There is nothing more frustrating than rolling out a shiny new SharePoint farm to notice that 6 months later not a lot is going on. This isn’t some sort of conspiracy theory but it’s the simple fact that we have many ingrained business processes around sharing documents and it is very very hard to change those, even with a clearly more superior system being availalbe.
Workflow is comprised of the progression of the processes a work fuction undergoes from its start to finish. This includes processing in administration commercial exchange, industrial use, IT, marketing strategy, product specification, sales proposals or related categories of enterprise activity.
Effective compliance is the ability to not only have a governance strategy in place, but also be able to manage risk by identifying issues and potential violations, and have a process in place for resolution and fine tuning. This step-by-step illustrated guide lays out each step; from defining your compliance strategy, to implementing HiSoftware’s suite of solutions for identifying and managing compliance and security issues in SharePoint to help protect your organization.
Microsoft is heavy in its campaign since publically making available the Microsoft Office 2013 Preview for client and server operating systems in July. I spend a great deal of time discussing with our customers all things business productivity. One of the biggest questions that keeps coming up is whether they should upgrade to SharePoint 2013 sooner rather than later.
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.
