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Lars Bauer

Look beyond SharePoint when considering collaboration :: SearchVoIP.com.au - 0 views

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SharePoint alternatives connectors ECM software strategy collaboration

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  • When it comes to departmental file sharing or collaborative workspaces, Microsoft's SharePoint has legions of fans in midsized companies. But for those not interested in paying for SharePoint (the basic version is free), or who find some features immature in the latest version, there are SharePoint alternatives.
  • The move to MOSS 2007 seems to be natural once users install Office 2007.
  • Midmarket companies accounted for 35% of the respondents, and among this group, half said price was not an inhibitor for MOSS deployments. Although nearly half -- 46% -- said the price was higher than they expected.
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  • Microsoft estimates MOSS pricing at $US4,424 for a server license and $US94 per client access license (in the U.S.).
  • MOSS' capabilities range from basic collaboration to portal creation and business intelligence content management. Yet MOSS' breadth is both too much and not enough for some midmarket users.
  • While the portal capabilities in MOSS are mature, for example, some companies are holding off on what they perceive as less-developed features in the suite, such as social networking, enterprise search and Web content management capabilities. These companies are waiting until Microsoft releases the next version, Koplowitz said.
  • Another potential drawback is a dearth in skill sets, as well as a lack of SharePoint documentation coming from Microsoft
  • On the surface, SharePoint is easy to get off the ground, but he said he's finding that people quickly get in over their heads.
  • Although SharePoint appears to be on a lot of CIOs' agendas, midmarket businesses have plenty of other choices.
  • There's integration with enterprise content management systems.
  • There are also third-party add-ons
  • Open Text Corp., with its ECM suite, is another company that both competes and integrates with SharePoint.
  • Competing products and vendors in the Web 2.0 space include Jive Software's Clearspace business social community software, which has customers in the midsized market, and Atlassian Software Systems Pty Ltd. and Socialtext Inc. These started out as wikis but are broadening their community-based collaborative offerings.
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Reversing the Enterprise 2.0 Pricing Model - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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software enterprise2.0 pricing

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Alfresco ECM is 96% cheaper than legacy ECM vendors? | ecmarchitect.com - 0 views

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Alfresco Documentum ECM EMC OpenText SharePoint comparison costs software opensource

shared by Lars Bauer on 18 Jan 09 - Cached
  • If you are evaluating ECM solutions, particularly if you are interested in cost, you need to take a look at Alfresco’s TCO Whitepaper. In it, Alfresco uses licensing numbers they snagged from the United States government to compare the first year costs of their solution with EMC/Documentum, OpenText, and Sharepoint.
  • So what’s the fine print? Here are some considerations…
  • The paper shows that for document management plus collaboration and integration with SharePoint, you’d have to pay EMC/Documentum $863,937.98 for a 1000 user configuration as opposed to $318,738 for SharePoint and $33,500 for Alfresco for similarly-sized systems with equivalent functionality. Those numbers exclude the supporting infrastructure software.
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  • Alfresco does a good job of avoiding Marketing speak for the most part and simply laying out the facts.
  • The numbers Alfresco used are from a government price list. It isn’t clear to me whether those numbers are “list” or are a negotiated, reduced rate, but from my past experience with Documentum, I’d say they are closer to list.
  • A portion of the “first year’s cost” is maintenance and that recurs every year. For Alfresco you are only paying for maintenance, so the entire $33.5k will be due every year. Using the numbers from the whitepaper your Documentum maintenance bill would be about $115k every year.
  • Alfresco showed a 2-CPU configuration for their 1000-user config priced at $33,500 which included a test server. Then they showed a “high availability” config with a $9,250 up-charge. But they didn’t double the procs. If you’re going to be HA, you’ll need at least two of everything.
  • Lars Bauer on 18 Jan 09
     
    Jan 9, 2009
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Sorry Westlaw and Lexis - The Days of Passing Charges to Clients Are Numbered | 3 Geeks... - 0 views

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law-firms research online-research costs billing trends

