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If Google docs is an alternative to Word, then this is an alternative to Sharepoint. As opposed to collaborative document authoring, collaborative knowledge ma
by ronreiter 14y ago
If Google docs is an alternative to Word, then this is an alternative to Sharepoint.
As opposed to collaborative document authoring, collaborative knowledge management allows things like collaborative document arrangement, a better permission system, links between documents, better searchability and more.
- bengillies 14y agoIndeed. Google Docs suffers a lot from discoverability and, while you can collaboratively edit on it, it feels too much like a locked down blob of content and so suffers from a lot of the same problems that Word suffers from (in my experience with it at least): it's hard to know when it's changed; when someone updates it, you get an email; when someone writes something, they have to "share" it with with you before you know it exists; WYSIWYG is a terrible way of editing content. I'm not sure how many of these problems this solves, but Wikis in general solve many of them.
- modarts 14y agoSharePoint dev here. I fully realize that SharePoint is not the greatest platform out there on a number of counts; but I can't really see this as being anything close to an alternative to SharePoint. It would definitely serve as a HUGE upgrade to its native Wiki functionality, however.