Comments on: The Greatest Invention in Human History? http://www.c3associates.com/2007/04/the-greatest-invention-in-human-history/ Content + Context = Collaboration Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:05:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Greg Clark http://www.c3associates.com/2007/04/the-greatest-invention-in-human-history/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Greg Clark Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:34:42 +0000 http://www.c3associates.com/2007/04/04/the-greatest-invention-in-human-history/#comment-256 Hi CJ, It's difficult to put a specific number to the price companies are willing to pay for an ECM solution. It all depends on the nature of the problem they're trying to solve. As it stands currently, the general consensus seems to be that MOSS will be positioned as you suggest; as a UI to existing ECM repositories and / or as simply a BCS tool. However, there are many organizations that hope SharePoint can be an alternative to either their existing ECM system or will fit the bill where they don't have any ECM at all. Only time will tell if this is going to be successful. A core consideration is price point, which is one of SharePoint's major selling features. Hope this helps. Good luck with your MOSS integration efforts. Greg. Hi CJ,

It’s difficult to put a specific number to the price companies are willing to pay for an ECM solution. It all depends on the nature of the problem they’re trying to solve. As it stands currently, the general consensus seems to be that MOSS will be positioned as you suggest; as a UI to existing ECM repositories and / or as simply a BCS tool. However, there are many organizations that hope SharePoint can be an alternative to either their existing ECM system or will fit the bill where they don’t have any ECM at all. Only time will tell if this is going to be successful. A core consideration is price point, which is one of SharePoint’s major selling features.

Hope this helps. Good luck with your MOSS integration efforts.

Greg.

]]> By: CJ http://www.c3associates.com/2007/04/the-greatest-invention-in-human-history/comment-page-1/#comment-252 CJ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:54:02 +0000 http://www.c3associates.com/2007/04/04/the-greatest-invention-in-human-history/#comment-252 Very interesting posts. I am interested in your thoughts around what you think most organizations are willing to pay for an integrated MOSS 2007 and ECM solution. I am a vendor that interested in building a business around organizations that have ECM systems or require them, but are also looking to deploy or have already deployed MOSS in there organization to meet basic content services needs. It seems like the large players out there are integrating with MOSS as you say, and it seems as if they are going with two different integration point - archiving to an ECM repostiory and using the SP Portal UI as a front-end to the ECM back bone. Any comments or thoughts on this would be appreciated. Very interesting posts. I am interested in your thoughts around what you think most organizations are willing to pay for an integrated MOSS 2007 and ECM solution. I am a vendor that interested in building a business around organizations that have ECM systems or require them, but are also looking to deploy or have already deployed MOSS in there organization to meet basic content services needs. It seems like the large players out there are integrating with MOSS as you say, and it seems as if they are going with two different integration point – archiving to an ECM repostiory and using the SP Portal UI as a front-end to the ECM back bone. Any comments or thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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