- SharePoint 2010 - 5 Hot Features to Look Forward To
- Selecting a CMS: How to Build a Short List
- Alterian Drops Immediacy, Morello Web CMS Brands
- Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7
- How SharePoint 2010’s Metadata Services Increase Usability
- Gartner’s Top 5 BPM Predictions for 2010 And Beyond
- Open Text Reports Good Q2, Vignette Contributes to YoY Spike
Get the NewsletterLargely Unplanned SharePoint Growth Causing Enterprise Problems
There's a lot of anticipation about the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release. But back on Earth, the reality is that SharePoint 2007 has already become a key component of enterprise infrastructure.
In fact, according to a recent IDG survey, 62% of CIOs said that SharePoint was a critical component of their technology portfolio. And these organizations have big plans for expanding SharePoint use in the next year.
Primary areas of growth will be:
- business process management (63%)
- records management (40%)
- web content management (39%)
- application development (35%)
Ed Durst, portfolio manager of the Microsoft Solutions Group at Open Text, says that SharePoint is starting to be treated as a true business application, similar to Microsoft Exchange or SAP. This new status demands new thinking and new practices.
Unplanned Growth Causing Problems
There's bad news along with the good. According to IDG Research's findings, SharePoint growth has been primarily unplanned and there have been some consequences.
Business Management Problems
- Insufficient workflow processes (44%)
- Disorganized content (40%)
- Lack of an over-arching site creation strategy (38%)
End User Problems
- Difficulty searching across multiple SharePoint sites (43%)
- Duplicated document or record copies/multiple content versions (42%)
Durst says there has always been tension between corporate control over and user acceptance of new technologies. With SharePoint, you now have IT managers saying they have a tool users like, they just need to establish better governance and control.
Taking Back the Infrastructure
Before organizations can move to the next level of business capabilities with SharePoint, they need to ensure their infrastructure is solid and will support growth.
Resolving these challenges, along with ensuring the administrative and storage costs costs associated with growing SharePoint don't overcome the organization, are key planning components.
This Wednesday at 2pm ET (11am PT), you are invited to join a webinar entitled Taking Back the Infrastructure: Why Optimizing SharePoint is Critical for Today's Corporations. The event will cover the IDG survey results and how you can implement SharePoint in a way that is cost-effective and well governed.
You can register here for the webinar.
Was this article useful?
Email It
Stumble It
Add RSS3 Reader Comments
Leave a Response
Processing...
From our Job Board View all jobs
| 
Jobs RSS feed
| Post a job right now
Featured Events View all events
| Events RSS feed
| Add your event
- Feb 17, 2010 – Webinar: 4 Essential Strategies for Advancing Your Website's Business Impact
- Feb 26, 2010 – Intelligent Content 2010
- Apr 21, 2010 – Drupalcon San Francisco 2010
- May 5, 2010 – CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston)
- Oct 7, 2010 – HartmanEVENT 2010 - Social Media & Mobile Usability
I have found that one of the required attributes for any "scan to SharePoint" solution for document imaging, is the ability to structure scan data dynamically, and provide standardization to the scanning process. Implementing a scanning/imaging solution without the ability to standardize allows users to recreate their paper mess digitally. As more and more organizations gravitate towards SharePoint, building the right foundation is an absolute must.
Steve,
Your observation is absolutely right. Independent Software Vendors have been quick to see the opportunity and fill the gap. You should consider our Dark Blue Duck Scanning Enabler products and our competitors products.
See: http://www.darkblueduck.com/Screencast/Default.aspx
You are likely to be suppressed by the maturity of the products available and the modest investment required.
Please let us know if we can help.
Kind regards
Neil
What amazes us the willingness of Enterprises to start a Sharepoint implementation without fully understanding the users 'out in the wild'.
We are also an ISV with a full DM hosted offering. We are implementing our solutions with Sharepoint including Service as Software options for Sharepoint. Understanding data formatting is something we are specialize in.