SharePoint 2010, SharePoint News, Reviews

In early January, we predicted that Colligo would be one of the vendor’s third-party SharePoint products to watch this year. In December, it introduced Colligo Briefcase Enterprise for iPad. Today, in keeping with our earlier predictions, it has released Colligo Briefcase Pro.

Jesse James Garrett quietly published the second edition of his requisite “The Elements of User Experience” last year, almost ten years after the first volume issued. Reading his book in light of today’s SharePoint governance plans is a fascinating hindsight exercise.

This week, OpenText releases a capture solution that provides easier retrieval of content in SharePoint, DocuWare provides better email compliance management and Guidance announces that it is buying CaseCentral, while SAI outlines GRC predictions for healthcare.

Organizations deal with a lot of confidential information every day, information that is typically managed using business applications, like SharePoint. That means that properly implemented and managed security is critical to these applications.

This week Microsoft and Google started popping at each other again over Office, Laserfiche gets data mining in v8.3, SeeUnity offers iPad access to SharePoint documents and Open Text eDOCS, while Idera offers document encryption to SharePoint users.

In my last post, I sketched out at a high level what I see working at organizations trying to move off of older repositories onto SharePoint. 

What I want to do in the next few posts is walk through a process that, while by no means a silver bullet, gives you a better chance of success than the typical approach.

If you want to succeed in business today, your organization must embrace social technologies -- not just for your customers but also for your employees. But where do you start? Start with building the foundation.

For those who already think they have it under control, check out these two articles:

• The Digital Workplace: How Sociable is Your Intranet?
• 5 Signs Your Company Doesn't Get Social Business

We are gearing up for our February 22nd Tweet Jam on Social Business (#SocBizChat). If you are interested in participating or have a question you want answered, drop us a line.

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Featured Events (all events | post your event)

• Feb 28, 2012 – (Webinar) How to Build Great Mobile Websites
• Mar 06, 2012 -- Get Social with Microsoft & Telligent in Dallas
• Mar 12, 2012 -- Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit Orlando
• Mar 20, 2012 -- Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City
• Mar 20, 2012 -- AIIM Conference San Francisco

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• Director of Customer Success Management in Nova Scotia at Radian6
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• Web Content Manager in Newport Beach at Orange County Museum of Art
• Senior Business Analyst in London at Microsoft

With the imminent arrival of Social Media Week and speculation on how many will join the ranks of millionaires (or billionaires) in light of Facebook’s IPO, Social has been on a lot of people’s minds.

Our experts brought us back to school this week and offered some practical advice on how to capture the power of social software to create more agile, responsive and collaborative organizations. Some commonly held myths about Drupal were dispelled, we remembered the customer and got some practical, strategic advice on information architecture tools and things to remember when shopping for an Enterprise CMS.

School’s in session!

Any confusion about what ARM-processor-powered Windows 8 devices could and couldn't do has been cleared up by Microsoft. This new class of non-Wintel machines will do a limited amount of what your current PC can do, as they are limited to apps from the Windows Store.

A fair amount of work goes into the role of a SharePoint Information Architect. And every architect should have his tools, right? What does Microsoft provide out of the box, to design, deploy and manage an information architecture in SharePoint? Let’s have a look.

This week in the DAM lowdown: printers are providing DAM solutions for clients, Adobe's VP of Enterprise Marketing explains the company's fresh focus, tips on how to leverage your assets to grow your audience and a case study relating one company's quest to find the right DAM solution.

In our last gripping installment we began to consider the business case for SharePoint and I introduced the ideas of the Left Brained and Right Brained business case. In this episode we’re taking the excitement to unprecedented heights as we analyze the costs of SharePoint.

The Smartsheet project management tool now integrates with Box, the popular content sharing and collaboration service.

As we wrapped up January’s focus on Customer Experience Management and turned to Social Business for February, our experts offered some great advice on how to keep your pesky taxonomies neat and tidy, shared insights from thought leaders in the Social Business and Risk Management fields and had a moment of silence for Knowledge Management.

Read on for more great counsel from the experts: resistance is futile!

The last we spoke with CommVault they were weighing in on the burden of e-Discovery. Today, it is unveiling “new, next-generation Singular Information Management innovations” designed to advance its data management solution, Simpana. In 2010, Simpana underwent a redesign and while these new offerings don’t necessarily qualify as a version update, they definitely provide customers will plenty of new features.