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Overview: If you are planning to implement (or augment) an enterprise content management (ECM) system, you will definitely want to do your homework—especially if Microsoft SharePoint is on your short list.
As a collaboration tool, SharePoint offers a lot of benefits. It excels at allowing organizations to create a recognizable interface that can serve as a single point of contact. And SharePoint does have some light workflow functionality that may be of value to certain organizations.
Unfortunately, however, as a complete ECM solution, it may do more harm than good—especially when you consider what’s missing. You can find a glut of articles that claim otherwise from Microsoft partners who—along with the Microsoft marketing conglomerate—spend significant time and resources defending SharePoint from perceived mudslinging. The contradictory messages confirm that you need to do your research. ECM implementation is no place to cut corners.
This article discusses the different, yet complementary roles of SharePoint and ECM in addressing business challenges.
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