Year: 2011

How easy can scanning to SharePoint be?
How easy can scanning to SharePoint be?
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In our last week’s article we introduced UDOCX as the only cloud-based service that integrates physical scanned documents with SharePoint and Exchange.

The UDOCX “Scan-to-SharePoint version” is not only about storing documents into SharePoint and integrating them into internal or external business workflows (which is crucial for business productivity). It’s also about being very user-friendly for both users and administrators. UDOCX is the easiest and most convenient way for employees to scan documents into SharePoint!

The Business Value of GSX Solutions for Organizations
The Business Value of GSX Solutions for Organizations
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SharePoint has taken the world by storm-it’s the defining collaboration and information management product on the market today. Numerous risks and issues that undermine the effective use of SharePoint for collaboration, however, have matched its rapid ascendency. These include poor integration into the enterprise information management approach, a lack of usage by business users, and team site sprawl, among others.
A new wave of collaboration software, with Microsoft SharePoint leading the charge, is being used to create better ways for people to work together in the organizations. The vision is to replace ineffective forms of communication and collaboration with more effective approaches-for example, the transition from email messages with attachments to team sites with document libraries, or the replacement of a static printed manual with a community wiki and discussion area. As these transitions begin to take hold across our organizations, and groups adopt the new ways of working together, SharePoint increasingly becomes a mission critical platform.

New corporate websites of Elopak re-use SharePoint assets on the internet
New corporate websites of Elopak re-use SharePoint assets on the internet
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When Elopak, the globally acting packaging specialist headquartered in Oslo, Norway decided to re-launch her corporate website a few key requirements were set right from the start:

– The corporate website should be maintainable by non-technical staff with a minimum of training,

– The solution should be scalable and flexible enough to adapt to further extensions in the near future, e.g. to offer localized contents for different countries,

– Contents from the intranet (which is powered by Microsoft SharePoint) should be re-used on the internet with least possible effort,

– The initial project should fit into the sporty timeline.

More than 10-years of fruitful co-operation between the German subsidiary of Elopak and the Mannheim based JANUS die Werbemanufaktur agency made it quite a logical step, to turn to JANUS and ask them for advice.

SharePoint Tip #26: Comments in Content Type Definition
SharePoint Tip #26: Comments in Content Type Definition
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There is an issue with SharePoint 2010’s CAML parser that causes SharePoint to ignore fields in a Content Type definition. When defining a Content Type feature element, avoid placing comments inside the element as that will cause SharePoint to create the Content Type disregarding all the fields, even though the XML is well formed

SharePoint users want to integrate their manually scanned documents in SharePoint
SharePoint users want to integrate their manually scanned documents in SharePoint
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Every month organizations around the world generate thousands of physical documents that need to be manually scanned using multifunctional devices or dedicated scanners. Those documents are stored in SharePoint, and integrated into internal or external business workflows. Documents that are transmitted to external parties (by fax, mail or email) often need to be copied, scanned and then stored into a SharePoint archive (for legal or internal policy reasons). All of those scanned documents need to be easily accessible and retrievable based on key attributes (tags).

Microsoft® Technology Center Reduced SharePoint 2010 Migration
Microsoft® Technology Center Reduced SharePoint 2010 Migration
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The MTC organization has long utilized SharePoint to provide a central home for its documentation and partner-related information, as well as a portal for team-wide collaboration. After the release of SharePoint 2010, the MTC sought to migrate its content and data from its SharePoint 2007 environment to a Microsoft IT (MSIT) hosted instance of SharePoint 2010. Quickly, the migration team at the MTC knew that they could not migrate the data stored in SharePoint 2007 directly to this environment due to restrictions on custom applications in the hosted service.

The business value of GSX Solutions for organizations with Microsoft SharePoint
The business value of GSX Solutions for organizations with Microsoft SharePoint
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SharePoint has taken the world by storm—it’s the defining collaboration and information management product on the market today. Numerous risks and issues that undermine the effective use of SharePoint for collaboration, however, have matched its rapid ascendency. These include poor integration into the enterprise information management approach, a lack of usage by business users, and team site sprawl, among others.
A new wave of collaboration software, with Microsoft SharePoint leading the charge, is being used to create better ways for people to work together in the organizations. The vision is to replace ineffective forms of communication and collaboration with more effective approaches—for example, the transition from email messages with attachments to team sites with document libraries, or the replacement of a static printed manual with a community wiki and discussion area. As these transitions begin to take hold across our organizations, and groups adopt the new ways of working together, SharePoint increasingly becomes a mission critical platform.

Operational Steps to Boosting your SharePoint Search Maturity Level
Operational Steps to Boosting your SharePoint Search Maturity Level
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Getting the best out of a SharePoint deployment requires meticulous planning, as well as a series of milestones and guidelines against which the success of the SharePoint project can be measured. Sadalit Van Buren’s SharePoint Maturity Model version 2.0 ( https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/The-SharePoint-Maturity-Model,-Version-2-0.aspx )is a good place to look for some answers.

In this model Van Buren defines Search Competancy as follows:

Analysing your investments?
Analysing your investments?
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Modern Day challenges facing modern day CMO’s and Digital Marketers are becoming ever more complex. As the digital space becomes ever more fragmented since the introduction of Mobile Web, Mobile Applications, Tablets, Social Media and IPTV, the modern day Digital Marketing department is under increasing pressure with little resource to effectively manage their brands across the ‘splintered’ internet (or ‘splinternet’ as documented by Forrester Research in 2010 : www.forrester.com/go?docid=56303). In addition to these multiple marketing channels, they are also faced with the management and creation of content, analysis and optimisation in these channels to ultimately acquire new customers and nurture existing customers. How does the modern day marketing team manage? Employ additional resource or outsource to digital agencies? These may be the answers however the first question any business should ask is “am I using my current technologies to my best advantage?”

Microsoft has lead the way for nearly a decade with its fastest growing product ever, Microsoft SharePoint. Nearly every enterprise organisation and a growing number of SME organisations are already using SharePoint within their organisations for Intranets, Extranets and Collaboration however, since the introduction of SharePoint 2010 and more specifically Microsoft SharePoint 2010 For Internet Sites (FIS), these organisations are missing out on a potentially massive cost saving and time saving element by not deploying SharePoint for their internet facing sites.