SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 News, Reviews

SharePoint best practices and advice are nothing new -- consultants like me have been inundating SharePoint users out there with our tips, tricks, advice, admonishments and so on for years. You could make a whole career out of doing nothing more than telling people what to do and what not to do with SharePoint…and lots of people do.

While SharePoint has been a leader in the document and content sharing category for some time, it has remained admittedly weak on the social media front. A number of companies from the third-party ecosystem are trying fill the gaps between the portal's strong points and shortcomings with infusions of popular functions, and we thought it would be useful to highlight a few of the top dogs:

Looks like vacations in document-management land are coming to an end. This week alone, Box enhanced its mobile document management offerings, Metalogix offers content migration from SharePoint to Documentum, PSIGEN offers Office 365 scanning, Cabinet NG upgrades CNG-WEB, and Fijitsu offers scanning for Laserfiche.

Legacy content and enterprise content management systems were always going to be one of the problems with SharePoint 2010 deployment. Slowly but surely, Metalogix (news, site) is going through the list of major enterprise CMs and providing a way of getting content from legacy systems into SharePoint. This week it’s Documentum's turn.

While SharePoint 2010 has introduced improved social features such as status updates, tagging, document ratings and document note boards, many IT organizations are looking for ways to expand social delivery beyond SharePoint’s out-the-box offer.

By now you've heard about our upcoming Tweet Jam on Wednesday August 17th at 1pm ET, 10am PT. It's about SharePoint in the Enterprise. Just thought you would be interested in the full list to date of experts and a reminder of the topics to be discussed.

While SharePoint 2010 leads in almost every Gartner Magic Quadrant in which it appears, it does not lead in social computing. But before you say anything about this perceived limitation, let’s explore what the platform’s real shortcomings are and how they impact the majority of businesses and end users, and discuss what additional investments you may need to make in order to ensure that SharePoint delivers the features and capabilities your employees need to be productive.

Sitecore (news, site), provider of web content management and customer engagement solutions, has released its SharePoint Integration Framework, which allows users to integrate Sitecore CMS with content stored in SharePoint.

SharePoint 2010 is like the Swiss army knife for information management. It is a versatile platform with capabilities covering many areas of information management, from publishing and document management to business intelligence and collaboration. However, just as you can cut yourself on a knife, there are ways you can either cut yourself on SharePoint 2010. In other words, there are ways to fail even with a capable and modern platform as SharePoint in your hands, and whether you will fail is determined by how you approach it.

We kept our focus on SharePoint in the enterprise this week, and will do so through the end of August. A few key articles stood out for your weekend reading:

• The Exec Perspective: 7 Things You Must Consider About SharePoint 2010
• The Art of SharePoint Success: A Quick Start Guide

In the news Quark got bought, we smelled success as portal revenues surged, link shortener Bit.ly acquired Twitterfeed, Oracle outlined the Fatwire roadmap and Forrester put the spotlight on mobile collaboration leaders.

Note: This month's Tweet Jam takes place on August 17th and will focus on SharePoint in the Enterprise. See Tweet Jam details here and please join the discussion on the 17th.

Most Popular

• The Root of All Evil: SharePoint Information Architecture and Happy End Users
• The Executive Perspective: Top 7 Things You Must Consider for SharePoint 2010
• Challenging Collaboration: Using SharePoint as a Collaboration Tool
• The Art Of SharePoint Success: A Quick Start Guide
• SharePoint: An Enterprise Solution for What?

Editor's Picks

• So, Just What Do We Mean by 'Information Management'?
• Oracle Outlines Fatwire's Customer Experience, Web CMS Roadmap
• Mobile Customer Experience: Native Apps vs Web Apps, You've Got Options
• How a Social Intranet Can Save Higher Education
• 5 Things You Need to Know About Office 365

Around the Web

• Content Strategy: Testing Mobile Content
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• Looking to the Frontiers of Social Business
• The Biggest Mistake Brands Make When It Comes To Social Media
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Our theme this month is SharePoint, which is kind of like Christmas for us CMSWire kids. Read on for expert perspectives on everything from effective governance to building a good records management foundation to a general quick start guide. 

When it comes to enterprise compliance and records management (GRC), collaboration isn’t usually the first word that comes to mind. In fact, "collaborative records management" sounds like a compliance nightmare. This is precisely why you need a good records management foundation, before moving into social business.

In this article, I give you some practical structure and tactics you can use to achieve effective SharePoint governance.

Fact: SharePoint was once a disruptive technology. For some, it still may be, but for many it's become part of the humdrum information management and social business infrastructure. This very notion of disruption-to-maturity is the basis of R. “Ray” Wang’s SharePoint Saturday presentation entitled: Addressing Key Challenges in Social Business Adoption: Lessons Learned in Putting the Social Business Maturity Framework to Work. Here are the key take-aways.
 

In my last article, I described the challenges that most law firms face when it comes to managing email, and set up the case study of Miller Johnson. In this article, I go over the details of the SharePoint solution that Miller Johnson eventually implemented.