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    <p>Microsoft Sharepoint should be thought of as two things</p> <ul> <li>An out of the box solution for sharing and collaboration in a network</li> <li>A Development platform.</li> </ul> <p>Out of the box, Sharepoint can give you document management, discussion groups, notifications/alerts, integration with Reporting Services, Performance Point, Infopath and various other products, but at its heart Sharepoint wants to be a portal. A portal into all the information and all the applications that your business has. It has features for showing structured/relational data from any database (with limits), searching for data, crawling for data. It has a fairly comprehensive security system etc.</p> <p>Secondly and in some cases more importantly Sharepoint is a development platform/ framework built on top of asp.net.<br> It gives developers a lot of different tools they can use to create workflow/ collaboration/document management and custom application. </p> <p>The dual nature of the product and how it is pitched can lead to some confusion.</p> <p>Furthermore there are really two different product, Windows Sharepoint Services and Sharepoint Portal. One is free with Windows, and the other is pretty darn expensive.</p> <p>It is not a good idea to try and use Sharepoint as a code versioning tool. Though I am sure it could be done it is not really structured for it.</p> <p>Microsoft has Team Foundation Server (which integrates with Sharepoint) for that need.</p> <p>I have seen it used for bug tracking at a number of my clients. It is not the best tool you can find, but it gets the job done.</p> <p>Creating an repository of custom forms, that an end user can create, and then track changes and data submitted etc, is one thing Sharepoint does fairly well upto a certain complexity.</p> <p>You can start out just creating a custom list, then you can move into Infopath integration for more complex forms and validation and from there you can move into custom development for even more complex forms.</p>
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