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!).

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.

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 .

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 [...]

Document migration in SharePoint: Your options

Overview As I mentioned in my last post there are a number of in-built tools and other options to help you migrate your content into and around your SharePoint environments. “SharePoint is the natural replacement for your ageing file shares and other data repositories” The very real and important question arises over what to do [...]

Migrate or move content inside SharePoint

  Introduction Migration is always a thorny topic that comes up on a project at the beginning in terms of scoping a project,  towards the end during rollout or adoption phases, or once the project is closed and users are left on their own. The activity of migrating or moving data into or between team [...]

Did you achieve your SharePoint ROI?

When was the last time you read a business case which contained tangible (specifically financial) cost savings for recommending Microsoft SharePoint to be deployed into your organisation?

Page weight in SharePoint

When looking to design, build and introduce any SharePoint based environment into your business, like any web based development that is accessed via a variety of internet browsers, you need to consider (amongst a whole host of other things!) the page weight of your users home page. Be that the main intranet home page, internet [...]

Growth in third party tools in SharePoint

Growth in third party tools in SharePoint

We have worked with SharePoint as a framework since its first full scale release in 2001. Since then we have witnessed the steady growth in third party tools in SharePoint to provide either enhancements to weaker functionality provided ‘out of the box’ (OOTB), or new features to complement existing core functionality.