Implementation vendors or internal IT teams have often vastly underestimated the complexity and effort required to develop specific semi-customised requirements.
The success of 2010 will depend for many on product usability, the ease of implementing solutions and the upgrading of current implementations. If it's a 'start again' scenario as with the last 2 major SP iterations, I suspect there could be a number of Chief Financial Officers gunning for their IT Managers!
SharePoint 2010 innovative?
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