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title: "Reblog: When 'FREE' costs more in the long run: Why WebCenter often costs less than SharePoint - despite the stunning license price difference"
description: "Reblog: When 'FREE' costs more in the long run: Why WebCenter often costs less than SharePoint - despite the stunning license price difference"
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# [Reblog: When 'FREE' costs more in the long run: Why WebCenter often costs less than SharePoint - despite the stunning license price difference](https://www.teamim.com/blog/2013/03/20/reblog-when-free-costs-more-in-the-long-run-why-webcenter-often-costs-less-than-sharepoint-despite-the-stunning-license-price-difference)

 Written by [teaminformatics](https://www.teamim.com/blog/author/teaminformatics) | March 20, 2013 at 1:56 PM

<https://www.teamim.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/idk.jpg>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  
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[Read the full blog here](http://stellentexperts.blogspot.nl/2012/12/when-free-costs-more-in-long-run-why.html)

Read Oracle's Whitepaper  ["SharePoint 2010 Cost of Ownership: Expect the Unexpected. ***How Oracle WebCenter Lowers Cost for User Engagement Solutions"***](http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/webcenter/sharepoint-cost-of-ownership-1508591.pdf)

If you would like to have TEAM build your WebCenter Roadmap and show you the cost savings, [contact us today!](https://www.teaminformatics.com/contact/)

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