SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 News, Reviews

There's something in the air today that makes me think about Tulip mania. Perhaps it's the warm weather. Or my allergies. Or maybe it's this sale I hear is going on today.

Regardless, our contributors this week had a lot to share on the subject of the mobile experience, both in and out of the office. We heard perspectives on how mobility is and will continue to change the structures of the workspace, how mobile is a good channel -- but not the only one, got a tip on how to choose your next Enterprise CMS and were urged to keep our content tidy.

Now about that sale...

Cloud content services provider Brightcove is easing the process of adding video to content management workflows with new prebuilt integrations between its Video Cloud platform and nine leading Web CMS tools: Adobe CQ5, Agility, Atex Polopoly, Drupal, Ektron, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, PaperThin CommonSpot, Sitecore, and WordPress.

I recently spoke with a client of mine on a new prospective project using SharePoint to deliver a records management solution. The solution was to replace an existing, outdated product that was in major need of a facelift.

Picturepark, a Swiss vendor of browser-based DAM software, is now providing a digital asset management layer for Microsoft SharePoint. The layer, known as SharePoint Connector for Picturepark, allows SharePoint users to leverage approval workflow, security, and asset processing functions from Picturepark without leaving SharePoint.

It’s a common story. An employee reads about how SharePoint is a great tool for document sharing and collaboration, a great place for teams to work on projects, a great tool for the company intranet. They go out, get approval for the software, get IT to install it on a server(s) and then they start moving documents and content over from file shares, from desktop folders, from old databases. Everyone starts to use it.

Oddly though, no one is happy.

Change control can be an issue if you’re managing a project largely using email. SharePoint Online contains robust out-of-the-box change control capabilities to help you keep project documentation manageable and clean.

This week there’s been a number of items, including the partnership between M-Files and goVirtualOffice for NetSuite Integration, Laserfiche has released an app for iPad, Zoho continues to offer social capabilities, Metalogix releases SharePoint Content Manager and Hannon Hill releases Cascade v7.0.

Transition is the umbrella term that I use to refer to the combination of change management and user adoption which are vital ingredients in the success of SharePoint. This week we’ll be taking a look at what 1940’s North American farmers can teach us about SharePoint adoption.

This is the third article in the series “What is This SharePoint Thing All About Anyway?” and in this article we are going to be looking at the concept of SharePoint Communities and how you could use them to improve your current working environment.

Metalogix Software has released a solution that makes it faster and more efficient to manage content in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The new solution, Content Manager, enhances SharePoint with the ability to make bulk edits to metadata and a ribbon that makes it easier for users to have access to advanced features such as taxonomy.

It seems like only yesterday that we were shouting about the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. In fact, it is just about two years ago (May 12, 2010) that it was released. And with a mere two years on the market, we’re starting to shout about the release of the next edition -- SharePoint 15.

This week, there have been a number of interesting releases, including haromon.ie’s app for document collaboration for SharePoint accessible on iPad, Halcyon has updated its document management software for IBM i, Sertifi is offering free e-signing in Salesforce and Accusoft offers cloud capture for Silverlight.

Dashboards are a pretty hot topic these days in online applications. Dashboards let you place frequently accessed information all on one single page and lend themselves particularly well to placing graphical info about your project in one place where it affords your team and senior stakeholders the ability to grab visual info quickly.

Harmon.ie, the enterprise workflow integration specialists, has debuted a new mobile SharePoint iPad app, and the company promises a full mobile device management offering by the end of June.

Since Colligo released Colligo Briefcase Enterprise for iPad in December, it has been putting a lot of effort into developing it as more enterprises take iPad on board. In February it introduced Colligo Briefcase Pro, adding extra muscle. Now it has released v2.0 with added functionality.