Our current challenge is to decide which systems or parts of systems are going to be hand-crafted fat-client desktop applications (the stuff Microsoft has labeled ‘legacy’), which are going to end up in SharePoint and which will land on a phone or tablet. This is heady stuff, but like my bowl, I think our results will be defined by balancing our goals between form and function.
Since SharePoint 2010 was released, there has been a tremendous amount of debate regarding the value and application Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) with SharePoint. However, I witnessed firsthand a staggering amount of misconceptions about RBS during last year’s SharePoint Conference in Anaheim. This wave of incorrect and factually untrue information worried and disturbed me. How can there be a proper debate about RBS when many are unaware about what RBS actually means and how it can be implemented within SharePoint 2010?
The European SharePoint Community are delighted to bring you part 2 in a three part series of “SharePoint Governance & the Pillars of Wisdom” by Ian McNeice.
Service Delivery in SharePoint is simply the methods used to ensure that the clients SharePoint vision and goals align with the users, and includes focusing how those responsible for managing the platform (the technical teams) fit and provide that service through guiding principles. These, if followed will ensure that your SharePoint environment can be managed in a structured way.
Here are some of the major elements of a successful SharePoint road map. Things don’t go smoothly when any of these elements are lacking.
Having worked with SharePoint technologies for almost six years now on both the IT and business side of things, I’ve witnessed how hard it is to implement SharePoint successfully, especially because IT and business users can’t see eye to eye when it comes to how and when to implement it.
It is one thing to set up and deploy SharePoint in your organization. That is the easy part. The hard part is making your organization adapt to this technology and improve your business processes using the platform.
Effectively managing enterprise content is a growing challenge for organizations today. Cloud-based computing
represents a powerful new option, offering increased flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost for IT infrastructure, data
storage, and applications. However, for a variety of business and technical reasons, most organizations will take a
phased approach to adopting cloud-based services, which will require them to continue to maintain their on-premises
SharePoint environments during the transition.
Today the usage of social networks is ingrained into our day to day live. Platforms such as Facebook will soon reach one billion registered users, more than 50 million professionals engage with each other on LinkedIn, the Google +1 button is starting to influence the purchasing decisions that we make based on our friends’ recommendations and Twitter motivates people to post an average of 50 million tweets a day.
The adoption of SharePoint as a business critical technology continues to drive productivity and process improvement across organizations of various sizes and types. Many organizations now regard SharePoint as mission-critical to them as Microsoft Exchange. With the release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 this rate of adoption is expected to accelerate.
SharePoint underpins a wide range of business critical processes including areas such as collaboration portals, web content management and application development. It is used across every business sector and has become a key component of many organization’s business and IT infrastructure.
The European SharePoint Community are delighted to bring you part 1 ” of “SharePoint Governance & the Pillars of Wisdom” by Ian McNeice.
Over the years the subject of SharePoint governance has taken on a distinctly technical flavour and confusion reigns. Ian have taken the opportunity of using his business-focused expertise to redressing the balance by returning the subject of SharePoint Governance to its origins – the business. In this exclusive business governance bible, Ian demonstrate how the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a philosophy that underpins all major belief systems, also underpins the corporate universe and how it applies directly to SharePoint. Using this practical guide, any organisation can prepare a complete governance strategy for SharePoint in the cloud and on premise, ensuring full alignment with their business program.
