Best Practices for Collaborative Portals
I recently published an article (11/16) in the print/online editions of .NET Developer's Journal about Best Practices for Collaborative Portals. It includes case study information from a financial services client.
SharePoint 2007 - Best Practices for Collaborative Portals — It was the usual story: a short deadline and a tight budget. The client's internal staff said 'No way' to build the Web-based application in fewer than six months, with any fewer than three full-time resources. The project needed to be completed in two months. It included custom authentication, collaboration, business rules, and forums. Therefore we chose SharePoint 2007 as the development platform and configured the solution to handle 80% of the functionality. Where SharePoint could not meet the requirements through configuration, we developed custom code to complete the other 20%. Herein we'll detail some best practices and lessons learned from our implementation.
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