Lou Franco's ECM Imaging Blog

While Atalasoft in Boston (at SPTechCon) this week, showing our Document Viewer for SharePoint, there was more SharePoint news across town at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. Fierce Content Management is reporting on Christian Finn’s comments about SharePoint.

When it comes to document management, Finn [Microsoft’s Director of SharePoint] says they might not have as comprehensive an offering as say EMC Documentum, but what his company does is provide an easy path for people to manage documents. You just right-click, access the document management features and you're on your way. He's not concerned that people consider it a "light weight" or "good enough" offering. "We are not as good as best of breed," he says "but we're OK." He adds that they provide integration to the more comprehensive content management solutions for organizations that require that.

He says ultimately the numbers speak for themselves. "It's a question of positioning," he says. "We have 100 million licenses and 17 thousand enterprise customers. Any vendor can say SharePoint does a lot of things, but not well, but customers are voting with their dollars to deploy it."

With CMIS, and the fact that they are a platform, Microsoft doesn’t need to offer the best product out of the box – they have the easiest to extend ECM platform, and that’s how they will win.