Issue link: https://epubs.iltanet.org/i/37773
“Take a realistic look at all the available resources, and seek an efficient means of deployment, so you can hit the target before it moves.” fees. Consider that SharePoint Standard or even Foundation, which is free, may be all you need. Enterprise Server includes substantial benefits, but also includes a substantial price tag, as do more advanced components like the FAST Search Server. Now is also the time to look at your human resources. Your firm may already employ staff members with considerable SharePoint expertise, or who are capable Web developers. You may have attorneys devoted to KM, or practicing advisors. Your IT team may also have a history of successful user interface deployment. On the other hand, perhaps none of these statements apply to your firm. Recommendation: Take a realistic look at all the available resources, and seek an efficient means of deployment, so you can hit the target before it moves. No one solution is right for every firm, but your resource assessment may prompt you to “buy 16 Portal Platforms ILTA White Paper and customize” rather than “build from scratch” to avoid the pitfalls that can keep your project stuck in a planning phase. 3. DEVELOP YOUR CUSTOMIZATION STRATEGY. SharePoint 2010, for all its merits, is ultimately a building platform. Out-of-the-box, it doesn’t know how to build relationships among different types of data, but you can teach it to speak legal. Recommendations: • Think beyond matter centricity: A goal for any modern legal intranet will undoubtedly be the ability to display or at least link to all aspects of a particular matter. But that’s just one way to slice your data. You can also filter and display data based on clients, departments or offices.