Intranet projects can take a long time to complete. According to the Nielsen Norman Group, the average intranet project lasts approximately 1.4 years, or 17.3 months. Although this data is based on a small number of projects, it is a figure which has remained steady for the past few years. Anecdotally, that figure seems about… READ MORE
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a timeline of your SharePoint Adoption Enhancing Activities to follow when rolling out a new SharePoint-based intranet (or relaunching your existing one)? I mean, let’s get real and talk about concrete things instead of vague concepts. Let’s do this! This article outlines my point of view (from my own experience) on which… READ MORE
In this article Toni Frankola, CEO, Microsoft MVP and SPDocKit Product Owner, outlines SharePoint permissions governance best practices. We’ve included all the things you should keep an eye on before going into SharePoint permission management. These best practices we refer to both SharePoint on-prem and SharePoint Online. Let’s begin with why it’s important to develop a… READ MORE
Background: Transform Digital Workspaces and Boosts Employee Productivity Tyson is one of the world’s largest food companies, supplying chicken, beef, pork and prepared products to customers located around the world. With over 114,000 employees working in hundreds of offices and facilities, their intranet serves as a critical communications channel. Business Challenge A series of acquisitions had… READ MORE
If you have read my previous post “Who’s next? Bill Gates?”, then, you may think I am going crazy. Talking about Bill Gates and saying Excel is dead is absurd! Surely, Excel is, and remains, one of the key Microsoft products. The title is very similar to the BI is dead one, provocative… But in a sense… READ MORE
Great intranets thrive on high quality content. Employees need to be able to access up to date, relevant and well-written content which helps them carry out their role and stay informed. Without valuable content your intranet solution will not be a success. Meet the content manager community Most modern intranets work on a decentralised publishing… READ MORE
Site classification is a must-have when we talk about Governance, Compliance and also topics around GDPR. Beside 3rd party solutions focusing on site and content classification we have also some out of the box options and developer opportunities in Office 365 and SharePoint on-prem. Depending on if we are talking about classic SharePoint Site Collections or… READ MORE
18 amazing new sessions have been added to the ESPC17 programme. These sessions will be delivered by the Product Teams, Microsoft Corporate from Redmond, USA. Hear from the very best, on the very latest. Learn from the experts who are at the forefront of design and development. Get answers to all of your day to… READ MORE
One way applications boost the power of SharePoint and Office 365 is through the use of Application Portals. These Application Portals give users ways to engage effectively with our applications, thereby driving user adoption and accelerating usage of SharePoint and Office 365. Application Portals differ from Intranets, Team Sites, and Comm Sites in that they are… READ MORE
My good friend, Matthew McDermott wrote a great blog post a few weeks ago with the title “Think Search First – Planning Your Next SharePoint Project”. In his great storytelling style, he writes: “Users do not use search-based solutions because they have never had that option. Since folders and file names are the only way most… READ MORE
