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Axceler's Global Trek = Mission Accomplished by Carrie Page
Axceler’s Global Trek = Mission Accomplished by Carrie Page
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The Estrel Hotel and Convention Center was a great venue for the SharePoint Conference and our booth location was perfectly situated near a session room and the ever important coffee break station!

Another reason you couldn’t miss our booth was because we had the “brightest” booth in the hall. It was almost as if you were entering the Emerald City of Oz, as we lit up the show with green blinky pins, pens and cups!

So many highlights, so little time, so here are our top highlights from the week.

SharePoint in Berlin by Christian Buckley
SharePoint in Berlin by Christian Buckley
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After a couple days of sleep, I’m just getting back up to speed following a week on the road in Germany and Belgium. After a false start at SeaTac on the 15th with a cancelled flight due to mechanical issues (never a good sign), I was able to get on a flight mid-day Sunday, arriving in Berlin mid-day Monday (after a lovely 5-hour layover in Amsterdam). This was my second time to Berlin, and my first European SharePoint Conference.

With over 700 participants at the Estrel Convention Center, the Axceler booth saw a constant stream of activity, and I found myself booting up my laptop to provide additional demos as the two main monitors were constantly busy. While I am not much of a nightlife guy, we were able to pull together a SharePint event at the AM to PM Bar and Lounge with several other vendors, and spent some quality time with members of the SharePoint community outside of the convention center. Carrie Page provided a summary on the company blog here.

Metalogix Showcases Breakthrough Performance, Migrating More Than 500GB per Day With Migration Manager for SharePoint and StoragePoint at the European SharePoint Conference 2011
Metalogix Showcases Breakthrough Performance, Migrating More Than 500GB per Day With Migration Manager for SharePoint and StoragePoint at the European SharePoint Conference 2011
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Metalogix Executive Dr. Steve Marsh to Discuss Operational Benefits of SharePoint as the Decade’s de Facto ECM Platform for Organizations

BERLIN, Oct 18, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — European SharePoint Conference — Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R), Exchange(R) and Cloud platforms, today announced that it will showcase its comprehensive suite of solutions for SharePoint management during the European SharePoint Conference 2011. Metalogix is a sponsor for this year’s event and will demonstrate its innovative content lifecycle management solutions for SharePoint from October 17-20 at the Estrel Convention Center, Berlin, Germany, in booth #P4. In addition, Dr. Steve Marsh, Metalogix EMEA product marketing manager, will present a session on SharePoint as the sole Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform for organizations.

First announced at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference earlier this month, Metalogix is showcasing for the EMEA market the powerful performance enhancements to Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 that can move more than 500GB per day for high-fidelity SharePoint upgrades. These enhancements address the operational need for speed when moving, upgrading or migrating SharePoint content, including multithreading technology, by providing radical gains in migration speeds while simultaneously ensuring high fidelity movement and integrity of SharePoint environments.

Yes, It's Time for a SharePoint App Store by Steve Gaitten, Director of Online Operations at Bamboo
Yes, It’s Time for a SharePoint App Store by Steve Gaitten, Director of Online Operations at Bamboo
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I enjoyed a well-considered article from Global 360’s Derek Weeks today on CMS Wire. Derek asks, “Is it Time for a SharePoint App Store?”

It’s a great question, and one that many of us have been asking for years, with only one obvious answer: “Yes!” But perhaps the more important question is, “Who can deliver it?”

