Poll - Opinions on SharePoint

I'm looking for some opinions on people's experiences with SharePoint (specifically MOSS 2007).

Things like how easy is it to configure/manage. I've heard reports of places having documents corrupted - anyone seeing things like that? Is it worth the cost to you?

For me, the 3 main uses would be an Intranet that allow delegated content mgmt, document management, workflow. How does SharePoint stack up - what are the Windows based (no Linux please) alternatives?

Just looking for input from a group that's not stricly Microsoft.

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[kjv1611]

From my experience (user-level, sort of group admin/site editor, etc), I'd say that it depends. It is a pretty neat and powerful tool, but I do think that a lot has to go into it to make it successful:
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[li]Enough fully-trained staff to handle end-user site admin questions/requests[/li]
[li]At least one person or group who can handle custom programming tasks - for more advanced functionality - I suppose you could outsource that part if necessary.[/li]
[li]LOTS of reminders. I don't think my current company puts enough emphasis on it department nor company-wide in order to get the full benefit of it.[/li]
[/ul]

What do you already have? For instance, if you already have a working Intranet, then it might not be worth the headache and cost. I mean practically anyone can make a pretty decent looking and functioning site if they are willing to take the time and effort to do so. There are very simple and very advanced options avaailable.

At our company, we already have a working intranet that lots of time and money went into, I think. I think if our company were to put some effort into transferring the existing intranet site to Sharepoint, then it would accomplish the earlier things I mentioned. But then again, I'm sure it would require great costs - financially and time-wise.

Anyway, that's just my thoughts. You can make a very useful and very attractive site/document library/discussion forums, etc with this. There really ARE lots of options with it, but then weighing the costs, I'm personally not so sure just yet.

We've used Sharepoint sparingly since version 2003. At that point, it was very few groups who used it, and it was considered a testing phase. When 2007 came out, there was enough push behind it, so that they pushed it out company wide, and at first lots of interest. But for the most part, I don't think there has been enough interest.

Well, I'll stop rambling..

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