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Last week was a busy one for conferences, but it was also a busy week for document management. BlackBerry users will be able to have access to Office 365 documents in beta, Colligo offers document management for SharePoint, eFileCabinet heads to the cloud, LibreOffice celebrates its first birthday and Version One partners with Intuitive.

For the last few months I have been working on a project for the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (an agency of the European Commission) to prepare a techno-economic assessment of the enterprise search industry and market in Europe. I’m not in a position to disclose the outcomes of the project, but in the course of the research I did examine how organizations went about selecting an enterprise search solution, and looked at the websites of around 60 vendors. At the same time I was working on an intranet strategy project for a European company with over 40,000 employees world-wide and no enterprise search capability! In this column I’ve summarized some of my conclusions from these two projects.

With all the money IBM has spent over the past three years on analytics, it’s hardly surprising that it is trying to get as many new releases out onto the market as possible. Over the week, it has added to what it already has in the analytics space by upgrading and releasing products aimed at improving business process and developing smarter applications.

The primary focus of the SharePoint Conference 2011 was on productivity with the SharePoint 2010 platform. As a result a number of case studies where presented, including this one from D&M Holdings, who designed a single SharePoint content repository to support multiple sites. Here's the whys and hows of what they did. 

While attending the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco last week, I had an opportunity to discuss the many different Oracle announcements with customers. The general theme from my conversations can be summed up as “Wow, that’s really cool, but how can it help me?”

Day two of the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim (held October 3-6, 2011) and around 300 people packed into the room to listen to Todd Ray, a Senior Business Strategy Consultant within Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Services. As part of this group's Enterprise Strategy Program, Todd works with Microsoft's enterprise architect community to implement Microsoft's Value Realization Framework. The demand for this session (#SPC226) was so high that people were turned away at the doors, and this was one of only a handful of sessions that had to be run a second time. Expectations were high…

At the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim California, Rob Koplowitz, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, shared the results of the Forrester survey on "Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Adoption and Migration." The crowd was near capacity, and full of questions about the various data points, and some of Forrester's qualitative input. The following is a synopsis of the session, with some of my own feedback on the numbers from their survey of just under 1,000 SharePoint 2010 customers, the Forrester interpretation of the data, and my thoughts on where there may be room for additional research and investigation.

The usual view of a conference is to hear about the latest in product development, or the road map of the next technology strategy; so if that’s what you are looking for, it’s not here. The story that gets missed is what happens on the exhibit hall floor and the latest in vendor booth tactics, which I cover in this article. Competition for which booth seems the busiest is fierce as the tactics to attract attendees range from old fashioned in- your-face intrusion to gimmicks that don’t necessarily attract qualified buyers.

The DAM Lowdown returns with: DAM Events, DAMMY Award Winners Announced, Widen Continues to Educate the Masses, How to Boost Social Media with DAM and DAM Stew.

Yesterday was the final day of the SharePoint conference. I chose to attend a morning session lead by Jeff Fried, CTO & VP of Engineering at BA Insight and Guy Mounier, Co-Founder & CEO of BA Insight. This session is a vendor-sponsored session, which means that the vendors are free to discuss their specific products and tools. I have worked in the past with previous versions of BA Insight and I was curious to see what they had in mind for working with Office 365.

Following the announcement in August that it intended to buy UK-based i2, IBM has announced that the deal has officially gone through and that i2 will now be incorporated into the analytics division of IBM.

Yesterday at the SharePoint conference I got to attend a session on best practices for building InfoPath forms (#SPC296). The session was presented by Darvish Shadravan, a Microsoft Senior Technical Specialist. Overall the session was really fast-paced and full of great content. I was actually surprised when the session ended because I had completely lost track of time. For me there were two big takeaways that I got from the session which I will share with you in this article.

It’s the final day of the SharePoint conference in Anaheim, and there are just a few loose ends to tie up before leaving. While there has been a lot to think about over the past four days, there were a few releases that slipped under the radar from EntropySoft, RIM and CommVault, as well as early results of some interesting research from Forrester.

One of the better foundational presentations on what is involved in administering SharePoint (the good and the bad) was conducted by SharePoint MVPs Shane Young and Todd Klindt at the SharePoint Conference this week in Anaheim, CA. While I've seen Shane and Todd present this session (or a variation) several times, their presentations are always worth seeing again. They do an incredible job of keeping people entertained while sharing their extensive experience in supporting, migrating/upgrading, and configuring a SharePoint server.
 

Open source content management provider Alfresco has announced the latest community release of their platform, Alfresco Community 4, at JavaOne and it’s packed with new features.