Bamboo: Adding Flexibility to Microsoft SharePoint
August 4, 2008
The summer of ’08 may be known as the Summer of SharePoint. Bamboo Solutions here. The company has packaged its various SharePoint administrative tools, tossed in some new Web parts, and simplified its product line. Information Week has a useful description of this vendor’s controls and Web parts for SharePoint here.
In my opinion, SharePoint’s administrative tools are Byzantine. Bamboo’s engineers sat down and figured out how to smooth most of the rough edges in SharePoint. Functions such as routine administration to project management operations are easier. I find Bamboo’s marketing is a bit off center for me. For example, the Project Management Suite features more than a dozen Web Parts to help you manage SharePoint but the product name doesn’t tell me what’s in the bundle. Bamboo also offers a package of widgets to tame the password tiger. If you are not sure what you need, Bamboo will bundle all of its SharePoint gizmos in one package called “Ultimate Suite.” The package includes business intelligence tools, so you may not need Performance Point.
Bamboo offers administrative tools that should be in SharePoint but are not. Bamboo does not make its prices easy to find. You can buy the products here. The SharePoint components are worth a close look.
Stephen Arnold, August 4, 2008
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