Which is a natural concern, with all the different web parts and scripts that’s being injected SharePoint portals these days. To end Monday off (in my neck of the woods anyway), I thought I’d make a quick post on what I do in my projects.

SharePoint is really a collection of capabilities. At its heart, it is a Portal that exposes information customized for a particular user. It has extended functionality to quickly build features inside this portal to enable Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Search. It has ventured into Social Computing and Collaboration by creating shared work spaces, supporting blogs and wikis and allowing people search. With the inclusion of PerformancePoint in its licensing, it also becomes a strong Business Intelligence offering, though it will require expanded knowledge of that capability to implement. It starts to break down when pushed to work as a Business Process Management Suite or Application framework.

Increasingly companies have adopted Governance as a way to control the roll out of SharePoint in their organisation. This has resulted in SharePoint Governance taking on a life of its own; with a proliferation of white papers, blogs posts, conference sessions, consultancy engagements and even training workshops dedicated to the subject.