R – Integrating Interwoven Teamsite into SharePoint for Content Management

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I'm working on a roadmap to re-architect our corporate intranet, and I'm stuck on a hard decision around content management.

We own licences for Interwoven TeamSite, and we use it to manage our content for our externally-facing internet site, our main intranet, and a couple of big internal knowledge exchanges.

It's looking likely that I'll recommend Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 for the main platform for the intranet. I saw a demo yesterday of a great intranet based on SharePoint with the Microsoft CMS for content management, and I'd like to do something similar, except leveraging our current Interwoven installation.

Does anyone have any experience with this type of integration? Any 'gotchas' or lessons learned from integrating Interwoven and SharePoint?

Best Answer

No! Don't do it! SharePoint WSS 3.0 used to have crappy CM, so Microsoft best practice was to use MS ECM in conjunction. From 2007 on, MS built the CM platform into SharePoint. You will have a very hard time stripping the MS ECM out and cludging something else it. Besides, Interwoven isn't a top-quarter product. If you're using it in your company, start moving away from it. OpenText and MS make much better solutions.

In short, you're asking for trouble if you try and use Interwoven TeamSite for SharePoint's ECM - They DO NOT play well together.

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