IBM Connections vs.

Microsoft SharePoint:
Why SharePoint is not the right choice for social business?
1. It is not social
Not designed in a people-centric fashion
Limited focus on external relationships
Lacks social analytics
2. It causes daaging !roliferation
Separate SharePoint deployments grow like weeds
Encourages document duplication
Causes significant governance and compliance challenges
". It is designed to create vendor loc#$in
Office Suite integration is the focus
No integration with non-icrosoft applications
!idden costs o"scured "y Enterprise #greements%Select #greements
&ollo'ing are the further details on functional basis:
Integration and Intero!erability:
$uilt on open standards and "eing a dedicated platform that is not dependent on the
larger Lotus platform% the way that SharePoint depends on Office
&$ Connections can "e easily integrated with S SharePoint% Outlook and Office
however the reverse is not possi"le
S SharePoint '()( uses a silo architecture and is file centric
Social Business:
*he new version of &$+s enterprise social networking software Lotus Connections
features widgets with social recommendations whereas SharePoint focused only on
documents, not social at all- Even after ac.uiring /ammer which has multiple clients, it
lacks full capa"ilities
(ocuent Manageent:
*here is no listing of all documents shared with the logged on user
*here is no listing of all pu"lic documents 0the logged on user1 have access to
*here is no easy way to share a document from 2Personal 3ocs2 to 2Shared
3ocs2
*here is not Social metadata around documents like% who are interested in the
document% is the document recommended% has it "een download% who has
recommended or downloaded it% and discussion around the document is missing
4sers are una"le to see each other5s tags and notes
Not easy to navigate to SharePoint home screen
6ile upload controls offers not functions to add social data
*here is not filtering capa"ilities to search for files
&iles Manageent:
6ile duplication 7 when adding files to a folder% Connections maintains one copy of the
file and simply shares the meta data- *his allows files to "e updated across all social
contexts or folders without creating duplicate copies of the file- 8ith SharePoint '()(%
this same action makes physical copies of the file% so if you lose the 9shared file:
concept% and all the social context 0tags% notes1 are lost
6ile sharing 7 Connections tracks how and when a file is shared "etween people- #s a
file is shared% Connections will keep track of the extended network of sharing to see
exactly who has the file across the whole enterprise- SharePoint does not track sharing
of documents in the file5s properties view
Personal vs- shared documents 7 SharePoint maintains two li"raries on your y Site 7 a
personal li"rary and a shared li"rary- Sharing files consists of emailing links% changing
permissions of the file% or moving documents from the personal li"rary to the shared
li"rary- Connections maintains one li"rary and controls sharing through a concrete
9sharing: paradigm
;lo"al view of shared documents 7 SharePoint does not have an aggregated view of all
user5s shared files- &nstead% one needs to navigate to each site to see the files-
Connections has such a view where you can see all the files your own and share in one
place
*agging 7 Connections includes the a"ility to tag files and other users will find your
pu"lic files using the tag 0via the tag cloud or search1- SharePoint also lets you tag files%
however those tags are not visi"le to others
Mobility:
SharePoint portal can only "e accessi"le from windows "ased mo"ile while &$
connections can "e accessi"le from multiple mo"ile-OS platforms such as< #pple-iOS%
$lack"erry-=&% ;oogle-#ndroid% and windows as well
Cost:
Licensing cost of SharePoint is much higher as compare the &$ connection "ecause
&$ offers different flavors 0internet feature is core part of it1 that suits to different si>e of
organi>ation while S ?ust came up with two offerings 0Standard% Enterprise 7 internet is
optional and has "een charged separately1
Why Choose IBM Connections?
1. Mar#et )eadershi! recogni*ed by I(C+ ,artner+ - &orrester:
a- &$ is @) in social software platforms 0*IDC, "Worldwide Enterprise Social Software
2011 Vendor Shares, Jun 2012, Doc 2!"2#!% ;artner agic Auadrant '()'1
"- BCD of 6ortune )(( companies have &$ Social Colla"oration Software
2. IBM .esearch - Innovation: