The 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity: The Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Analysis

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This White Paper runs the capabilities of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 through the 7 Pillars framework that I developed in the first half of 2005.

"On its own merits, SharePoint fails the needs of teams for collaborative software in 6 out of the 7 areas. It thus passes only one of the areas on its own merits, and it passes an additional two areas if the organization adds additional server software from Microsoft. However, using the software available from Microsoft, it earns a failing grade in 4 out of the 7 areas."

This paper is for CIOs, IT Business Analysts and IT Organizations charged with evaluating the efficacy of SharePoint for team collaboration.

The paper is 31-pages in length. Download and review the Summary Document (Registration Required) ... which contains the first 7 pages of the report, the analysis of Pillar 4, and the last page (PDF, 264KB)

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