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Evaluating SharePoint 2010 as a Content Management Platform

22-Jul-2010

Tags: Document Management (ECM), SharePoint Ecosystem, Web Content Management, Intranets, Selecting Technology, SharePoint 2010 WCM

With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has strongly promoted the platform's upgraded content management capabilities. Now that the hype is died down, and there are production implementations in the field, it's possible to take a harder look based on real customer experiences.

So what did we find? On the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) side, SharePoint offers broad functional enhancements along with some some surprising deficiencies. On the Web Content Management (WCM) side, platform improvements have come more in degree than kind.

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    Excerpt from the SharePoint 2010 WCM Evaluation

    Web Content Management Report looks at... Publishing and Deployment Services in SharePoint 2010

    "In SharePoint, publishing strictly works one way; you cannot do reverse publishing from target to source. This is okay for traditional publishing, but this may become a problem if your site has user-generated content that must be published back to the staging environment..."
    (p. 474)

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