Information Management News & Articles

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?"

This week kicked off our month-long focus on customer communities and brought in a few more perspectives on employee engagement. The common thread between the two? Get real. Genuine communications and actions will pay back your time with loyalty, advocacy and engagement.

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.

If there was any more bad news for PC makers in Gartner’s figures for the devices market between now and 2017, mobile and tablet makers would be fit to burst with happiness. According to this set of figures, tablet sales this year will be up 69%, while that of smartphones, excluding all other mobiles, will more than double to sales of over 1 billion units worldwide.

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

Last week, new research from AIIM showed that despite everything, the paperless office is further away that it ever was. Research just published by Adobe today confirms this, even if the majority of managers questioned in that survey do not like paper in their business processes.

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.

What large company doesn't need to make itself more efficient? However businesses define that term, and no matter what sector they are in, companies like Oracle are working to make their business decision management more unified and standardized.

Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can view the full calendar here.)

In recent months Amazon has done a lot of tweaking to its services as Google and Microsoft attempt to push it off the top spot as storage provider. This week, it has tweaked a little bit more, this time by adding file sync to its Cloud Drive.

Open source CMS provider Nuxeo has debuted native mobile apps on iOS and Android devices, and developers now have access to tools for building feature specific hybrid apps of their own.

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.