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One of the principal business considerations around the new SharePoint 2013 official release is going to be pricing. We already saw signs that with the Office 365 upgrade, Microsoft is pushing users towards subscription models. But what about SharePoint 2013 as SaaS? Web hosting vendor Newtek is going to be offering just that.

In the last post, I called it like I seen it: SharePoint out of the box can’t do records management. 2007, 2010, 2013 -- none of ‘em left to their own devices are worth much when it comes to automating the retention and (more importantly) disposition of your records according to the retention schedule.

It's been a long time coming, but all the recent spending figures and predictions have been pointing to this. According to a recent survey by Gartner, nearly 80% of enterprises indicated an upcoming increase in IT, while more than half have a digital strategy in place to direct enterprise spending.

There were a number of interesting releases in the document management space that are definitely worth a look. Among them are the new Service Pack 2 beta releases for Office and SharePoint 2010, WatchDox apps for mobile-desktop collaboration and sharing, and Docstocs new link-up to the Microsoft store. We also revisited the paperless office through EchoSign.

Larry Ellison has a dream. And at the moment it might be less about winning new customers than keeping the ones he already has.

Let’s start this admittedly provocative post with a question: Anybody out there actually doing records management in SharePoint?

If internal audit is to remain relevant, it needs to move beyond the services currently performed to provide assurance to the main stakeholders.

As a SharePoint MVP, active member of the global SharePoint community, an experienced project manager with knowledge of SharePoint business user topics, I am often asked "What are the best practices for SharePoint governance?"

Cloud-based infrastructure/application services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) is significantly reducing the cost of Windows-On-Demand instances for the Amazon EC2 scalable cloud computing service. 

Welcome! Yea, though a scurvy pirate or two has occasioned to dare set foot within our establishment, they were swiftly dealt with and ne’ery a one have been eyed since. Aaargh …’tis no safer place to bury yer treasure. Thar treasure chests are sturdy and their locks sure. We afford ye yer own shovel for buryin’ and the watchmen step lively to thwart the ne’er-do-wells. Would ye care for a copy of our SSAE-16? Did I mention that we’re PCI compliant?

Enterprises are hell-bent on managing data -- and managing data where there is no inherent data lifecycle management framework to leverage is a bear. A bear that most Enterprises prefer not to wrestle with.

Enterprise technology provider IBM is unveiling new data acceleration and Hadoop technologies it says will make analyzing volumes of big data faster and easier.

Data Visionary, Déjà Vu is not the name of a rock band I intend to form, but rather my look at the role technology plays in advancing information-driven innovation. To do this, I consider examples from the past that build foundations for an exciting future.

Open Source is sexy in a cloudy, big data world, but if you want your commercial-grade Hadoop distribution to be speedy, reliable and secure, you’ll be better off parting with a few dollars and buying a proprietary solution like ours.

If you think that talking about SharePoint migration challenges is like a broken record, think again. Not only are their new challenges with each new release of SharePoint, but migration isn’t just a one-time activity. Smart organizations know it’s an ongoing task. But more importantly, with the last release of Office 365, SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013, it’s even more critical to have a good migration strategy. Let me tell you why.