SharePoint 2010, SharePoint News, Reviews

The doctrine of natural selection or survival of the fittest….implies that when variations...of a beneficial nature happen to arise, these will be preserved.”

Charles Darwin, “The Origin of Species” -- Chapter VII

Today’s conventional wisdom says businesses already recognize the benefits of introducing social technologies like wikis, chat and microblogging into the organizational workflow. It’s just a matter of making the technologies available to employees who are already familiar with Facebook and Twitter.

Why, then, do we see such dismally low adoption of social technologies?

Even with the year winding down, there’s still some movement in the GRC space. This week, we looked at SharePoint governance with Quest, ASG bought Atempo, the new HIPAA standard is just about on top of us, and the U.S. government outlined its new security standards for cloud computing.

Heading into the holiday season and things are slowing down. But there are still some gems like SpringCM’s problems with Salesforce, Xerox’s progress in the MFP space, the iPad version of Microsoft’s OneNote productivity app, HP research that finds enterprises are not protecting documents and Mike Doane on effective taxonomies for documents in SharePoint 2010.

MetaVis has been busy since the release of SharePoint 2010, developing migration tools for content into SharePoint 2010 for numerous different applications. Today’s release, though, of a migration tool for Google Apps to Office 365 and SharePoint 2010, moves it all up a gear.

Ektron has announced that it now uses FAST Search Server for more than a search engine. It's now Ektron's answer to automating the creation of personalized content for your website.

Without being able to find documents quickly and easily, employees lose valuable time. By creating and maintaining strong taxonomies, enterprises ensure that easy access to important documents are maintained. In my last post, I demonstrated the necessity of good metadata to access digital assets. With this post, I explore how everyone across an enterprise can contribute to strong metadata in SharePoint 2010.

I had the opportunity to chat with Bill Evans, Quest Software's VP and GM of SharePoint and Chris McNulty, SharePoint Strategic Product Manager, on the governance issues SharePoint orgs are faced with and how Quest can help manage the chaos.

If Meg Whitman is already starting to make her mark on HP by reversing many of the decisions that her predecessor Leo Apotheker made and sticking to traditional HP business fare, it hasn’t stopped her from looking for new initiatives, as this week’s agreement with Microsoft shows.

Last month I dove into the problems that SharePoint brings to the workplace. Matt Ranlett, a colleague, didn't completely agree with me and addressed some of those points. But before we nip this "he said, he said" in the bud once and for all, let me offer a couple of clarifications.

Last post, I began looking at my picks for noteworthy enterprise CMS 2012 trends:

1. The rise of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
2. The evolving relationship between compliance and social media
3. ECM goes viral
4. Realistic retention
5. Mainstream Enterprise 2.0
6. Mid-tier ECM steps up to the plate
7. SharePoint decision time

I’ve covered #1 - #3 already (so start there if you missed it). Let’s turn now to the rest of them…

Blue Rooster has announced Sepulveda, a new enterprise social collaboration solution built on top of SharePoint 2010.

I know that for most the idea of getting rid of their inbox for good is simply a pipe dream (it's certainly my pipe dream). But until that dream comes to fruition we need to learn how to make that inbox more useful. For those who also use SharePoint in their organization, harmon.ie offers a tool to do just that. And they have the stats to back it up.

Each Web Content Management (WCM) platform has a sweet spot and making the right technology decision really depends on what is at the heart of your online business model. Understanding the business model for your website is fundamental in understanding whether Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is the right WCM platform for you.

This is article six in the epic saga exploring my Art of SharePoint Success framework for achieving long-term business benefits from investments in SharePoint based initiatives, (eagle eyed readers will note that last month’s article claimed to be number 6, it was in fact number 5).
There are four elements to the framework:

1. Governance
2. Strategy
3. Architecture
4. Transition

Last month we began our discussion of the Strategy element by posing the tricky question, “What is SharePoint?” I offered my answer which is,  

SharePoint is a set of integrated technologies which provides a platform upon which an organization can build a flexible, long-term information and knowledge management infrastructure.”

We discussed the concepts of SharePoint as a set of integrated technologies, and as a shared infrastructure. This month we explore the idea of SharePoint as an application development platform and examine the implications of deciding to fire up Visual Studio and cut SharePoint code.

Nottingham, England. Home of the heroic English outlaw Robin Hood and the venue for the second SharePoint Saturday UK. The excitement had been building for months.