SharePoint Plastic
SharePoint isn't a credit card, but it does mold very well. Not sure if it's play dough or plastic. Woody thought it was an elephant, but an elephant is very well defined even if it has a trunk on one end and a bristly tail on the other. The more I work on SharePoint the more I think it is what you need it to be. There are obviously some things that are more of a stretch (what not to store), but occasionally I see people push even those things.
I was in a meeting today where we were trying to limit SharePoint docs to a number of high level scenarios to help focus the documentation. It's quite the list.
SharePoint is a business productivity platform. Ok, so Intranet Portal, Search, Collab, BI, ECM, DM, Extranet, WCM, BPM, Forms, and so on simply describe the features and not the business scenarios. If you can save 200 million dollars by using SharePoint it's that it is plastic and can fit to your needs. You simply need to understand what needs to be done (basically what the mold looks like) so that you can warm up the plastic to match.
Trying to come up with a list of usage scenarios would be some amazing pivot on the hundreds of features. Imagine alone what scenarios you could come up with just for an events list with a calendar view for example or the flexibility of the BDC.
