In your experience how does SharePoint as a back-end Document Management Solution (archiving included) stands compared to other proprietary document management systems. Is it any comparison analysis out there?
One of Sharepoints main features is document management. In my opinion, its Document Management features and its lackings:
Great metadata, integration only with msft tools, no built in functionality to capture paper docs, strong indexing, uses SQLServer as storage platform but lacks on serious document archiving, not great search and filtering, item level security, decent work flow capabilities, strong on versioning and collaboration.