Comments on: SharePoint Placemat

By: Search 2010: Five Game Changers : Beyond Search

Search 2010: Five Game Changers : Beyond Search — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:02:09 +0000

[...] Microsoft Fast ESP has not yet delivered a fully integrated product. At the FastForward 09 conference, Microsoft announced a road map. In the future a solution to the 50 million document glass ceiling will be available. Today integration and quite a bit of work is needed to implement the system. In addition, there has been a revolving door for executives and a constant realignment of technical resources for the many “flavors” of search at Microsoft: Powerset, Fast, Vista and Windows 7, SQL Server, etc. The confusion in product lines and brands are visible symptoms of a fragmented, heterogeneous technical approach to search. Customers are pulled because of the low cost of initial acquisition of SharePoint, an amalgamation of legacy, third party, and new code. But the complexities of the system may overwhelm some licensees appetite for taming the unruly herd of components. Nevertheless, there are 100 million SharePoint licenses in organizations today, so SharePoint and its to approach search are going to be issues in most organizations. Here’s a diagram of SharePoint with its search component (in itself quite complex) from Impac Systems. My article in Beyond Search provides more information at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/06/28/sharepoint-placemat/ [...]

By: Microsoft SharePoint in a Post Chrome World : Beyond Search

Microsoft SharePoint in a Post Chrome World : Beyond Search — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:03:56 +0000

[...] is a complicated collection of “stuff”. You can check out the SharePoint placemat here. Complexity may be the major weakness of [...]

By: Will Microsoft Bring Home the Gold in the SharePoint Olympics? : Beyond Search

Will Microsoft Bring Home the Gold in the SharePoint Olympics? : Beyond Search — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:06:08 +0000

[...] to the SharePoint placemat diagram here, it seems to me that this Olympics’ diagram is a simplified [...]

By: The Jab-Google Bandwagon Rolls On : Beyond Search

The Jab-Google Bandwagon Rolls On : Beyond Search — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:50:38 +0000

[...] really complicated. (If you have not seen the SharePoint placemat, take a gander. You can find it here.) IBM is a consulting firm with loyal customers who so far have been content to write huge checks [...]

By: Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:08:38 +0000

Paul, thanks for the links. I appreciate it.

Stephen Arnold, June 28, 2008

By: Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:07:35 +0000

Andreas, I honestly don’t know. I think SharePoint is a tough system to track. The demos and the resellers make it look great. After a bit of work with the system, the bloom goes off the rose.

Stephen Arnold, June 28, 2008

By: Andreas ringdal

Andreas ringdal — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:12:06 +0000

65 000 license, how many of those are actually in use?

Andreas

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:15:40 +0000

Thanks for the mention. To read the full series simply go to my homepage http://www.cleverworkarounds.com and all of the articles are listed as a series