We get a lot of questions from potential customers asking what the major differences are between Communifire and Microsoft SharePoint.
If you're looking for an alternative to Sharepoint, then you've come to the right place.Being in the social collaboration space, we've heard many stories and opinions from our customers and clients.
One of our customers who migrated to Communifire from Sharepoint has this to share:
"(SharePoint) is a monstruous "product" from rather clueless developers, that you don't want to look at too hard for fear of it breaking, with questionable documentation and completely inconsistent and unintuitive naming conventions. Compared to SharePoint, Communifire made our customizations completely streamlined and ongoing updates are simple to apply."
Another person said:
"Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC 2 are all powerful web development platforms. When you are forced to use SharePoint you have to drop back and lose a lot of this power. Sort of like living in the atomic age and being forced to use stone age tools."
The independent evaluation firm, CMS Watch, issued customer research indicating:
"Customers readily shared their frustrations: Redmond’s rather belated embrace of Web 2.0, SharePoint’s poor support for individuals working on multiple different teams, as well as its cumbersome and incomplete integration with Outlook."
SharePoint is often criticized for its lack of well integrated tools for developers and its complex customized software architecture that differs significantly from those of other ASP.NET-based web applications. Therefore, Microsoft announced significantly improved support in the upcoming version of Microsoft Visual Studio to improve the developer experience.
Tim is president and co-founder of Axero Solutions, a leading intranet software vendor. He's also a bestselling author of Who the Hell Wants to Work for You? Mastering Employee Engagement. Tim’s been featured in Fortune, Forbes, TIME, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur, CNBC, Today, and other leading publications.
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