Month: July 2015

How to Integrate ECM with ERP in Your Workplace
How to Integrate ECM with ERP in Your Workplace
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It’s always been a daunting, long, and pain-staking process finding the right solution(s), integrating, implementing, and then training the team to better your workflows or create new ones, if you haven’t already done so, within your organization. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an elementary and fundamental way to get the ball rolling. In this article, we explain how to successfully integrate and implement your enterprise content management (ECM) with enterprise resource planning (ERP), using Accounts Payable (AP) as an example.

Installing Workflow Manager Offline
Installing Workflow Manager Offline
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In several cases your environment is secured and not accessing the internet and you want to install the workflow manager so in the following steps I am going to explain how to do that so you can install Workflow Manager offline to server(s) not connected to the internet..

Office Graph: The Brain of Office 365
Office Graph: The Brain of Office 365
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This time was no different and I asked how many of the attendees knew what is the Office Graph and Office Delve. I was surprised that only a few hands were lifted, and that so many of the attendees had no clue of what I was about to present. I decided to start at the beginning and I think it went great. So I figured it would be a good idea to write an article about Office Graph, for beginners.

Two Easy Ways to Calculate Working Days Inside a SharePoint Workflow
Two Easy Ways to Calculate Working Days Inside a SharePoint Workflow
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I’m in the midst of two different major workflows for clients right now, one of them being an HR New Hire Onboarding request and approval process. One small but critical requirement of the process was that each level of approval needed a two business day wait period. I’ve seen different suggested solutions for this on the internet, but nothing super easy and in the context of a workflow, or would fully work in my situation. So I thought I’d share a couple of quick and easy ways to accomplish this.

Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Online
Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Online
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Despite these limitations, you can use BCS to connect to different data sources like Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services, Open Data Protocol (O-Data) sources and Microsoft SQL Azure databases. As long as the data is provided by one of the supported data sources, SharePoint Online will be able to obtain the needed information. The process of creating an external content type follows the same method of how it is done on-premises. Follow the steps below to properly implement BCS in your SharePoint Online environment.