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SharePoint: PLM and Widget Libraries

SharePoint: PLM and Widget Libraries
Oleg
Oleg
18 March, 2011 | 1 min for reading

What do you think about SharePoint? During the last few months, I’m getting this question very often. After my post – CAD, PLM and End of Microsoft Dominance, this question is normally combined with the following one – Do you believe in Microsoft? My simple answer is yes. The majority if CAD and PDM/PLM products are running Windows platform these days. Obviously, the absolute majority of customers is running on Wintel boxes. And if you have money and customers, you can fix everything.

I have people asking me if SharePoint can be considered as PDM/PLM software. My usual answer is no. SharePoint is a great platform running on top of Microsoft Windows Server. It includes a very interesting “free product” – WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) or how it called Microsoft SharePoint Foundation in SharePoint 2010. If you decide to take SharePoint path in your PLM implementations, you can combine standard product offering coming from companies like PTC, Siemens PLM and others with the libraries of components that can be used to customize SharePoint. I found good examples of SharePoint widgets on this Syderis community on codeplex. Navigate your browser to the following link to see a list of SharePoint widgets and some guidance how to use them with your SharePoint.

What is my conclusion? SharePoint is great if you’re prepared to handle it. It is free to install, and as some of my readers stated in comments this week, some customers are successfully keeping WSS to get a job done. However, SharePoint can expose you to a significant amount of service expenses. You better be prepared. Make your home work, prepare widgets, resources and people to make your SharePoint implementation successful.

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