I just read a proposal for a services company to migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Sharepoint. Recalling all issues related to the Notes application development At the start I thought that this is not a terrible thought. While surveillance the proposal further I started to be with you: Sharepoint is the last frontier of business services. There are a lot gold to be found, because there are plenty of applications that have been developed (coded) to run with Sharepoint, such as document management, management cases, CRM, reporting and performance dashboards and others. Sharepoint does not really do much by itself it seems.
Sometimes we have the problem that generous service organizations to flee the platform of papyrus as an option to replace Lotus Notes or as an alternative to SharePoint. Why might that be? Because it is so hard to apply? Absolutely not. Exactly the opposite is the case. Use Papyrus reduced service revenue of a service company. Instead of a generous number of programmers needed Few business analysts and project managers. Most service organizations are not that many people in this area of skill. But they have many programmers.
Step into the shoes of a sales manager for a service company and outsourcer. If you could sell to a customer:
- The platform can papyrus be implemented by two consultants in 6 months and left the company in charge;
- or, to sell three to ten times the manpower of the project, fee of 50% add-on software and the forces of this business relationship into a long term contract;
… Which would you choose?
I would not trust services IT or software organizations that offer generous departments and long lists of partners to be profitable, because it simply means that there are a lot of labor and service costs coming your way. Service or labor is an investment, but as the fuel is burning a car. Imagine someone saying, "No I switch to a better car, because I have a lot invested in this fuel. "Every person is pretty stupid believe.
That's like saying, 'We can not migrate this application (Notes, FileNet, MS-Office, Documentum, …) because we spend each year, millions of services to keep it going. But surprisingly exactly the phrase I hear each day. Yes, some of which would be a excellent investment if, for example, business processes have been well analyzed and well documented. In most cases the processes are veiled surrounded by a piece of code or a spaghetti tangle of workflows and standards. Of poorer quality if it is a mixture of ECM, BPM, CRM products wired together by an external supplier through EAI or SOA.
Microsoft and Adobe, and all xmls, PDFs and other standard products open 'a trap service revenues. As soon as you have to write a single line of ADD-ON Java or C # code becomes the owner. His opening level is defined by the weakest element in its application. With SharePoint you are wedged on Windows, too. Papyrus uses the difference a document repository and deploy applications built on a levelheaded architecture Business to ten different operating systems. We at ISIS Papyrus protect your investment on the platform by allowing the fee list-cross-degrees and exchanges of products, but also in its applications in WebRepository fully documented.
While I believe that much of the slogan Going Green is no exaggeration, in view of the fact that no energy-intensive, one thing we can learn from this movement. The green solution is not do less (back to the caves) of what to do, but to reverse the technology to do what is most well-organized. The automation and efficiency does not mean dismissing a lot of people, but to do excellent – to each customer – the first time. Which is not only well-organized, but will give loyal customer relationships. SharePoint is not a technology well-organized, but rather as a fuel huge and clumsy, high consumption SUV (remember VISTA?) the needs of farms and a major buyer of labor services to do.
Many years ago I worked with a Danish company that sells IBM AFP printers compatible add-on card and IPDS. I forgot his name, but remember that this line of its general director of a meeting of business partners, "Yes, IBM is a huge cheese, but that gives us the opportunity to fill the gaps." Well, plainly SharePoint is the nearest cheese and there are hordes of buyers of services and service companies waiting to fill the holes. And users will pay the fee ….
About the Author:
Max J. Pucher
is the founder and current Chief Architect of
ISIS Papyrus Software
, a globally operating company that specializes in Artificial Intelligence for
business process and communication
. He has written several books, frequently speaks and writes on IT and holds several patents.
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