SharePoint 2010 Opportunities in the Midmarket for Microsoft-Oriented ISVs

A Report by Mark R. Gilbert, James A. Browning

The capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MSS) related to document management, content management and collaboration have made basic functionality more accessible to midsize businesses. Feedback from midmarket clients indicates that SharePoint Foundation (Windows SharePoint Services [WSS] 4.0) is easy to use and provides "good enough" functionality. This had led to interest in evaluating the more advanced capabilities of MSS and the ability to build and integrate applications with their existing SharePoint environment.
Microsoft-oriented independent software vendors (ISVs) need to assess the costs and potential benefits of leveraging the SharePoint 2010 technology set and Microsoft ecosystem as a basis for both solution development and access to the Microsoft channel. Smaller vendors, in particular, will see their credibility increase among end users, as the issue of risk around vendor viability will be partly mitigated since the users will already have the skill set to maintain the content repositories, security and administration, workflow, database and related capabilities.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): True Business Agility for MDM

Join us for a webinar on February 16^th, Wednesday 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST

The coupling of a Master Data Management solution with a Service Oriented Architecture at its foundation is a powerful combination that provides a single, accurate, 360-degree view of the business in the most flexible and integrated manner—ensuring the seamless availability of your critical data to all of your strategic business applications across the distributed IT environment.

Join us on February 16th as Infogain hosts a FREE Webinar to explore the value proposition of an SOA-based infrastructure for a seamless and effective MDM architecture as well as tools and best practices to help you reduce time to value and reach your goals quickly. A recent client case study will be shared to provide valuable insight through business drivers, IT architecture and lessons learned.

During the webinar, you will learn how to:

• Adopt SOA as the foundation for your MDM architecture to create significant advantages, including increased ROI.
• Utilize design patterns to drive effective implementations.
• Lay an agile foundation for efficient usage and streamlined integration of Master Data.
• Leverage frameworks such as Oracle’s AIA Foundation pack to accelerate time to value.

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