Month: July 2012

Top Three Benefits of SharePoint Road-Mapping
Top Three Benefits of SharePoint Road-Mapping
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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.

Whitepaper - A Governance Guide for Hybrid SharePoint Migrations
Whitepaper – A Governance Guide for Hybrid SharePoint Migrations
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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.

Whitepaper - Social Information Management
Whitepaper – Social Information Management
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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.

Whitepaper - How to Implement Effective SharePoint Governance Plan
Whitepaper – How to Implement Effective SharePoint Governance Plan
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Are you thinking about deploying SharePoint in your organization? You won’t have to do much research before
you come across the big “G” word – governance. Just the word itself is somewhat imposing and definitions for
it will vary. In fact, if you ask three different experts what governance means, you’re likely to get four different
answers. And while I have yet to find that one, perfect definition of governance, I can accept this one from
Microsoft: “Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that guides, directs, and
controls how an organization’s business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals.” In short,
it is a “how to” guide.

Whitepaper: Document Review And SharePoint Document Collaboration
Whitepaper: Document Review And SharePoint Document Collaboration
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This whitepaper records the results of a survey of Microsoft SharePoint customers, conducted in October, 2011. This whitepaper documents the results of this survey both from a business user1 and IT professional standpoint, from which we were able to draw conclusions. Far removed from the marketing hype and assumptions that usually provide the backdrop to software purchasing decisions, this whitepaper provides concrete evidence to help influence future purchasing decisions and ensure a realistic view of Microsoft’s collaborative capabilities.

Whitepaper: Eliminating End User and Application Downtime
Whitepaper: Eliminating End User and Application Downtime
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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.

SharePoint Governance & the Pillars of Wisdom - Part 1
SharePoint Governance & the Pillars of Wisdom – Part 1
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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.

The Cost of Automation
The Cost of Automation
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The SharePoint platform has gone through some major changes over the past decade, from a loosely tied collection of disparate tools (Tahoe), to a limited product implementation (SPS2001, 2003, and 2007), to a dynamic and powerful platform (2010) — and even now it is evolving in response to the changing world of BYOD (bring your own device) and cloud-based infrastructures and services.

A SharePoint Tip: The Other ROI is Risk of Inadequacy
A SharePoint Tip: The Other ROI is Risk of Inadequacy
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One of the most common questions I’m asked is how to “sell” an organization on an architecture, solution, or other decision that is mandated by the business need as expressed by the business customer, but not supported by real-world constraints of money, time, and people.

Meet Our Programme Team!
Meet Our Programme Team!
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We are delighted to introduce our fantastic Programme Team for 2013! This experienced team has been assigned the task of putting together an exceptional conference agenda. The strength of this conference is the balance of sessions presented by both Microsoft and independent industry experts. The conference will focus on the latest in SharePoint-related technologies, reviewing and analysing the latest SharePoint content. The Programme Team are independent from the conference organisers, thus ensuring integrity and impartiality in the selection of the conference programme.

Registration opens on July 10th with a super early booking discount!