Evaluating Native SharePoint Services

Based on our heralded SharePoint Research, this course will enable you to assess whether, where, and how to use SharePoint, based on the product's inherent strengths and weaknesses. It will also prepare you for developing a SharePoint strategy for your enterprise, empowering business and technology managers to reach a common assessment of what SharePoint can and can't do effectively for your enterprise.

For more details, including learning objectives, download the course Fact Sheet (PDF).

Outline

Modules included in this course:

• What Is and Isn't SharePoint 2007
• SharePoint Architecture for Business Managers
• Evaluating SharePoint's Core "Six Pillars"
• Evaluating SharePoint for Social Computing

Who should take this course

• Business analysts -- to learn what SharePoint does and doesn't offer out of the box, and what are the likely costs
• Information and Knowledge Managers -- to compare SharePoint against other information and knowledge management tools in your enterprise
• SharePoint project managers, senior architects, and lead developers -- to understand what you're about to get into, with respect to architectures, licensing, and functionality
• SharePoint evaluation teams -- to level-set understanding and terminology among the team, and make more informed choices about whether and where to employ SharePoint
• Enterprise architects and IT managers -- to better guide business colleagues about choices and impacts before they try to dive into SharePoint unawares
• Consultants -- to understand where SharePoint works well, and where it does not, provding more value to clients
• Anyone considering implementing SharePoint and wanting to know what it does and doesn’t provide out of the box
• Individuals looking to take our follow-on SharePoint course on SharePoint in the distributed enterprise, of which this first course is a recommended pre-requisite

What's not covered

• Specific technical how-to's
• Discussion of governance, ecosystem, enterprise operations - all covered in our second SharePoint course, "Evaluating SharePoint for Enterprise Deployment"