Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession
Think of SharePoint as the jack-of-all-trades in the business software realm. Companies use it to create Web sites and then manage content for those sites. It can help workers collaborate on projects and documents. And it has a variety of corporate search and business intelligence tools too.
Microsoft wraps all of this software up into a package and sells the bundle at a reasonable price. In fact, the total cost of the bundle often comes in below what specialist companies would charge for a single application in, say, the business intelligence or corporate search fields.
While Microsoft’s Windows sales fell for the first time in history this year, its SharePoint sales have gone up. Microsoft declines to break out the exact sales figures for the software but said that SharePoint broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year and continued to rise past that total this year, making it the hottest selling server-side product ever for the company.
Companies like Ferrari, Starbucks and Viacom have used SharePoint to create their public-facing Web sites and for various other tasks. All told, more than 17,000 customers use SharePoint.
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I would expect Sharepoint(MOSS2007) to gain significant ground, somewhat akin to the way Nokia became the biggest seller of cameras when they were really making phones all along. From implementations its clear that one size doesnt need to fit all but a little bit of collaboration goes a long way to making different BI tools play together nicely. Whats your take on the different tools playing in the same sandbox? Are we moving away from only one BI tool suite mentality to accepting its not a bad thing for more tools?
Asim Razvi
27 Oct 09 at 8:52 am
It was informative. I will definitely try it out on my business.
David Morson
17 Nov 09 at 9:54 pm
Tagetik 3.0 Enabled by Microsoft Sharepoint
Tagetik and Microsoft have partnered to deliver a complete solution that can support Performance Management (PM) & Financial Governance (FG) + extended Business Intelligence (BI) + Collaboration + Communication and leverage all the Microsoft and Tagetik technology frameworks.
Tagetik 3.0 Enabled by Microsoft Office Sharepoint has been created to support CFOs in today’s complex organizations that need new technological and organizational approaches.
More about Tagetik you find on http://www.tagetik.com/solutions/sharepoint
I think you have to insert Tagetik and the pmOne AG to your Categories as one of the biggest BI-Vendors in Europe, like BO, Actuate, Cognos, Microsoft, SAP, etc.
Best Tim
Tim
15 Mar 10 at 9:53 am