SharePoint Success Will Take a Village

June 24th, 2008

Craig Le Clair Vice President, Principal Analyst

Rob Koplowitz

With contributors:

Kyle McNabb , Shelby Catino

Summary

With the introduction of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, Microsoft moved SharePoint well beyond its traditional roots in portal and collaboration. SharePoint now includes broad, robust middleware capabilities. Achieving business value with SharePoint investments requires methodical strategic planning to minimize risk and maximize potential benefits. This requires information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals to reach out and work with numerous other roles within the organization, and likely requires additional new headcount.

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