SharePoint Alternatives

The release of Microsoft SharePoint caused a lot of stir and excitement to a lot of people particularly those in the field of document management. What is great about the Microsoft SharePoint is that it can cover your needs when it comes to managing the contents in your system particularly the documents. However, the problem with Microsoft SharePoint is that it costs a lot and thus not too many people particularly those belonging to small enterprises can afford to have this kind of software installed in this system. For this reason, there are a lot of people who are looking for SharePoint Alternatives.

There are a lot of SharePoint Alternatives that are sold in the market and these include the O3Spaces, Alfresco and Intranet Dashboard to name a few. These alternatives are either web-based or open source which can be altered by the IT experts in your industry to make the software fit on the needs of your company. Basically, the thing about these SharePoint Alternatives is that they provide an alternative solution to the expensive Microsoft SharePoint thus these SharePoint Alternatives are either free or you pay for them on subscription basis at reasonable prices.

These SharePoint Alternatives still have the same features of the Microsoft SharePoint. They can function as desktop content management tools or they can be web content management tools. Unfortunately, unlike Microsoft SharePoint, the SharePoint Alternative do not usually have features that can do both web content and enterprise content. So if you are planning on using a SharePoint Alternative for your content management, you have to use two software to make it work.

Although this is the case, these SharePoint Alternatives have the same powerful features as those found on Microsoft SharePoint. You still get the same features like creating site templates, bulletins and so on for the web-based SharePoint alternatives while you get the calendaring, version controls and track changes for the desktop management tools.

However, the good thing about these Microsoft SharePoint Alternatives is that they do evolve year after year so that it might not be long when we encounter a birth of another SharePoint Alternative that can do both web content management as well as enterprise content management in one software. What’s more, that SharePoint Alternative might also be cheaper than what Microsoft has right now and until that time comes, I am pretty sure that people will really be waiting for it eagerly.