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Unfortunately, due to the high cost of introducing a SharePoint based solution, deployment often takes many months and up to 5 years. Achieving positive ROI can be a long journey. It is widely reported that SharePoint is known to be hard to update and maintain for non-technical users.
How are remote apps hosted in Sharepoint Cloud?
SharePoint “On-premise” hosted apps: An app is hosted entirely internally on a locally installed SharePoint environment. Remote apps hosted by Azure: Apps are hosted in Microsoft’s developer cloud service Azure. Provider hosted apps: Apps can be hosted anywhere, and written in nearly any language.
The platform offers a wide variety of features, but it is reported that SharePoint is hard to maintain. According to a report published by AIIM two-thirds of the organizations using SharePoint says that the major cause of low adoption rate includes inadequate user training and complexity in using the platform.
Why is SharePoint used out of the box?
Few organisations use SharePoint out-of-the-box as it was designed to be moulded to different business needs. Instead, SharePoint provides the building blocks for multiple types of enterprise solutions such as an intranet, portal, document manager and collaboration workspaces.
SharePoint is deeply embedded within the workforce of organizations. End users are already familiar with Microsoft. SharePoint has the same user experience as common Microsoft Office applications like Word and PowerPoint, so users feel comfortable adopting the familiar platform.
SharePoint has the same user experience as common Microsoft Office applications like Word and PowerPoint, so users feel comfortable adopting the familiar platform. Click to Tweet → Since many organizations are already seeing the ease-of-use from their users, choosing SharePoint as an ECM platform is a no-brainer.
Is the MS Office app compatible with SharePoint?
Unlike other intranet platforms, the tools created and saved through MS Office are instantly compatible with SharePoint. There is also the inclusion of app stores on this intranet solution, providing the opportunity to have custom apps which personalize the user experience for the business.
While there is no doubt that SharePoint ECM adoption is on the rise, the question of whether it provides a true enterprise content management capability continues to be a popular debate. SharePoint is deeply embedded within the workforce of organizations. End users are already familiar with Microsoft.