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Because of client requirements, my team uses Sharepoint. What an overcomplicated mess. For information security reasons, Gmail is blocked. So, even though we
by Cieplak 14y ago
Because of client requirements, my team uses Sharepoint. What an overcomplicated mess. For information security reasons, Gmail is blocked. So, even though we would want to use a google spreadsheet on the side for tracking tasks and issues that might not merit posting to our client's sharepoint site, we can't. To replicate this functionality, we occasionally collaboratively edit a spreadsheet on the LAN. Everybody hates Sharepoint, but they still use it because it's what they know. I think the best way to get a foot into this market would be to build an open-source replacement for Sharepoint, and build a business around deployments and consulting. Not an easy task. There are many tools out there that do one or two of the things that Sharepoint does, but few of these tools integrate with one another. Perhaps part of the reason Sharepoint sucks so hard is that it gives you all of these things out of the box. If you could build a modular system for all of this functionality, and market it successfully, there would be tons of businesses wanting to buy your services. Granted, services companies don't scale the way that product companies do, but do a handful of enterprise deployments and then retire. I envision such a system being like Wordpress with various plug-ins. Make the complexity of the software match the complexity of the problem you are trying to solve, without introducing incidental complexity.
- grakic 14y ago> I think the best way to get a foot into this market would be to build an open-source replacement for Sharepoint Hm, like http://www.alfresco.com/tour http://www.alfresco.com/tour ?
- Cieplak 14y agoWhen you go to the their home page, it looks like a monthly service. Building from source looks somewhat cumbersome: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_SVN_Development_Environment http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_SVN_Development_Envir... They appear to have a freemium pricing model. http://www.alfresco.com/products/compare http://www.alfresco.com/products/compare Alfresco looks like a great product. I'm picturing a set of unix-like tool built of small components that each do one thing well. Perhaps a set of rails plugins, which probably already exist. Alfresco seems a bit monolithic. Perhaps this is just a fact of life with any CMS/Collaboration software. Alfresco has add-ons, too. I'm sure it's head and shoulders above Sharepoint in terms of deployment and usability. edit: I think Asana looks great: http://asana.com/ http://asana.com/
- MartinCron 14y agoIf you think using Sharepoint is an overcomplicated mess, you should try having to develop for it sometime.
- Cieplak 14y agoUnfortunately I have to get my hands dirty with it every now and then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_Application_Markup_Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_Application_Marku...