<p>Many organizations are failing to reap the full benefits of Microsoft SharePoint, largely due toslapdash deployments and lack of expertise, according to recent research from the Bethesda,Md.-based Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM).</p><p>"Most [SharePoint] implementations are unplanned, underdeveloped, unloved, but not unpopular," AIIM President John Mancini said of the somewhat paradoxicalIndustry Watch report findings. "[SharePoint is] a core piece of infrastructure, [so] it's unusualhow serendipitous the whole deploymentstrategy has been for most organizations."</p><p>The report,entitled "The SharePoint Puzzle -- Adding the missing pieces," is based on survey responses from551 organizations. It finds that SharePoint is now being deployed for a host of reasons. Theyinclude collaboration, basic document management and file consolidation, and there is a fairly highdegree of user satisfaction in those areas, Mancini said.</p><p>But there is an "untapped expectations" angle, too: Mancini finds that user satisfaction fallsshort for the range of more complex domains that SharePoint covers, such as email integration --though SharePoint itself may not be entirely to blame. Mancini says many unsuccessful deploymentscan be attributed to poor implementation strategies and overinflated expectations.</p><p><a href="http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/news/2240174708/Hasty-deployments-threaten-SharePoint-platform-success">Keep reading...</a></p>