What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?

[reghakr]

For being the fastest growing server product at Microsoft, SharePoint is still largely misunderstood. There’s no question its one of Microsoft’s most important enterprise products, contributing more than $1 billion to the company’s coffers. Yet, as CEO Steve Ballmer himself acknowledged this week, SharePoint an “unsung hero.â€Â￾
In part, SharePoint is unsung because it’s a complex and ambitious product. It’s not just a content management system or an enterprise social-networking product, or an intranet search system. It’s six different servers bundled into a single back-end for Microsoft Office. There are Link Removed due to 404 Error contributing to the product. It has provided system integrators, consultants and other partners with a lot of business because it has been Link Removed.
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[Shigemichi]

There's a very large demand for architects with Sharepoint design, integration, and development in the PA area. I find the most difficult phase of a Sharepoint integration is the development phase, after the deployment and migration phases.