<p>God knows people love SharePoint. In fact, if you Google "love SharePoint," you'll get 430,00 results. Among them, you'll see images of t-shirts, teddy bears, coffee mugs and even a few tattoos emblazoned with the phrase "I SharePoint."</p><p>In 2012 Microsoft hosted "SharePoint Saturdays" in more than 43 cities worldwide from Boston to Belgium, New York to Nairobi, Dayton to Dublin Enthusiasts gave up a day on the golf course, skiing, shopping, watching a ball game or spending time with the family to attend these events. I think it's fair to say that SharePoint has a large, passionate group of followers.</p><p>According to Wikipedia, 78% of Fortune 500 companies use the platform for things like intranet portals, document and file management, collaboration, social networks, extranets, websites, enterprise search and business intelligence. Simply put, a majority of Information Workers are familiar with SharePoint.</p><p>So if you're a software vendor whose user community deals with documents, offering some sort of SharePoint integration capability is practically a must. That being said, a good number of Enterprise Document and Enterprise Content Management companies choose, or chose, to compete with the Microsoft platform instead. Box, Alfresco, And Some Other ECM Vendors Initially Combatted SharePoint</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/sharepoint-love-so-big-emc-documentum-cuddles-up-too-021211.php">Keep reading...</a></p>