SharePoint 2013 Analysis & Reviews

The 2012 SharePoint conference starts next Monday, and with a week yet to go vendors are already lining up with this year’s announcements. MetaVis, which specializes in SharePoint information management and governance, has announced that it will be previewing Informant for SharePoint.

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It’s moving quickly towards the end of the year and enterprises everywhere are starting to do the sums to see how much all their computing is costing them. If a newly published reported by Osterman Research is anything to go by, the cost of running SharePoint has jumped by 16% this year.

Content connector and enterprise search company, BA Insight will use its Longitude Connectors to connect the newest version of SharePoint to about 30 different business related enterprise systems, upon its release in November.

NewsGator has moved its Social Sites to the new Windows 8 platform. The Denver-based company announced this week an app that will offer its Social Sites on devices using that new OS.

On Friday at the SharePoint Symposium, as we contemplated the role of SharePoint in business and in life, it became very clear that the way most people approach the enterprise platform is not in tune with how they approach other life-altering events -- with caution and strategic actions. And the fact is, SharePoint will alter the way you work. If it doesn't, why are you spending so much time and money implementing it?

What better way to start the day than by asking some of the best known SharePoint experts about SharePoint? This morning SharePoint Symposium started with a Pundit Debate in which Tony Byrne, Mary-Foley and Martin White shared their thoughts on SharePoint today and its impact on the technology sector. Here's what we learned.

It’s not everyday that I attend a SharePoint conference and become engaged in academic discussions about the value of knowledge sharing and content intelligence. Such was the case when I attended the opening keynote of the KMWorld 2012 of which the SharePoint Symposium was a part.

For many years organizations have used SharePoint to create Intranet environments, a single location that can be used as a starting point to obtain all the information needed for employees to complete their work. Because SharePoint offered a rich set of tools that allowed for non-technical users to update the content, it became a platform of choice for many organizations. SharePoint 2013 offers additional functionality that will greatly enhance SharePoint’s capability for providing these types of solutions internally.

Gartner has released its latest magic quadrant (MQ) for horizontal portals. The market continues to evolve as platforms gain new features that increasingly blur the boundaries between the portal market and other sectors like content and experience management. The portal market may be changing, but Gartner’s vendor categorizations are very similar to last year’s incarnation of the report.

Information management solutions vendor MetaVis Technologies is making no bones about who is the target demographic for its new Information Manager Power User Edition. The tool is designed to allow SharePoint “power users” to migrate and classify data created and stored in SharePoint (including SharePoint 2013) and Office365.

Think you're not getting the most out of your SharePoint deployment? That's because you probably don't have the ability to experiment.

In this, the second article in the series, The Executive's Guide To SharePoint 2013, we are going to look at the potential benefits that successful use of communities can deliver, examine some best practices for ensuring success with communities, and show how to create a communities service with SharePoint 2013.

It’s been a while since Adobe did anything with Acrobat, but today that has all changed with the unveiling of Acrobat XI, which will be available to users within the next 30 days. This is a significant release of Acrobat with new cloud services as well as tighter integration into SharePoint and Office.

The recent beta of SharePoint 2013 brought with it a new version of its sister product: Project Server 2013. Project Server is built on top of SharePoint, and is designed to extend the capabilities of Microsoft Project for large scale enterprise project management.