Comments on: SharePoint – Six Servers Software Systems with Massive Cost Burden http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/sharepoint-six-servers-with-massive-cost-burden/ by Stephen E. Arnold Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:30:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Marianne Calilhanna http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/sharepoint-six-servers-with-massive-cost-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-74745 Marianne Calilhanna Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:07:09 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=8999#comment-74745 @Charles - I second Dan. We always advise our consulting clients to simply state the business problem they are trying to solve. Rather than exploring technology that has the same "features" as Sharepoint, what do you want your software to do? @Charles – I second Dan. We always advise our consulting clients to simply state the business problem they are trying to solve. Rather than exploring technology that has the same “features” as Sharepoint, what do you want your software to do?

]]> By: Dan Keldsen http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/sharepoint-six-servers-with-massive-cost-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-74558 Dan Keldsen Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:28:12 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=8999#comment-74558 The smartest SharePoint deployments that I have seen have those which purposefully AVOID complexity. And by complexity, I mean the insanity of over-customization in the belief that "our company is so special we need to spend 12 months to create a completely unique experience that is likely to shatter into a million pieces when the next iteration of SharePoint comes around." And of course I could substitute any other solution/provider into that sentence and have the same result. People are over-focusing on the "wonders of the tool" when they should be focusing on the business results they need, tools be damned. SharePoint is neither good nor bad (I'm neutral on all technology choices - there are many tools that are perfectly valid options for just about any need), and is certainly no more complex that most of the ECM pre-cursors nor current platforms/suites of their competition. it will be interesting to see what complexity is added and taken away as MOSS2010 hits the streets. The smartest SharePoint deployments that I have seen have those which purposefully AVOID complexity. And by complexity, I mean the insanity of over-customization in the belief that “our company is so special we need to spend 12 months to create a completely unique experience that is likely to shatter into a million pieces when the next iteration of SharePoint comes around.”

And of course I could substitute any other solution/provider into that sentence and have the same result.

People are over-focusing on the “wonders of the tool” when they should be focusing on the business results they need, tools be damned.

SharePoint is neither good nor bad (I’m neutral on all technology choices – there are many tools that are perfectly valid options for just about any need), and is certainly no more complex that most of the ECM pre-cursors nor current platforms/suites of their competition.

it will be interesting to see what complexity is added and taken away as MOSS2010 hits the streets.

]]> By: Charles Robinson http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/sharepoint-six-servers-with-massive-cost-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-74529 Charles Robinson Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:34:55 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=8999#comment-74529 Is there something you would suggest that has a simpler deployment model and still offers all the features of Sharepoint? Is there something you would suggest that has a simpler deployment model and still offers all the features of Sharepoint?

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