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By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:03:52 +0000

Great article. Thanks.

The big problem I have with most of the alternatives is document management as Harvey points out. The thing I like about Sharepoint is Document Libraries. The ability to create alternative views and add metadata to a document. I’d love to find something else that does that without the overhead of Sharepoint.

By: Karri Bishop

Karri Bishop — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:04:29 +0000

In reply to Sean.

Hey Sean- I’ve not done any recent comparisons, but one of our Tech Advisors would be happy to help you find a solution. https://technologyadvice.com/contact-us/

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:21:49 +0000

Hi Aleks. After reading and re-reading this articles over the last 18 months I’m once again at the point where I’m desperately need to choose a direction. Where SharePoint is well placed is in the small (20-100 computer) organisations that have a need to easily handle all of the documents, CMS, Public Facing websites, data gathering and workflow requirements. Many of my clients are finding that the cloud solutions are beginning to be expensive and so a once-off purchase price is more attractive and knowing that the data stays on premise is also important. I’m still looking for a decent alternative after having considering all of the options you’ve put forward and the time is running out for a SharePoint alternative. Microsoft is hell-bent on moving our clients onto their Azure platforms. They are aggressively marketing directly to our traditional client base and so we need to plan for a Post-Microsoft future. This is not a cost issue, it is an issue of needing to protect my future income from a world where my supplier cuts me off from my revenue stream. Slowly I’m seeing the signs of all support and products migrating to a Cloud Only base. This is not something I can support in the long run.

Have you done any recent reviews that considers other options?

By: Aleks Peterson

Aleks Peterson — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:20:18 +0000

In reply to Harvey. Interesting take, Harvey. Appreciate your feedback.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:15:09 +0000

It could be argued that most of what Sharepoint does is and can gradually being replaced with niche, focused solutions: Quip + Slack + Calendly + Discourse, etc. Part of the problem is we now have even more cloud-based apps that contain siloed data.

A lot of Sharepoint deploys just use it for “managing” documents. Badly at that.

IMHO, the real replacements for Sharepoint should probably be focused around documents and the documentation process flow — approvals, sharing, discovering and the like.

Any tool you do pick nowadays needs to handle external participants — something that most tools (especially Sharepoint) might not address fully.

At Documize we’ve been trying to solve this problem for the many enterprise that still struggle to compose, discovery and share knowledge. With all these tools, we need to focus on selecting tools that help establish a enterprise-wide knowledge backbone, giving our employees everything they need to achieve faster business outcomes.

By: William (Bill)

William (Bill) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:17:23 +0000

Great article..

Do any of these solutions provide migration tooling to move data and content from SharePoint to their solution? Are there third-party solutions that provide migration tools to these solutions?

Thanks, in advance, for your responses.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:08:05 +0000

I work for a fortune telecommunications company we had a combo of Sharepoint 2010 and Documentum, we also adopted Centralpoint by Oxcyon about two years ago, it’s been working far better than expected, almost every department in the organization uses it now to manage their home screen, corporate centrally manages all the information and sends it down to each department. We are in the process of migrating all documents to their new DITA suite of modules, everyone is looking forward to it. The search is Centralpoint is 10x better than in Sharepoint it actually allows you to find what you are looking for.

By: Antonin

Antonin — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:01:21 +0000

In reply to Daniel.

The answer is yes…more details below.

Your scenario sounds in the realm of DITA…I’ve seen a new technology by Oxcyon where documents are created as snippets and while having full version control for editing…across multiple sites…people can manage the document so someone signing in from California vs. Ohio would get a different legal disclaimer for example. The cool thing about the system is that the documents are not managed as different office versions….THEY ARE MANAGED in the CMS and when someone wants a copy of the document…they click the word document to get the most recent updated doc. That could remove the whole Office version fiasco of people not being able to open old vs. new and all that insanity.

Bring it into a system, centralize it, and clean it up so everyone can get it in the end. I believe it also supports export on command to pdf / word / excel / access / etc. using this technology. I think it is the data cleaner of the future. Also, the system can be hosted internally and you would get bi-weekly code / module updates. In that sense you could be behind a firewall and still update the system with a few clicks every week (or automate it).