As software solution and cloud service provider, projects are our daily business. Ranging from hours to weeks, months, or even years, projects over such a time span can be challenging to manage. Different contact persons, various team members involved, and an abundance of communication channels do not really make it easier to keep track of… 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
It is not a point to deny that in many of the companies that are using SharePoint, are using it for the purpose of document management. And why not – SharePoint is built (also) for that. It has a brilliant logic for document libraries under every site, whether it is on intranet or team sites. Noora Hakkarainen discusses SharePoint Documents and asks do you know the value of information in your SharePoint?
I always use this in my conference sessions, as 1) makes the understanding of Search much easier, 2) takes the attendees attention, 3) describes the Search use cases very well.
Finding the right information has long been a major challenge for companies. Overall, an information Worker spends an average of 26 per cent a day looking for information. That implies a lot of potential in optimizing the process of search. Search technologies aim to solve this problem. Unfortunately search results are mostly below expectations. The reason is not the search technology per se, but the quality of data to be searched. The following topics cause considerable problems:
Knowledge is not explicitly available. Important information is not explicitly captured but available in various documents.
