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When departments have been abandoned from an IT budget, the most common replacement I've seen has been SharePoint.

Not a bad replacement.

A better replacement in my opinion is Dynamics CRM (biased as I'm a Dynamics CRM consultant) ... speed of development is quick, runs everywhere with just one set of code (web, desktop app, mobile app, mobile web) and if you need to do something outside the standard functionality it's really quick and easy to write a C# plugin or custom workflow activity to do what you want.

Fascinating. I've not before this comment seen someone mention Dynamics CRM as "quick development" (and at one point that included knowing actual Dynamics CRM devs, but that was back before .NET integration and the worst excesses of X++ were still plentiful).

From my perspective across a number of jobs and project clients, SharePoint installations are rare (and often out-of-date and equally often loathed) and I've never actually seen a Dynamics CRM install in the wild. (I know they exist, I've just never seen one/worked with one.)

I admire your use of Dynamics CRM as a hammer for all nail-like objects as a means of job security.

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