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IBM or Microsoft For Collaboration - Or Both?

Knowledge Asset Overview

Started: 5 Feb 08 by CT00192   -  Medias: 1   -  Views: 1404   -  Subscription:

Author: Erica Driver and Rob Koplavitz

"Choosing a collaboration platform - which often comes down to two vendors, IBM and Microsoft - is a highly strategic technology decision that has wide-reaching infrastructure and architecture implications. Often it is fraught with political and technical landmines because the decision touches on many related technology areas and people in a wide variety of business and IT roles tend to get involved. To make the most well-rounded, fully thought out decision, narrow your choices down to two main vendors. Then analyse how each vendor stacks up in terms of: 

1. fit with your enterprise collaboration strategy 
2. fit with your applications and infrastructure standards 
3. fit with your enterprise content management (ECM) strategy 
4. your desktop and office productivity standards and refresh cycles 
5. vendor support for a coexistence strategy 
6. cultural fit"