SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 News, Reviews

In a series of surveys last year of more than 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals, much was learned about how people "perceived" their organizations to be handling their SharePoint governance strategy. The data showed a large gap between those perceptions and what governance actually looked like inside businesses. 

What roles do social technologies play in facilitating collaboration? A new study by Avanade showed a large, but untapped opportunity to fully adopt and leverage social technologies for collaboration at work. 

Today, harmon.ie brings Office 365 to the mobile enterprise. With harmon.ie 4.0 for mobile devices, companies can be afforded the security and offline support for Office 365 file sharing, as well as complete access to SharePoint, Yammer and Office apps.

This week brought us some very interesting articles related to our month long theme on Customer Journeys. In the world of Social Business we took a look at social intranets and what the future holds for enterprise portals, while over in Information Management we learned the five things you should know before making the move to SharePoint Online.

With every new edition of SharePoint there’s a lot of new apps around that are key to getting the best of out it. This week AvePoint has a new meetings app to bring order to the content around meetings, Metalogix is offering a new way of assessing SharePoint storage, SharePoint Solutions automates site creation, and PartnerPulse monitors Microsoft partners.

Sales teams for Microsoft's Yammer social network will join up with the Office 365 team, the company has announced, all the more easy to integrate the two technologies.

So often when we look at how to work with SharePoint we focus in on specific features or functionality based on a silo of information, but the power of SharePoint comes in the ability of users to create simple solutions by combining multiple techniques and tools. 

Another milestone in the gradual upgrade of Office 365 -- SharePoint Online is finally out of preview. Although Microsoft doesn’t say when users will be able to get the new version, it does say that it will be soon and that users will be given notice of four weeks before they have to upgrade.

You've been thinking about it -- moving to Microsoft’s hosted version of SharePoint. Before you make that final decision, make sure you know about these five things.

I recently wrote about how you can create a roadmap to ensure your SharePoint 2013 rollout doesn't end up as an epic fail. I have to be honest with you now and let you know that I haven't told you everything -- in fact, unless you do the vital actions below there is a very good chance that your rollout may still "crash and burn."

As businesses evolve from being information or knowledge centered to being more people centered, SharePoint 2013 offers a range of features to support the shift. 

In the year 2008, Microsoft acquired a technology company called Fast Search & Transfer ASA for a whopping US$ 1.2 billion. With this acquisition, Microsoft capitalized on the reputation Fast Search had built for itself in the field of enterprise search and tightened its grip on the workspace collaboration ecosystem by introducing the Fast Search feature in SharePoint 2013.

Most web content management platforms support mobile: whether that's responsive design, mobile websites or mobile apps. Sitefinity 6.0 supports all three. Let's take a look.

We've already looked at the Knowledge community in SharePoint, now it's time to look at the Power User and the Operational Communities to see who they are,  and what the specific needs and best practices are for each.

This week there has been a lot of talk about SharePoint and while there are as many opinions as there are use cases, SmartLogic in a new paper says it could be a lot better. Elsewhere, newbie SkyKick has launched its Application Suite, while DocPath has integrated its document management system with Dynamics AX.