Derek says, “As millions gained access to SharePoint from IT organizations that deployed it without an explicit strategy, its out-of-the-box experience often left them disappointed.” In my opinion that statement is obvious and not even remotely controversial. It reminds me of some old creative concepts I had developed for Bamboo that never quite made it to market

Sanlam cut contract generation time from hours to minutes
Sanlam cut contract generation time from hours to minutes
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Independent investment and derivative structuring division of one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups, Sanlam, replace their manual process of generating Investment Fund Policy Contracts with Document Automation solution for SharePoint

Qorus Software, an innovative IT company focused on development of document automation software for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced that Sanlam Structured Solutions (SSS), a division of one of South Africa’s leading financial services groups, Sanlam Life Insurance Limited, are using Qorus DocGeneration in their SharePoint environment. Sanlam Structured Solutions (SSS), which designs and provides structured investment and retirement solutions for the institutional and retirement fund industry, are using Qorus DocGeneration, Qorus’ flagship document generation solution for SharePoint, to reduce the time required to generate their investment fund policy contracts

The Role of Governance in Migration Planning
The Role of Governance in Migration Planning
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In a CIOUpdate.com article entitled Prolific SharePoint Sites Undermine Governance, technology writer Jake Frazier outlines a common problem with the growing number of SharePoint customers: the uncontrolled growth of SharePoint sites, and how it impacts governance. SharePoint is proliferating in the marketplace, with KMWorld reporting SharePoint licenses at over 130 million worldwide. The more sites that are created and the more content added to your environment, the more difficult it can be to change course, correct mistakes, and implement a governance model. But the business value to having a formal governance model in place is enormous. As Mr. Frazier points out,

“To accomplish the defensible disposal of information, including information in SharePoint sites, companies must put in place and enforce a record retention policy that recognizes the three major reasons to keep information: business value, regulatory requirements and legal holds.“

Toxic Personalities: Preventing the Spread of Confidential Information
Toxic Personalities: Preventing the Spread of Confidential Information
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Enterprises from all backgrounds have heard the social media call. Breathless marketing executives presented the C-suite with crisp PowerPoint presentations showing case studies that encouraged them to reap the benefits of being open, social and transparent. That forced true change, with the C-suite altering practices and asking for more social activity and collaboration throughout the organization.

There’s only one problem: the whole idea has the security folks tied up in knots. The key challenge here is that as employees communicate openly with customers, partners, prospects and competitors, private and otherwise proprietary information within content management systems and on hard drives may leak out. And for many companies, a serious breach has already happened, as evidenced by recent headlines of significant fines that organizations such as the FTC, the Department of Health and Human Services, and others have imposed.

What is the Start Point for Business Process Automation By Eben Illingworth, Nintex
What is the Start Point for Business Process Automation By Eben Illingworth, Nintex
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Finding the right starting-point for business process automation is always a challenge, particularly when keeping the budget low is a priority. BPA (Business Process Automation) becomes profitable when a high volume of processes are automated, but how do you get to that point quickly to maximize ROI?

The Human Resources department is the answer. HR processes by their very nature are common to all employees so the processes you choose to automate there will reach the largest audience and return the highest value.

Some great processes to start with are:

Digital Signatures for Document Workflow and SharePoint
Digital Signatures for Document Workflow and SharePoint
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As business-critical processes continue to make their way onto SharePoint, they create an increasingly prevalent need for secure, legally-enforceable, and manageable automated signature capability. This is due in part by the fact that, without a digital signing capability within SharePoint, paper is introduced into otherwise automated processes each time the need for a signature authorization arises, thus creating the need to print, manually route, track, and archive paper documents. In addition to increasing organizational costs and inducing process delays, this reliance on paper hinders the enhanced efficiency and collaboration companies seek to achieve via SharePoint.

Blog 5 SharePoint Integration and User Management
Blog 5 SharePoint Integration and User Management
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SharePoint Integration

In the past, integrating multifunctional devices with SharePoint had been significantly difficult to achieve especially when the integration needed to take place not only on one Multifunctional device but on a heterogeneous fleet of devices. No wonder you can find all kinds of technical forums that have “SharePoint integration” as the topic of discussion and desperate administrators searching for help.

It is still a hard nut to crack for many IT specialists all around the world. Getting a fleet of multifunctional devices integrated with SharePoint and continuously maintaining and updating all of the configurations needed for a smooth documents workflow (just think of all the different user rights for specific folders, sites etc.), is a daunting task to be sure.