Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders

Part 1 of 2 - Microsoft SharePoint Collaboration Software.

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on May 2, 2007

If you would like to learn why Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software might be coming of age, this interview is for you. (Part 1 of 2).As everyone knows, Microsoft introduced its long-awaited Vista Operating System earlier this year. Along with it, they launched a new version of their Office Suite of products (Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook, and etc). One of the key points of Office ‘07 is that enables significantly enhanced versions of Microsoft’s collaboration software, SharePoint for asynchronous collaboration and LiveMeeting for synchronous meetings.

This interview is about SharePoint. It is divided into two parts.

In the first part our guest provides a summary of SharePoint and gives some illustrations by example. In the second part he tells us why SharePoint seems to be coming of age now, as opposed to when earlier versions were available, and what some to the remaining drawbacks might be.

Our guest today is Peter O’Kelly who is the Research Director at The Burton Group. His company is an IT consulting and market research firm specialized in computer and telecommunications software.