Enterprises Need An Open Alternative To SharePoint

In September 2008, the analyst firm CMS Watch concluded that, although SharePoint has been incredibly successful for group and departmental collaboration, it has not succeeded in displacing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. Instead, ECM solutions still have a place in the enterprise, and now co-exist with SharePoint.

While many ECM vendors have come out with SharePoint integration strategies, few have emerged to truly challenge SharePoint's dominance in the collaboration space.

This white paper will review the core user cases of SharePoint - collaboration and light enterprise content management - while recognizing that some enterprises may be interested in it as a business platform that encompasses other components, such as business intelligence, portal capabilities, and other features.