In this webinar, Carmine Porco, GM and VP of Client Deliverables at Prescient, walks through several social media tools, explaining their pros and cons, their benefits to an organization, and the ideal intranet environment to support them.
View the webinar video here: http://bit.ly/cawgmh
22. Intranet 2.0 Maturity Model
Instant
Messaging
Discussion
Forums
Wikis
Blogs
Present
Use RSS
Video
Podcasts Sharing
Tagging
Social
Networking
Mashups
Market Maturity/Success
Present Use as determined by Prescient’s Intranet 2.0 Global Survey
Market Maturity as determined by Forresters chart
32. SharePoint
"SharePoint 2010's biggest strength, its breadth of capabilities, is also its greatest weakness," says Rob
Koplowitz, principal analyst at research firm Forrester. "For companies not currently invested in SharePoint
that are looking to only fulfill a basic need, like deploying a set of publicly facing blogs, the full SharePoint
platform will look like a sledgehammer compared to products from companies like Socialtext, Jive, and
others."
Such SaaS startups have the advantage of developing new features quicker than big companies like Microsoft
and IBM can. But SaaS companies have much to fear now that Microsoft has made social tools a priority in
SharePoint 2010, says Koplowitz. SaaS upstarts also have to walk the thin line of both competing with SharePoint
and making their software compatible with it.
Yet the fact remains: social tools are just a portion of the SharePoint platform and procuring and managing the
entire SharePoint suite is a huge task. It entails license and server costs, the training of staff, providing virus
protection and backup, and possibly paying for consultant help. It's worth noting that a stripped down, online
version of SharePoint has been available since November 2008 and Microsoft cut prices for it in November 2009.
SharePoint 2010 will come as both as an on-premises and hosted online offering.
Nevertheless, if you're a company that just wants a powerful set of social networking tools, implementing
the whole SharePoint suite is not a wise choice, says Koplowitz.
"That's like killing a whole buffalo when all you want is a sandwich," he adds.
Shane O'Neill, CIO.com