SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 News, Reviews

This is the third article in the series “What is This SharePoint Thing All About Anyway?” and in this article we are going to be looking at the concept of SharePoint Communities and how you could use them to improve your current working environment.

Metalogix Software has released a solution that makes it faster and more efficient to manage content in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The new solution, Content Manager, enhances SharePoint with the ability to make bulk edits to metadata and a ribbon that makes it easier for users to have access to advanced features such as taxonomy.

It seems like only yesterday that we were shouting about the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. In fact, it is just about two years ago (May 12, 2010) that it was released. And with a mere two years on the market, we’re starting to shout about the release of the next edition -- SharePoint 15.

This week, there have been a number of interesting releases, including haromon.ie’s app for document collaboration for SharePoint accessible on iPad, Halcyon has updated its document management software for IBM i, Sertifi is offering free e-signing in Salesforce and Accusoft offers cloud capture for Silverlight.

Dashboards are a pretty hot topic these days in online applications. Dashboards let you place frequently accessed information all on one single page and lend themselves particularly well to placing graphical info about your project in one place where it affords your team and senior stakeholders the ability to grab visual info quickly.

Harmon.ie, the enterprise workflow integration specialists, has debuted a new mobile SharePoint iPad app, and the company promises a full mobile device management offering by the end of June.

Since Colligo released Colligo Briefcase Enterprise for iPad in December, it has been putting a lot of effort into developing it as more enterprises take iPad on board. In February it introduced Colligo Briefcase Pro, adding extra muscle. Now it has released v2.0 with added functionality.

The humble "org chart" might feel like an outmoded concept, but they can serve a very important purpose for many companies -- especially in a turbulent economy.

The Space Shuttle Enterprise flew past my apartment as I wrote this. That's nice, you say, but what does that have to do with information management?

It takes a lot to make people in New York look up, but they did. People came out on the streets and on their rooftops to catch a glimpse of this one time phenomena. They captured it with photos and in video. These are images they might want to show their grandkids some day. But if the format they recorded in is no longer existent and they did not have the foresight to convert their files, these images will just be a story to share.

This week our experts shared their knowledge on DAM and challenged us to think about these questions a little more.

Read on.

In the previous article in this series “What Is This SharePoint Thing All About Anyway?” we discussed the various components that make up SharePoint. In the article we highlighted the primary components, and starting in this article we are going to be doing a deeper dive into each of those areas. The first one we are going to work through is the concept of Sites.

Last year, we marveled at the speed at which Wiggio, a Boston-based software company, gained the following of 400,000 users engaged in its suite of online collaboration tools aimed at managing social activity. This year, the folks at Wiggio are celebrating an impressive milestone of 1 million users.

Hello from my room in a rather nice hotel overlooking the river Thames in London, where I am staying for the International SharePoint Conference ☺

This article is the beginning of the end as we move on to the final element of Art of SharePoint Success framework, Transition. Transition is the umbrella term that I use to include change management and user adoption. As a former colleague of mine used to say, it’s about moving the organization from the old world to their new world.
 

This week, Microsoft offered us a new definition of pulling speed when it took Office for Mac SP2 off the shelves, SharePoint and DotNetNuke get close, SpringCM joins the mobile party, Perceptive also gets mobile with Interact and Adobe releases CS6/Extended.

DotNetNuke announces improved SharePoint integration with support for SharePoint 2007 and 2010.

For readers unfamiliar with my opinion on SharePoint, look no further than my rant from late last year. However, I see one thing that to me is infinitely worse. It may even be common ground in a shared perspective with comrade Matt Ranlett, who wrote a nice rebuttal. Given my final retort, some SharePoint denizens may read this with a skeptical eye. But I ask you to put aside your predisposition and judge my argument on its merit.