Comments on: Why move your business process from email to SharePoint?

By: Christian Buckley

Christian Buckley — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:11:47 +0000

You may also be interested in what is coming out of the Access team, and the new Access services in SharePoint.

For those making the transition from Notes to SharePoint (and Exchange), the addition of Access services is yet another great way to move people onto the Microsoft stack. Notes is not an apples-to-apples move to SharePoint, with most users finding it (relatively) easy to move to Exchange, but struggling to find a home for the many small database-centric apps on Notes. While not a migration path, Access services — bundled with InfoPath forms — offers some similar capability that will help resistant team members feel more comfortable in a Microsoft world.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:51:39 +0000

Hi Olaf,
Email as documentation “of communication” should only be considered for ad-hoc or emerging process definition (think CMMI level 1.) Email as documentation for a recurring process is a house-of-horrors exhibit – an archive full of email is like a server log file: yes – the information you’re looking for is there, but, if you’d like an answer to any question – even a simple one – you’ll have to work really hard to get it.

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By: Olaf Didszun

Olaf Didszun — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:46:35 +0000

E-mail is the silver bullet in many companies I’ve seen. It’s a good way, if we need do have a documentation of the communication, but for many processes I absolutely agree with you.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:48:21 +0000

Great article, Daniel!
I’ve seen these cases to many times at our clients, and this article sums it up quiet good. Definitely going to revisit this before my next meeting with a client.

By: Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:01:58 +0000

Amen brother, well said! There are simply better tools available.

I sometimes ask people … “If you needed to go to LA, would you walk to California in an ox drawn covered wagon? Yeah, exactly. That’s why airplanes were invented. So let me tell you why SharePoint was invented …”

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:01:14 +0000

Preach it!! This is some valuable gospel: “The moment that any recurring sequence of a value chain includes emailing someone and expecting an email response in order to continue, it becomes untraceable, immeasurable, and effectively out of control. ”
Amen!

By: Greg Appelt

Greg Appelt — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:57:58 +0000

Thank you Daniel. You’ve given me exactly the write-up I need to push my department to start using workflows, InfoPath forms, via SharePoint. (hope you don’t my cut-n-pasting your conversation into my Why/How-To instructions).