Sr No.	Features	Interwoven	SharePoint	DNN	Alfresco	Drupal
1	Adoption	user adoption is miserable	can be easily adopted	easily adopted	better than interwoven	easily adopted
2	Shell Access	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
3	Setup and Deployment	Very difficult	Easy	Easy	difficult	difficult
4	Documentation	very poorly documented	Good documentation	average rated documentation	average rated documentation	Good documentation
5	Implementation	Poor Implementation	Good Implementation	Good Implementation	Good Implementation	Good Implementation
6	Product Development	Very Slow	Rapid	Medium	Medium	Medium
7	Cost Estimation	works on per user fees	license based server	license based server	license based server	license based server
8	Blog	No	In-Built	Extra Cost(Add-on)	In-Built	In-Built
9	Chat	No	Free Add-on	No	Free Add-on	Free Add-on
10	Classifieds	No	Free Add-on	In-Built	In-Built	Free Add-on
11	Contact Management	No	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	Free Add-on
12	Reports	Extra Cost(Add-on)	Free Add-on	Free Add-on	Free Add-on	No
13	Discussion/Forum	Free Add-on	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built
14	Events Calendar	Free Add-on	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	Free Add-on
15	Graphs and Charts	Free Add-on	In-Built	Free Add-on	No	No
16	Mail form	Free Add-on	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	Free Add-on
17	Newsletter	Free Add On	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	Free Add-on
18	Photo Gallery	Free Add On	In-Built	Extra Cost(Add-on)	In-Built	Free Add-on
19	Project Tracking	No	In-Built	In-Built	No	Free Add-on
20	Site Map	Free Add On	In-Built	Free Add On	In-Built	Free Add-on
21	Surveys	No	In-Built	Free Add On	Extra Cost(Add-on)	Free Add-on
22	Time Tracking	No	In-Built	In-Built	No	Free Add-on
23	Stock Quotes	No	Extra Cost(Add-on)	Extra Cost(Add-on)	No	Free Add-on
24	Subscriptions	No	In-Built	No	In-Built	Free Add-on
25	Presentation for publishing	Not good for front end	good presentation	good presentation	good presentation	good presentation
26	Announcements	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	No
27	Dashboard	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	Free Add-on
28	Link Management	In-Built	In-Built	Free Add-on	In-Built	Free Add-on
29	Document Management	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	Limited
30	Versioning	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built	In-Built

Elections can be boosted using SharePoint
S.No.	Feature	SharePoint Feature
1.	Finalizing Election Dates	1.1 KPI/Dashboards can be associated with every state to know the status of the state as of now. 1.2 BCS/BDC can be used to integrate with state existing system to fetch the relevant data. 1.3 Announcement to announce the dates. 1.4 SMS/Emails Integration to send the details to Voters and state Bodies
2.	Election Nomination Filing	2.1 Nominees can file their nomination online even using their mobile. 2.2 Notifications: As the nomination is filed an alert is send to various stakeholders 2.3 Nomination Checking: As the system is integrated with other key system till state level, the qualifications defined by election commissioner can be validated at the same time.
3.	Election Publicity	3.1 Internet Portal in Multilingual languages can be used to display the work done by government in past days, Manifestos and Vision documents. 3.2 Nominees can reach to voters by bulk email or sms or by providing them the mobile view of the work done 3.3 Political parties can inform the voters of region about the meetings or Rath Yatras to be held in the constituency 3.4 Parties can even conduct Pre poll surveys by having Rating on the work performed
4.	Election Counting	4.1 Electronic Vote Counting machines can transmit the data instantly to election commission portal , hence no manual intervention in final counting increasing the performance and creating transparent system
5.	Election Result Declaration	5.1 The results as come can instantly can be send via/emails and mobile to the voters of the constitution and other important stakeholders 5.2 Political parties can perform trend analysis to reason of their big win or defeat without effort, as the details will be displayed in graphs/charts.
General	1.Various documents created during the processes can be stored in document libraries[versioning, co-authoring, check-in-checkout] 2.Announcements:announcements during the life cycle of election processes can be used to inform various stake holders 3.Mobile Views/Email Integration: To send the notification in form of email or mobile text 4.KPI/Dashboard: To perform trend analysis and key indicators 5.BCS/BDC: To integrate with existing state systems to fetch and integrate the data as record
Advantages	1.Operational Efficiency 2.Operational Transparency 3.Cost/Time Saving 4.Scalable System 5.Reliable system
Note:	These are broad level features, can be detailed out more and Microsoft SharePoint enables to achieve this easily. In case of any queries feel free to revert at vguptadelhi@gmail.com

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