Problem with Sharepoint (as an intranet platform)

Problem with Sharepoint  (as an intranet platform)

Problem with Sharepoint compared to other tools like Chatter/ Chatterbox
and Tibbr is that it’s notorious to deploy out of the box and requires a
lot of development and admin investment. Sharepoint is really just a
development platform that allows businesses to create specific solutions. It’s the main reason companies like Salesforce, Box and TIBCO are
winning in the enterprise social network stakes because you don’t need
dedicated resources to build, tweak and develop, to borrow a phrase from
Apple ‘they just work’.

Acquiring Yammer thinking it can just bolt it on and make good things happen is a strategy stuck in the 90s.
It's mobile functionality it somewhat clunky
as well and in this current aggressive and fast paced software economy
it’s unforgivable.

Intranets are dead
The intranet of old was a place where corporates shared content with
their staff. Today’s intranet also needs to be a place where employees
engage each other. The intranet remains, the design imperative has
changed.

Bringing the social web into the enterprise

What does it mean? Well – for one the baseline has shifted. It’s no
longer enough to provide sophisticated content management platforms
which allow document sharing, collaborative working and central
repositories. Today’s intranet needs to have peer-to-peer engagement and
multi-channel communications embedded at their very core.