
<p>Has the massive investment in SharePoint lived up to its promise as the uber-collaboration platform for the enterprise?</p><p>Has it delivered the measurable business value everyone expected? How do your users feel about SharePoint? Are they still working like its 1999? Is SharePoint 2013 a platform that will take your organization into the future? What about Yammer? SharePoint Has Its Use Cases</p><p>In full disclosure, I recently joined Jive Software, but I write this from the point of view of experience. I have spent the last seven years working with SharePoint, time with a Microsoft partner, and years working with related platforms like Notes, eRoom and Documentum. And anyone who has worked with SharePoint would likely agree that there are some use cases SharePoint is better at addressing than others such as general web publishing, portals, document management, workflows and forms.</p><p>Yes, SharePoint has its use cases. Collaboration has never been its strongest. And over the years we've seen many organizations spend significant costs in addition to the base platform license on third party add-ons, support and services just trying to change the UI and user experience in an attempt to make SharePoint live up to its promise and vision as the uber-collaboration platform for the enterprise.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/is-sharepoint-a-failed-vision-for-collaboration-020271.php">Keep reading...</a></p>