Among other things, IT Leaders in law firms are tasked with keeping the lights on and driving innovation in the name of making our attorneys and users more efficient. So, the question needs to be asked: Why are firms continuing to install and advance SharePoint when in reality it has never really lived up to all the hype?
The tech world is buzzing about SharePoint 2013: the new interface, the new cloud and SkyDrive Pro features, document versioning, upgrade paths, and tighter integration with the Office Suite and Windows 7 and 8. The new SharePoint version seems great, but we need to step back and ask ourselves what is the added value that the collaboration software brings to the table especially given the enormous hard costs of hardware, licensing, customizing, and supporting it. The soft costs are also significant, such as lost productivity in learning another system, user uncertainty in saving documents in multiple locations, introducing multiple locations to search for documents, and user resistance to learning another system.
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