Nothing More – Nothing Less…
Whilst SharePoint 2010 is more intuitive than previous versions, mainly due to emulating the Office 2010 interface, it is still a new environment that users need to get comfortable with. In many cases how we expect users to transition users across to SharePoint is not considered and typically (because it is an IT managed change) a project ends when the final team site has been created.
It goes something like this…. Continue reading ‘It is this thing called SharePoint!’
I recently had to outline for a client the steps they needed to take to move from a solutions driven Information strategy to a governance driven Information strategy. The objective was to consider how this apparent low-priority set of tasks could in the longer term mean cost efficient management of company data and even today save resource time by reducing the time to find the most relevant data.
The neutralised report is attached which I will hope might assist you in fleshing out your Information Management plans. Open here Short White Paper on Information Management
First day yesterday and I did have to twitter everyone to say that Microsoft does have a winner in SharePoint 2010 although they do seem to have forgotten a few things.
Missing things tend to be small things that annoy when building sites and lists rather than large things that stops a coder delivering functionality… a typical example is the failure to provide a cascading Look-up field… which if you are not familiar would allow you to include a field in a SharePoint form that provides a drop down choice from another list within the same site. Continue reading ’100 Million Items in a list and SharePoint 2010 Conference Las Vegas.’
There are people much better than me at following the blogs and internet traffic on SharePoint and Office 20-10 (to be pronounced, Twenty Ten) but whilst most of the detailed SharePoint information is due to be released at SharePoint Conference in October my reading of the office 2010 information is starting to strongly hint at some real collaboration functionality between these two ‘joined at the hip’ products.
Continue reading ‘Implementation of SharePoint 20-10 might have got easier’
Steve looks at the problems of Data Storage and Knowledge Relativity that could be a solution for managing corporate data and saving back-up and storage Budgets.
The problem that most people face is that they don’t actually know what knowledge is, they have a great idea of what information is, organisations have Terabytes of it sitting on hard-drives costing money to support and protect. So how does one select the bytes that are knowledge and those that are not? The answer is relativity to the data… but let’s gets back to that later.
A Content Management System (used for Intranet or Internet sites) is one breed of web site and a Knowledge Management System is another.
Lets consider them both and look at the differences that add value to the corporate Intranet.