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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Q: Why does it seem that SharePoint requires more governance than other technologies?


A: This is partly because SharePoint is not a strictly defined product with a clearly defined beginning and endpoint in terms of user behavior, content, and IT deployment.

Note

SharePoint is like a "Swiss Army knife" of application platforms that has extreme versatility, so it does not fit neatly into one single software category in terms of its definition, functionality, or user approach. It also means that a company's investment in SharePoint can deliver more than just a "document management system" to the organization, and can also replace website technology, intranets, bespoke applications, and network drives. So SharePoint governance must be relevant to the user base and functionality, which will be different in different organizations because there could be a different deployment approach, other complementary technologies, and end users.

For example, a CRM system is pretty clearly defined. The user...