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About the Author
Ted Theodoropoulos is the President of Acrowire, an IT consulting firm specializing
in technology solutions for legal services. After 10+ years in several corporate
positions at Microsoft and Bank of America, Ted pursued his passion and business
full-time, driving tangible business results through technology. He helps firms
increase productivity and eliminate inefficiencies, ultimately accelerating growth
through SharePoint development, software development, business process
improvement, virtualization and cloud services. Contact Ted at ted@acrowire.com.
The App Model — Build
Alongside, Not On, SharePoint
Microsoft's latest release of SharePoint
represents a major milestone for the
product in terms of new capabilities
and adoption of industry standards.
While Microsoft has been touting their
commitment to industry standards for
some time now, SharePoint 2013 now
delivers on that promise with the new
"app model."
What's the difference between the old
"solution model" and the new "app model"? How
can law firms, legal departments and their enterprise
content management systems and processes benefit
from the app model? Firms are finding out building
alongside SharePoint is a better approach than
building on SharePoint.
SHAREPOINT AS A DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM
Many organizations that need to build custom Web
applications will default to a .NET or open source
architecture. While this approach makes sense in
many cases, using SharePoint as a framework brings
building blocks that can be leveraged to piece
together a Web application very quickly. These out-
of-the-box features address needs many law firms
have, including:
