SharePoint (MOSS) News & Articles

Last week we saw a considerable amount of movement in the document management software industry, not the least of which was the closure of the Xerox –ACS deal. The wheeling-and-dealing continues this week with the acquisition of AmberPoint by Oracle while AIIM and Gartner get back into gear with some research published recently.

In a continued effort to extol the virtues of the upcoming SharePoint 2010 (news, site) platform, Microsoft created a special competition for seven startups in their BizSpark program. The competition? In one week create an Enterprise 2.0 solution on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Here are the results.

With the release of SharePoint 2010 (news, site) getting closer, people are getting either a) excited, b) nervous or c) all of the above. Whatever your mindset, here are 5 changes coming with SharePoint 2010 which you should take note of.

It was inevitable that at this year’s LegalTech conference eDiscovery-related announcements would abound. So the announcement that archiving specialist Mimosa (news, site) and legal consulting and risk management company Navigant have integrated their products is not really that surprising. Between the two, they hope to be able to deploy software that cuts the costs of eDiscovery while providing a more efficient and more streamlined product.

Metalogix (news, site) knows the inner workings of SharePoint. And they like to help their customers work better and smarter with the platform, like helping them migrate data from other content management systems. Their latest Migration Manager works for Oracle Content Server.

It’s no secret that the new managed metadata service in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) will be a welcomed addition to the product. What may not be apparent is exactly how this service will benefit your end-users. It will. Here's how.

It’s raining cloud solutions, folks. LTech’s (news, site) latest baby is a tool called LTech CloudMove, which automates moving SharePoint documents to the cloud.

Excited to try out SharePoint 2010 (news, site) but not exactly sure how to get started? Microsoft is helping with the release of a free 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta).

SharePoint empowerment includes instilling proper discipline. Being able to define a process and use SharePoint to support it allows users to reap the technology's promise of streamlining work, increasing productivity and improving business efficiency.

Teaching how to define business processes is equally as important as it is developing a SharePoint solution to support them. You wouldn’t want your organization to end up being the SharePoint cobblers’ children, would you?

Want more proof that cloud computing is becoming very popular? Bamboo Solutions (news, site) has started up a new division focused on providing hosted solutions based on SharePoint.

The cloud is becoming a popular place, not everyone wants to deal with the licensing and deployment issues related to on premise solutions. Bamboo Solutions obviously sees an opening in the SaaS market that they can easily fill.

With SharePoint Online opening its doors to extensibility when it upgrades to SharePoint 2010, Bamboo has a potentially burgeoning market for its Web Parts, accelerators and applications. And there's room to develop even more. But that doesn't mean they should stop there.

The newly formed Bamboo Online Applications Group will develop and offer SharePoint based solutions themselves. The first of these Bamboo SaaS-based offerings will come sometime before the end of January in the form of collaboration solution. Called the Bamboo Requirements Manager (BambooRM™), it enables geographically dispersed teams to collaboration and communicate on demand.

Requirements Manager is just the start of a number of hosted solutions Bamboo will offer to small to medium sized businesses on a subscription basis. PMCentral, their flagship application, will also be offered as a hosted service at some point.

If you like SharePoint and you like the idea of someone else providing the application and platform for you, get ready to take Bamboo Online Applications for a trial run (they will offer trials).

Sometimes it really is the small things that count. Not that Adeptol’s new Enterprise Edition v4.4 document viewer is small, but the California based company’s latest version can load documents of up to 0.5 GB in one second -- one of its many small features that will please.

Oh to have been a fly on the wall at Lotusphere 2010 this past week. With what seemed like a never-ending ode to enterprise social computing, IBM (news, site) announced a number of updates and new projects that must have generated lots of excited whispers in the corners.

The Apache Lucene Connector Framework (LCF) has reached the next stage toward becoming an official Apache (news, site) project.

Like we hinted at earlier today, desktop collaboration solutions are kind of a big deal. The latest to support that claim is Colligo (news, site) whose life mission seems to be making SharePoint less of a headache. The company reported record sales in Q4 of 2009:

• Total revenue in the quarter increased 32% compared to the same period in 2008.
• Bookings of SharePoint products increased 51% during the quarter while revenues increased 44%
• Operating earnings were up 216% during the year.

Yes, it seem that like many other content management-related companies, Colligo has manage not only to survive the economic downturn, but thrive in it as well. 

“Closing the year with record sales and profits is a real testament to the contribution of the entire Colligo team and our worldwide partner network," said Barry Jinks, President and CEO, Colligo Networks. "2010 is poised to be another incredible year for Colligo with the launch of SharePoint 2010 and the opening of new markets in the enterprise content management and records management space."

Colligo's developments over the last year included the addition of Microsoft veteran Grego Noriskin as Product Architect, and Colligo’s Contributor Pro product being named a winner of the “2009 Community Choice Awards” in the SharePoint category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine. 

Follow up further by visiting Colligo here. 

One of the most well-known SharePoint-based social computing vendors, NewsGator (news, site) has just announced an acquisition deal with Tomoye (news, site) that expands their solution offering and markets, and could just put them above the rest for an end-to-end Enterprise 2.0 platform.