What are the pros and cons of hosted SharePoint?
For every concern voiced about hosted SharePoint, such as security, someone else can offer a counter argument, from cost savings to easier management to business continuity in the face of outages or disasters. Ultimately it depends, as most decisions in IT do, on the needs and particular situation of an organization. As food for thought, here are what some industry experts told us: Pros: “I actually like it because it forces you to build very clean applications by the rules,” says Dave Chennault, an MCTS in SharePoint and BPA. (See his article in the November issue of SharePointPro Connections magazine, coming out the last week in October, “POV: IT Pro,” about hosted SharePoint considerations.) BPOS “is supportable by anyone who knows SharePoint and frees you from custom code and being shackled to the developer who wrote the custom code.” “A lot of organizations are still fairly early in deployment of SharePoint so you can start with that dynamic of ‘can someone else do this for me?’ I
