SharePoint 2010, SharePoint News, Reviews

Beijing, China-based SharePointBoost announced a new web part Permission Reporting Tool to validate individual and group permission status. The company targets improved functionality for SharePoint with a host of web parts that streamline web administrators tasks. For example, last year at this time, SPBoost launched its Outlook workflow solution to customize the out-of-the box SharePoint solution with e-mail drag and drop support from within Outlook.

Intranet governance is critical to intranet success. Why, then, do so few organizations get it right?

I’m at the end of a series on how to build and deploy successful SharePoint document management applications, with the goal of migrating end-users off of the most prevalent legacy document management system out there: that unholy trinity of shared drives, hard drives and email.

According to the initial results of a Microsoft SharePoint governance survey commissioned by Axceler, more than two-thirds of the respondents consider SharePoint governance to be extremely or very important to their organizations. Yet nearly half of those same respondents confirmed that SharePoint governance policies do not exist or are undefined.

In yesterday's article, “The Evolution of SharePoint Project Governance: Lessons Learned,” we explored the differences between SharePoint governance of the past and today’s holistic view of SharePoint governance as it relates to organizational goals and business needs. Today we reveal how an organization can move from the antiquated form of SharePoint governance to a modern form of SharePoint governance that provides true business value.

Organizations have been talking about “effective governance” for years in relation to large-scale systems, but the emergence of governance in the SharePoint world is relatively recent and still fairly immature.

In this week's installment of The Art of SharePoint Success, we are going to consider how we can further evolve the model developed in the previous two posts, discuss what Microsoft are doing to “fix” their own intranet and speculate wildly about what might be coming in SharePoint 15.

Hold on to your Easter bonnets…

If you think SharePoint deployments are already extensive, then they’re about to get even more so. Colligo has announced that its document management and email management products for SharePoint are now available through GMP on the General Services Administration (GSA) contract Schedule 70.

Digital Asset Management is a specialist sub-set of Content Management, one which has developed along it's own evolutionary past. It has grown out of the needs of the traditional publishing industry to manage photographic images for print publications, and developed into an adjunct of web content management to manage still images, video and audio files as "rich media" content for web sites and other media.

Recent research from Harris Interactive (on behalf of Microsoft) offers an idea of what's important in the area of enterprise social networking. Microsoft Director of SharePoint Product Management, Jared Spataro, offers the SharePoint point of view on that research.

This week Info-Tech continues its analysis of the enterprise content management market and finds that mobile and mobility is disrupting the entire market, Perceptive takes its cloud offerings international, HarePoint offers new SharePoint workflow extensions, and BPS takes its Capture to the cloud.

In previous articles, you’ve learned how to set up your project site, created a document library, learned how to collaborate on project documentation in real-time, and linked your document library to Outlook to further facilitate collaboration. Now it’s time to delve a little more deeply into the project management side of things, apart from basic collaborative efforts.

Just because IT owns the technology platform, that doesn't mean they know best how to implement it.

This week we've got questions (and answers) for you:

• How do you get your employees to care about the customer experience?
• How do you deliver a personalized experience to every visitor?
• How do you measure digital influence accurately?

These are just some of the topics we explored this week -- and the answers have been enlightening.

Customer Experience Management (CXM) is on the mind of every CEO, CIO and CMO and there are no easy answers, no cookie cutter blueprints to do it right.

Tomorrow we welcome you to April -- join us this coming month as we look at the evolution of Digital Asset Management (DAM) and it's increasingly important role in the online customer experience.

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