With one week left before most people go on leave, chances are most people are working all that hard anymore. We’re all too tired and ready for a break. If you don’t really feel like doing your day job, why not do some annual maintenance on your team sites?
The SharePoint Conference is always a great event, but when it matches the launch of a new SharePoint version it rises to a whole other level. According to Jeff Spataro, this is the largest SharePoint Conference to date with:
10,000 attendees
From 85 countries
Over 200 sponsors and exhibitors
Over 300 breakout sessions
45 hands-on labs
Harmon.ie recognized several recipients of the 2012 Top 25 SharePoint Influencers list at a brief award ceremony during the SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas, NV. Presented by Mark Fidelman and Harmon.ie CEO Yaacov Cohen.
If you’re a fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, then you’re familiar with the quote, “one ring to rule them all.” But how does this phrase apply to SharePoint and social?
SharePoint 2013 brings a full bag of social goodies, such as micro blogs, activity feeds, community sites, following, likes and reputations. These are features that users have been craving and are accustomed to within various social and collaboration tools external to SharePoint.
If you’re a fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, then you’re familiar with the quote, “one ring to rule them all.” But how does this phrase apply to SharePoint and social?
As the use of smartphones is growing fast, business users’ demand for mobile SharePoint collaboration is booming. But traditional approaches are complex and costly to implement, and they don’t always meet the expectations of users.
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.
Harmon.ie has made it even easier to access SharePoint by making a mobile app that is available for tablets and smartphones. It has led to making this video to spread the word, and I was hoping that you wouldn’t mind mentioning it on your site.
While the case for taking an enterprise view of data capture into Microsoft SharePoint is persuasive, actually implementing the strategy is more challenging. In the US and Europe alone more than 20 million tons of office paper is produced and consumed every year. The use of paper remains pervasive across many industries, resulting in high administrative overhead costs and too many points of failure as documents are routed throughout the organization. The cost to file a single paper document is $20, while searching for a misfiled document costs $120 and reproducing a lost document is estimated to cost $220. The total cost of printing, copying, storing and mailing is 10 times the original purchase price of the paper itself. Despite these costs, a recent survey by AIIM showed less than 30% of SharePoint users are managing scanned documents in SharePoint.1 Those that are scanning documents to SharePoint are doing simple ad-hoc scanning, capturing single documents for storage in SharePoint. They are not performing scan to process, capturing documents at the point of origination, and entering them directly into the business process with minimal manual intervention.
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.
