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n o n ~ l i n e a r c r e a t i o n s OTTAWA: TORONTO: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 VISIT US AT: About NLC »Who We Are Founded in 1995 NLC is an e-business integrator that delivers online success to our clients More than 800 completed projects Offices in Toronto and Ottawa 60 + full-time specialists Privately held company, profitable & stable »What We Do – Seven Solutions Groups Enterprise Content management Enterprise Search Application Development and Integration Design and Multimedia Search Engine Marketing Marketing Strategic Services

n o n ~ l i n e a r c r e a t i o n s OTTAWA: TORONTO: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 VISIT US AT: Our Clients

n o n ~ l i n e a r c r e a t i o n s OTTAWA: TORONTO: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 VISIT US AT: The Good »Where MOSS fits: Intranet & Extranet »Granular control of rights and privileges at the item/object level »Meta-data driven view personalization »Strong and effective enterprise search »Lends itself to fast prototyping, agile development »Extensible through.net »Office 2007 integration

n o n ~ l i n e a r c r e a t i o n s OTTAWA: TORONTO: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 VISIT US AT: The Bad »Microsoft’s positioning of MOSS is confusing (it slices, it dices, it mows your lawn, it paints your house….) »UI flexibility is more theoretical than practical »Out-of-the-box workflow is linear/no exceptions »Lacks strong content migration tools (although 3 rd parties are rapidly stepping in) »Content publishing model confuses WCMS users (it’s document centric, not page centric) »Steep learning curve, particularly when combined with Vista/Office 2007

n o n ~ l i n e a r c r e a t i o n s OTTAWA: TORONTO: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 VISIT US AT: The Lessons »Focus on meta-data: it’s the key to personalization and search »Despite of MSFT messaging, this is a platform – it’s not, plug and play »MSFT provided templates can accelerate prototyping, but aren’t ready for prime-time »64-bit is fast and robust, but lacks third-party support »Environment and integration planning is critical to success »Iterative development doesn’t alleviate need to define what counts as success