"The whole is more than the sum of its parts", so said Aristotle; Not so for SharePoint!
When SharePoint emerged on the scene, it was originally aimed at the Intranet Portal market and considered by many to be a packaged solution strictly for portals and collaboration. While the SharePoint platform has lived up to this promise, we at ShareSquared view the product as far more valuable than originally conceived.
SharePoint comprises a suite of architectural services that work in concert to make enterprise portals come alive, however, these services can also be used to build general purpose line of business applications. In essence, the SharePoint platform represents a powerful Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that includes:
These rich architectural services can be combined in part or in total to rapidly create conventional line of business applications with the same features and robustness of traditional SharePoint portal implementations. If your organization is contemplating building a line of business application, why not mine the services in SharePoint and use them as the underlying architecture for your custom application.
Please contact us for more information on how ShareSquared has helped myriad customers utilize SharePoint and its companion products to build enterprise line of business applications.