Reblog: When 'FREE' costs more in the long run: Why WebCenter often costs less than SharePoint - despite the stunning license price difference

An interesting blog post by Oracle Ace, Dmitri Khanine, about the hidden costs of a SharePoint deployment from 3rd party applications, and why WebCenter can be the right choice - costing less in the long run.

"Here're a few key areas where SharePoint clients are forced to rely on the outside vendors and expensive integration projects - to compensate for the lack of functionality:

• Reporting, auditing and workflow. While SharePoint offers some basic functionality in these areas, it is vastly inadequate and almost all clients are forced to compliment SharePoint with a mix of 3rd party solutions - for each of these 3 areas
• Digital Asset Management and Conversion - out of the box conversion to different formats on check in, image and video management and metadata extraction
• Document capture and scanning support is not included with SharePoint while Oracle WebCenter fully supports scanning.
• Record Management. SharePoint does not meet the DoD 5015.2 specification, a de-facto industry standard, and is lacking many important features"

-Dmitri Khanine

Read the full blog here

Read Oracle's Whitepaper  "SharePoint 2010 Cost of Ownership: Expect the Unexpected. How Oracle WebCenter Lowers Cost for User Engagement Solutions"

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