Older versions of SharePoint

Older versions of SharePoint will continue to add a lot of value. But it’s true older versions of SharePoint can simply be upgraded to the latest version.

The business case for SharePoint 2013

So what does the business case for SharePoint 2013, Microsoft’s latest release of its popular software, look like? Well, it depends, (as always!).

SharePoint User Experience – HBR Blog: Don’t Confuse Engagement with User Experience

SharePoint user experience With 5 versions under its belt, Microsoft has finally given its flagship collaboration platform a much needed bit of love and attention for the SharePoint user experience and importantly user engagement aspect of its product. More on this in future posts. Fig1 On the left for those that don’t remember or who [...]

BIG Data, Collaboration and Search in SharePoint 2013

Seminar on search driven solutions and search enabled business models, who use Microsoft FAST search technologies in SharePoint.

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 follow on

There were some 250+ session spread across three audiences – Business Decision Maker, Developer and IT Pro. These are all listed on the site for anyone to see at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 site.

We’re going! SharePoint Conference 2012

Some of the team will be attending this year’s main event in Las Vegas – Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012.

We hope to meet up with others during the week that we are there and enjoy what the event has to offer.

SharePoint as a business application framework

SharePoint as a business application framework We described previously that businesses should be viewing SharePoint as a business application framework rather than just a piece of software that ‘handles your documents’ or as I once heard it called ‘it’s just an intranet application’! Indeed, it provides an underlying application development and ‘hosting’ environment in which to [...]

Keep your SharePoint and IT strategy in sync

Why it’s important to keep your Keep your SharePoint and IT strategy in sync with each other, no matter what version of SharePoint you have .

Interested in SharePoint 2010?

I have had the privilege (and retain many scars!) of having worked with SharePoint since it’s first launch in 2001 and have seen successive updates to the platform over the years, as well as witness the growing adoption by businesses as one of the key ‘building blocks’ of technology being implemented to deliver both strategic [...]

Document migration in SharePoint: Considerations

  Background I mentioned in my last post entitled “Document Migration in SharePoint – Your options”, that there are basically 4 main options available to you when deciding whether to migrate content from your file shares and other repositories. To summarise: Migrate completely into SharePoint *Partial migration of a subset of the content into SharePoint [...]