Here is my take on SharePoint 2007 and LiveLink
Of late, I am extensively working on 2007 but LiveLink is the leader in our company.
Please feel free to add your points.
SP 2003 and MOSS 2007:
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the less said the better about 2003. so i will jump to 2007.
1. MOSS enterprise edition a gimmick. I can as well build a .net interface to SAP/SIEBEL/etc systems and talk with MOSS to storing content from my application. BDC does not give anything new except to have a placeholder in enterprise edition.
2. Same with excel services. It is a good tool, but I can suppose we can do the same thing in .net in very easy fashion.
3. Same with advanced info path forms. I can as well as build a .net app and talk to sharepoint. Why bother to buy enterprise edition at all?
4. So enterprise edition does not give anything new except to make money for our beloved Mr.Softee.
5. Scalability a huge issue. Also even if your data reaches 1TB, you have to put in place a strong dba, a strong administrator and a strong architect just to keep things going. These guys cost easily close to 100 per hour each and they constantly move for better billing rates!!!!
6. If you are looking at 5TB to 20TB (a fairly medium, i wont say big because big means greater than 50TB as LiveLink installations continuously notch up huge installations), then you are seeing a mess of front end's and application servers.
7. If you touch anything then it is a .net work and that means a dedicated sharepoint developer.
8. Storing all content within the db is shocking. Imagine maintaining 2TB database for even basic document management storage!!!! Whoa.. dba where are ya!!!!
9. One good thing is UI in 2007 is good. But most content/doc mgmt system's user interface has dramatically improved in their latest versions. This includes Documentum 5 and 6 and LiveLink 9.2, 9.5 and 9.7
LiveLink:
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1. A massively scalable system with relatively small server footprints.
2. No need to even have an admin to be present once you get the infrastructure and modules in place.
3. Zero dba needed. Zero architect needed after inital work.
4. Very very very very low maintenance baby.
5. Can scale massively to ten's of terrabytes of data with just small footprint of front end web servers. Content stored externally means zero database worries.
6. Neat UI in their latest version a huge advantage
7. No standard/enterprise edition gimmicks
8. Strong support from even basic OpenText support. cheap becomes cheaper.
9. Licenses can be negotiated as low as $100 per user license.
10. Can be easily exposed to extranet's/internet via their servlet option.
11. OScript is a rare skill but with few API's to catchup, a developer can easily be trained on this.
12. Perhaps the most powerful workflow engine out there among cont/doc mgmt systems.
If I were to recommend, I will do LiveLink over anything. I have not worked in Documentum and so cannot comment on it.
Guru's please add your thoughts. I will listen to more who can disagree with me
Of late, I am extensively working on 2007 but LiveLink is the leader in our company.
Please feel free to add your points.
SP 2003 and MOSS 2007:
------------------------
the less said the better about 2003. so i will jump to 2007.
1. MOSS enterprise edition a gimmick. I can as well build a .net interface to SAP/SIEBEL/etc systems and talk with MOSS to storing content from my application. BDC does not give anything new except to have a placeholder in enterprise edition.
2. Same with excel services. It is a good tool, but I can suppose we can do the same thing in .net in very easy fashion.
3. Same with advanced info path forms. I can as well as build a .net app and talk to sharepoint. Why bother to buy enterprise edition at all?
4. So enterprise edition does not give anything new except to make money for our beloved Mr.Softee.
5. Scalability a huge issue. Also even if your data reaches 1TB, you have to put in place a strong dba, a strong administrator and a strong architect just to keep things going. These guys cost easily close to 100 per hour each and they constantly move for better billing rates!!!!
6. If you are looking at 5TB to 20TB (a fairly medium, i wont say big because big means greater than 50TB as LiveLink installations continuously notch up huge installations), then you are seeing a mess of front end's and application servers.
7. If you touch anything then it is a .net work and that means a dedicated sharepoint developer.
8. Storing all content within the db is shocking. Imagine maintaining 2TB database for even basic document management storage!!!! Whoa.. dba where are ya!!!!
9. One good thing is UI in 2007 is good. But most content/doc mgmt system's user interface has dramatically improved in their latest versions. This includes Documentum 5 and 6 and LiveLink 9.2, 9.5 and 9.7
LiveLink:
--------------
1. A massively scalable system with relatively small server footprints.
2. No need to even have an admin to be present once you get the infrastructure and modules in place.
3. Zero dba needed. Zero architect needed after inital work.
4. Very very very very low maintenance baby.
5. Can scale massively to ten's of terrabytes of data with just small footprint of front end web servers. Content stored externally means zero database worries.
6. Neat UI in their latest version a huge advantage
7. No standard/enterprise edition gimmicks
8. Strong support from even basic OpenText support. cheap becomes cheaper.
9. Licenses can be negotiated as low as $100 per user license.
10. Can be easily exposed to extranet's/internet via their servlet option.
11. OScript is a rare skill but with few API's to catchup, a developer can easily be trained on this.
12. Perhaps the most powerful workflow engine out there among cont/doc mgmt systems.
If I were to recommend, I will do LiveLink over anything. I have not worked in Documentum and so cannot comment on it.
Guru's please add your thoughts. I will listen to more who can disagree with me