I wonder if that is why it worked as opposed to why it sold. At least, as one of the users in that time it seems to me that the itch was the document repository with some features, and the rest was fluff for purchasing to sign off on.
All the calendar, task, website stuff ended up dying away, because what we really needed was a good document management system, with optionally some simple signoff loops and notifications.
That was great. Yes, it was just unix like tools with a window. That is the craigslist of os improvements.
It really was the use case, but the simple one. I saw plenty of power users try to do complex and ultimately fragile uses that died away.
In the case of this user, I love the idea of turning an email to an action, but I also need to add that to my action board and assign it, and check people time, at which point the simple action only makes sense for individuals, not teams or orgs. and I need to add a couple missing actions, and summarize. So suddenly the all in one is a marginally useful tool that is also a straightjacket. And then I go back to outlook and jira and excel and trelli or whatever.
> All the calendar, task, website stuff ended up dying away, because what we really needed was a...
That's part of my point: the sales strategy was brilliant. Whether or not SharePoint's built in calendar or Project Server integration made sense is almost secondary; they understood how to sell it.
All the calendar, task, website stuff ended up dying away, because what we really needed was a good document management system, with optionally some simple signoff loops and notifications.
That was great. Yes, it was just unix like tools with a window. That is the craigslist of os improvements.
It really was the use case, but the simple one. I saw plenty of power users try to do complex and ultimately fragile uses that died away.
In the case of this user, I love the idea of turning an email to an action, but I also need to add that to my action board and assign it, and check people time, at which point the simple action only makes sense for individuals, not teams or orgs. and I need to add a couple missing actions, and summarize. So suddenly the all in one is a marginally useful tool that is also a straightjacket. And then I go back to outlook and jira and excel and trelli or whatever.