English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

Ahh this week included more research!

Well as our team figured out we must locate more information on software and services that are similar to Microsoft's SharePoint. We did identify and dive into a couple of these, including GoogleApps and EMC Documentum. I found that Each of the technologies has its strengths and weaknesses. These features good and bad must be described in our whitepaper in order to accurately present the information we are attempting to portray.

I found that GoogleApps is great because it is online and is being developed on constantly, but this online aspect is also its main downfall.

EMC Documentum has a healthy feature set, but isn't as well known as the other two technologies discussed. With its platform independent architecture and cross format design it does stand out in comparison to SharePoints limited Microsoft format dependencies.

Microsoft SharePoint has a strong advantage because of its ability to connect to current Microsoft Office Suite products that many companies are already using. As stated above the main downfall for SharePoint is that Microsoft doesn't always play nice with many other formats out in the market today.

The thumbnails we finished this week will be put to use, and we will be able to create a great thumbnail using ideas from each of our group members original draft thumbnail. I look forward to completing our final design.

Thanks alot

Jason Flittner