Microsoft SharePoint has surfaced as the first step to the collection of stored enterprise information that enterprises across the globe depend upon to carry out business on a daily basis; however there are certain modules in which its competencies need to be amplified by further applications - predominantly for metadata management and regular classification - based on a new research.

SharePoint is a pleasant alternative for developing a balancing set of internet as well as intranet sites, collaboration tools in addition to applications operating on a distinct platform. Building a publishing website based on it is suitable when your company already utilizes the system (or plan to utilize it in upcoming days) - e.g. for hosting an intranet site or document management purposes - the users and IT support team are by now known with it, and there are impending savings on infrastructure, licensing and other costs of initiating a new system. Nevertheless, developing a thriving SharePoint website needs some kind of planning and right implementation.

Here are the following use cases where SharePoint can be used as a CMS

Already using SharePoint - if the current SharePoint environment is utilized for a public website hosting, you may think about utilizing SharePoint as CMS. In this case you have previously paid for licenses and it trims down the cost of executing the site (also it makes maintenance and support, trainings and user acceptance easier).
For content oriented sites - SharePoint is efficient when creating content for websites (i.e. determining sites' structure, developing and organizing pages' content, supporting numerous languages and Search Engine Optimization). If you want any sophisticated site functionality, like ecommerce, discussion forums, blogs, social communities you may think about using a different system. Other content management systems present in the market provide superior support from 3rd party tools to bring about such functionalities to the website. Apparently, all these tasks can be achieved with SharePoint also; however the efforts needed would be higher whereas the amount of providers competent of doing this job would be lesser.
Extranet functionality - if you plan to put in an extranet functionality to your site and let users to log in and team up in specific areas, SharePoint might be a fine option for you. Here your users can obtain all the benefits of SharePoint document management capabilities, communication tools and additional features of the SharePoint platform.
Custom Solution - SharePoint gives a broad range of options for creating and implementing custom solutions. With development knowledge similar to a standard.Net development, you can utilize SharePoint to create your solution on top of it.