Month: January 2015

Moving from Web-Based Collaboration To The Mobile Arena
Moving from Web-Based Collaboration To The Mobile Arena
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Everyone’s going mobile. The target seems to be clear: All companies want their employees to be able to work while they are on the road, at the airport, between meetings etc. (I personally miss the days when going for a coffee was just to drink coffee…no WiFi, no work)

MVP TakeOver - Patrick Guimonet
MVP TakeOver – Patrick Guimonet
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I am Enterprise Solutions Architect and passionate about designing, selling and implementing IT solutions for customers of all size. I have been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years now. I had the chance to work as employee for great companies and organizations like: CERN (in Geneva, at the time URL, HTTP and HTML were conceived), Oracle, Sequent, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Cap Gemini (all five being Paris based).

SharePoint Corporate Directory in Under 10 Minutes
SharePoint Corporate Directory in Under 10 Minutes
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During all the SharePoint projects that I’ve been involved with the thing we always have lengthy discussions on is quick wins. A quick win is something that takes very little time, low cost and an impact that spans throughout the company. Sounds simple enough doesn’t it? Well its not because each company has their own opinion on what that might be and an understanding if the users will actually use it. Even though I would love to talk about all the ideas I have come up with in this blog we are just going to focus on the one that has seemed to have the biggest impact on the “Corporate Directory”.

Building a Digital Workplace with Office 365
Building a Digital Workplace with Office 365
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Our workday world has changed dramatically with the advent of always on internet access and the explosion of mobile devices in the enterprise. Employees are no longer tethered to their desks in office buildings but are in the field working face to face with clients and customers. Microsoft’s vision for the future of work is made up of the Cloud OS (Office 365) and the mobile devices you use every day to get work done. The intersection between the two is the digital workplace.

More Customization on SharePoint, Good or Bad?
More Customization on SharePoint, Good or Bad?
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SharePoint is one of the products that vary quite a lot compared to other products that developers has to engage with. If we look at what SharePoint had in 2007 the improvements in 2010, it has built up lot of potentials to it. Comparing 2010 with 2013 version is another big ask. So will these customization we make will affect a migration and performance after migration? The answer is YES. But this does not mean we should not customize SharePoint.