3rd party integration with Sharepoint

[DDsupport]

My company would like to use sharepoint as a hub to track information between various departments.

Does anyone know how well Sharepoint integrates with software/sites like Salesforce and Seapines TestTrackPro??

On the trial version I can only see minor integration with other Office products and even that doesn't work well.


How well does Sharepoint handle issue tracking?

Any information would be helpful...thanks

 

[philhege]

The real question is: how open are packages like Salesforce to database queries? You could write .NET Web parts to bring info into SPS if the providing data source is open.

We created a custom Web part for "issue tracking", but it's more of a list than anything else. You'd have to custom-build something for functions such as alerting and aging. I don't know anything about TestTrackPro, but we use a purpose-built software package called TrackIT for issue tracking/resolution.

Once again, if your third-party apps have any kind of open database connectivity, you can mash something up in Sharepoint to aggregate the information.

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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