Most products that store content are designed to meet the requirements of a particular discipline; collaboration, document management or record management. The challenge with designing a SharePoint solution is that you might need to meet the requirements of more than one discipline.

This is a slide from the Tech Ready session on Information Architecture I was going to present in February (that session is now the victim of the current economic situation which means I won't be able to attend :-(

The idea for this originally came from a table I saw comparing document and record management requirements that was published back in the 90's but do you think I can find it again?

Because this was a PPT I kept the number of characteristics down to 5 but there are plenty more. Feel free to share your thoughts about this with a comment.