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Credit: Thinkstock Microsoftrsqu stanley cup o SharePoint has conquered the enterprise intranet, but its complexity requires expensive third-party help, according to reviews by enterprise users in the IT Central Station community. Meanwhile, user reviews of Atlassianrsquo Confluence say that Confluence is great for posting technical documents, but not great for searching that content.IT Cent stanley spain ral Station has produced a 46-page report that compares the two rival content-management systems, based on commentary written by enterprise users of the products. The report includes side-by-side comparisons of pricing, and numerous user comments about the strengths, weaknesses and business benefits of each product.Download the report, User Reviews of SharePoint and Atlassian Confluence, to read detailed user reviews about these rival systems. download Microsoft SharePoint vs. Atlassian ConfluenceIT Central Station Related contentnewsMicrosoft lets shopping bots loose in a sandboxBy Paul BarkerNov 7, 20258 minsArtificial IntelligenceE-commerce SoftwareMicrosoftnewsGeminis research tool can now access emails and documentsBy Mikael MarkanderNov 6, 20251 minCollaboration SoftwareGenerative AIGooglefeatureBuyers guide: How to choose the right business laptopsBy Brian NadelNov 5, 202540 minsAppleBusinessSmall and Medium BusinessfeatureWindows 11 Insider Previews: Whats in the latest build By Preston Grall hydrojug traveler aNov 5, 202590 minsBusinessSmall and Medium BusinessWin Ljwj Vendor Simplifies Document Exchanges
Point-of-sale-flavored Windows on the march for market share Microsoft Corp. on Thursdayannounced an update to its two-year-old version of Windows intended for use on store cash registers and other point-of-sale POS devices. Windows Embedded for Point of Service WEPOS 1.1 Updatehas three main new features, according to David Feldman, senior product manager for Windows Embedded: support for Serial ATA hard drives; support for 33 languages, including Chinese, Russian and Thai; and, via POS for .Net 1.11, plug-and-play support for new types of devices commonly plugged into POS terminals. Such devices include biometric readers, electronic journals, bill acceptors and image scanners.Firstreleasedin May 2005, WEPOS is based on Microsoftrsquo Windows XP Embedded operating system, one of the plethora of Windows operating systems used by retailers. Even before WEPOSrsquo; launch, Microsoft dominated the retail POS market. Last year, a Microsoft operating system ran on 75% of the 6.2 million POS devices in North polene bag America, according to Franklin, Tenn.-basedIHL Consulting Group Inc. WEPOS, the newest Microsoft offering, has increased its share over t polene he past two years, doubling its hold on the North American retail POS market to 7%.WEPOSrsquo greatest success is in fast-growing retail segments, as well as those that tend to replace their POS terminals more often. For instance, WEPOS shipped on 13% of PC-enabled gas pumps sold last year.Among category-killer stores stanley mug such as Best B |
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