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  • Over the past 25+ years, the model of passing through the expense of online legal research to the client created a system where operating profits for the vendor were over 30%, and law firms felt immune to the total costs of using online research. Clients were paying the majority of the costs of online research, but had no voice in setting the price negotiated between firms and the vendors.
  • At one time, it was common for firms to charge clients more than they were paying the vendor for the online research product, and were able to make an additional profit. When the Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibited these charges with Rule 1.5, many firms implemented a 100% recovery model where online resources could only be used if the charge could be passed to the client.
  • ost say that over the past 10 years, the percentage that the firm is paying out of pocket has steadily increased from under 10% out of pocket costs, to now almost 50% out of pocket cost.
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  • Firms are now scrambling to cut costs of online resources by either cutting subscriptions, or going back to models requiring that online resource tools only be used when that cost can be passed through to the client. With firms now considering alternative fee arrangements with clients, the model of passing online research costs to clients will come under even more scrutiny.
  • Alternative fee agreements and the general move away from the generic hourly-billing rate will mean that firms will need to have a different negotiating strategy with the online legal research vendor. No longer will online research be seen as a pass-through cost to the client. Because the client will not be paying the attorney by the hour, they will not buy the idea that online charges are saving them money because it saves the attorney time. Clients will say that firms will need to bear the burden of the online research because, if it truly saves them time, then that means they should be able to spend less time on the client’s matter, thus the savings is really a benefit to the firm.
  • Those 30% profit margins are not sustainable as alternative fees become a larger percentage of how law firms generate revenue.
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A New Wiki for MOSS Beats the Built-In Version - CMSWire - 0 views

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enterprise2.0 software SharePoint extensions wikis KWizCom reviews

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  • KWizCom is a Canadian company that specializes in Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics CRM solutions. You could compare them to Bamboo Solutions when it comes to the number and types of web parts and add-ons they have for SharePoint.
  • Their latest solution is the Wiki Plus for SharePoint - for both MOSS Standard and Enterprise Editions. It is built on top of the MOSS infrastructure so it's tightly integrated with the full SharePoint functionality.
  • What's Different From the MOSS built-in Wiki?
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  • There's a lot more here to look at. For the price, this does seem like a viable alternative to get wiki functionality into your SharePoint environment. Of course, there are other alternatives, including Atlassian's Confluence, SocialText and even an open source enhanced wiki on CodePlex.
  • You can download a trial of the Wiki Plus solution or just buy it straight out for US$ 2,380.00
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Spending money is better than saving it on ECM and CMS - Acqal.com - 0 views

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ECM CM software opensource proprietary Documentum Interwoven Drupal Typo3 prices strategy

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FUMSI - Enterprise Information Architecture: A View From The Legal World - 0 views

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ECM IA IT KM enterprise-search law-firms strategy

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  • Like many organisations, law firms have an odd relationship with information.
  • And because they know it's important they are loathe to delete anything (just in case)...
  • Multiple repositories and systems, multiple offices and locations, multiple content processes and procedures leads to an excess of information and knowledge - all of it potentially valuable, but much of it virtually impossible to actually find at the time a lawyer or information professional needs it.
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  • What Have Law Firms Done?
  • Even with these IT and KM investments in law firms, it seems the frustrations remain: I can't find anything. It takes too long to find what I need.
  • What is ‘The Answer'?
  • the focus of law firms over the last decade has been absolutely correct: to concentrate on people and processes through KM, and on new information technologies and tools through their IT budgets. But maybe there's a third prong that's been missing from this focus? The messy middle: the content assets, the actual information itself contained in documents, e-mails, web pages, blogs, journals, books, video and podcasts etc.
  • The huge investments for enterprise search - providing lawyer and legal information professional alike with a single search box sitting over multiple repositories and offices - have certainly seen great improvements in uncovering information within a law firm.
  • Developments out there on the Web in faceted search (e.g. filtering a search for cameras by brand, price and resolution) have begun to seep through the walls of our firms and organisations.
  • Enterprise search has started to uncover some of the mess that we didn't even know was there. As well as showing, rather too starkly, the mess that we haven't wanted to deal with over the years: the poor tagging of content with useful terms or even consistent terms across different repositories; the lack of rigorous info management processes to identify the valuable, useful and re-usable information, or equally, to identify the duplicate, out-of-date or inaccurate information.
  • law firms are now thinking and willing to invest in ways to actually clean and fix some of this information mess. Reviewing and improving a firm's Enterprise Information Architecture (or Firmwide IA) through an information housekeeping initiative is becoming a priority. What does that involve?
  • Well-defined and understood business rules and workflow for the firm's information and knowledge are essential components to Firmwide IA
  • Systems & Tools
  • Information & Information Architecture Assets
  • Governance
  • The benefits of investing in Firmwide IA and these four themes, may be broadly stated as:
  • What happens now?
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