Using SharePoint, organizations should to be leveraging every asset they have as effectively as possible. This means investing time and resources to make sure users are fully utilizing the functions made available to them; especially the capabilities that can help them more productive and meets their objectives.
Software developer Exformatics have abolished internal emails. Inefficiency and lack of knowledge sharing put more emphasis on social media, mobile applications and digital workflows and tasks. New Year’s resolutions normally concerns exercise, weight loss and a farewell to bad habits.
As more organizations explore the potential of using Microsoft SharePoint for Document Management and Email Management a question that arises frequently is “What is the best Information Architecture for a SharePoint DM store?” In other words, what is the best way to arrange the various SharePoint 2010 ‘building blocks’ – Site Collections, Sites, Document Libraries, Document Sets, Folders and metadata columns – to come up a design that is optimal in terms of volume handling, functionality and ease of use? That last objective – ease of use – is critical because if the users do not find it easy to interact with the document store they will likely store their documents in file shares or local drives and their emails in Outlook folders and the SharePoint DM project will not be successful.
One customer was faxing documents back and forth rather than waiting for slow Microsoft SharePoint® downloads. It’s not SharePoint’s fault; it’s often other factors outside SharePoint involving the network. Fact is, people will drop any technology like a hot brick when the WAN slows the end-user experience.
More than 500,000 enterprise clients in 25 nations use Ontolica. What is the reason for its escalating global reputation? Online search effectively unlocks the business processes a client wants driven from their website. Ontolica’s ability to generate search optimized SharePoint workflows allowed Ironwood Pharmaceuticals to manage nuanced search experiences, while delivering direct marketing/segmentation data. The seamless content aggregation was both flexible and automated. Ironwood was able to streamline its promotional presentation using Ontolica with Nintex and HighPoint Solutions.
Today, our friend and MVP Alberto Diaz Marti released the first version of the application to read the electronic magazine of SharePoint CompartiMOSS in Windows 8. For us that we have made the magazine since 2008 is a pleasure to have this application and I want to say thank you Alberto for this amazing job, it’s great. To download the application following this link.
Alright, you might also call it “adding to rumors around sharepoint 2013 search and FAST features” because until RTM comes out, we might see few things cut or added .
If you’re currently working with SharePoint 2010 you know that it’s not a power user task to build content roll ups spanning across multiple sites. With SharePoint 2010 you can do that with one web part and without requiring a knowledge of a query language, at least in basic scenarios.
Innovation on the brain, I guess. After posting some thoughts on innovation 2 days ago, I am flipping through Paul Culmsee and Kailash Awati’s book The Heretics Guide to Best Practices and come across a story that I have encountered a few times before in my own corporate experience and as a consultant: an organization decides to “institutionalize” innovation by creating a committee “to encourage and manage new creative efforts. The committee was instituted with great fanfare, even greater expectations, and chaired by a manager with a suitably pompous title.”
Have you heard the news yet? There’s a new certification in town. With the new SharePoint 2013 there are new exams. These pages are pretty rough right now. You’ll notice the links on the MCSE SharePoint page the links are pointing to Exchange exams. I’m happy to see the MCSE come back even in the new form. It is interesting to see Windows 2012 MCSA encouraged as where to start. I hope to see these exams at SPC12. I am noticing Feb 2013 as an availability date. I’m sure this is in flux, but great to see this information coming out. I’m sure we’ll see more on the dev side soon as well.
