Pelz-Sharpe Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Day 4 UK Roadshow - more SharePoint indifference

17-Jun-2010

Tags: Document Management (ECM), SharePoint Ecosystem, European Marketplace, Industry Events, Marketplace at Large, Selecting Technology

So here we are in London, the last stop on the UK ECM roadshow. London is certainly the biggest and busiest of the four events, with more from the private sector than public sector at this one. I don't know if there has really been a theme today at all, much more mixed and random than the other shows. 

Some interesting conversations though.  For example, almost everyone has SharePoint in some form or another, but not one person I spoke to today considers that their main or central means of managing unstructured information. This resonates with not only what we ourselves have heard elsewhere, but also with quantitative research by AIIM.  Again the disconnect between the fever of the Microsoft SharePoint partner channel and more prosaic and measured attitudes of buyers appears acute. SharePoint is pervasive, but it's often more of a part of enterprise information plans, rather than an exclusive solution.

My thanks to everyone that came up and just said hello: those that knew me from my voice (AIIM BPM course), those who patiently listened to the story of why we changed our name from CMS Watch to Real Story Group, and the great many stories and insights you shared this past week. Thanks are also due to the Revolution Events (despite the decapitated rubber duck incident) and the AIIM UK teams -- great folk one and all.

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