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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: How should we approach SharePoint development?


A: Not to answer a question with a question, but before you answer this question, you have understood that the SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, and frontend coding such as JavaScript and HTML do not meet your business requirements.

As the previous paragraphs stated, SharePoint development can be a sizable investment for organizations and it is important that your approach around development truly leverages SharePoint to provide value to the organization. So understanding the development costs of hiring expertise or providing a dedicated team for development, the cost of software licenses for development tools such as Visual Studio, Windows Server, and SQL Server are important, because return on investment questions should be asked. There are also additional hardware costs to support this development. To help support development, organizations also implement strict policies around what and how SharePoint development is implemented, such...