When SharePoint users need support, on demand, an in-context access system to video tutorials, and more, is the best solution

Perhaps an optimum method of helping users grow fonder of SharePoint computing can be found by equipping them with an easy to use support feature directly within the SharePoint computing environment, itself. Taking this step with a solution such as VisualSP™ makes sense for a couple of reasons: With help readily available within the SharePoint computing environment, users will be more likely to continue to use SharePoint features. So this type of in-context access system makes SharePoint computing “stickier”, thereby increasing the likelihood users will become familiar (and more comfortable) with computing “the SharePoint way” The in-context access system can…
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An added benefit of deciding to purchase VisualSP, the help system for SharePoint

VisualSP™, the help system for SharePoint, includes an in-context access method for SharePoint end users to consume training content uniquely useful on demand. The best example of this type of technical training content are short video tutorials. The combination of these two features has been shown to deliver high value benefits: SharePoint end users can actually start to manage themselves, which rewards them for their efforts to process computing tasks in a SharePoint computing environment. An added benefit is a reduction in support demand. But what about training for the personnel responsible for supporting these SharePoint end users? Can a…
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Function trumps form when SharePoint stakeholders consider how best to provision technical training content to end users

Branding should be an important consideration for SharePoint functionality wherever possible. A voluminous quantity of usability research has demonstrated the comparatively greater usefulness of technical features branded to appeal to end users. But for end users in need of technical training content to help them successfully complete work in a SharePoint computing environment, it may make more sense to eschew branding in lieu of greater functionality. Our VisualSP™ help system for SharePoint is a case in point. Out-of-the-box, the in-context access system of our product amounts to the tab it creates in a SharePoint 2010, 2013, or Online ribbon. But…
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In-Context Access to Training Content Presents Benefits Beyond a Reduction in the Cost of SharePoint Support

As Microsoft refines the features of SharePoint, and SharePoint Online, Office 365, and adds more services like Delve, these computer platforms will take on more of a mission-critical role for the organizations opting to implement them. In posts published on earlier dates to this blog, this writer has presented opinions about why computer platforms playing a mission critical role for the organizations opting to implement them tend to deliver substantially more value than platforms not chosen for such a role. This lesson does not appear to be lost on Microsoft. One can be confident product marketing will continue to add…
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Learn About Options for Deploying VisualSP in a Webinar to be Held on September 4, 2014

Over the last few months, SharePoint-Videos has released 3 new versions of its award-winning help system for SharePoint 2010, 2013 and SharePoint Online, VisualSP™. On September 4, 2014, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP, MCT, and founder and CEO of SharePoint-Videos will provide anyone interested in VisualSP with the information they require to select the best solution for their needs. If you are interested in learning more about this Thursday’s webinar, please visit Context sensitive SharePoint Help and Training for End Users on GoToMeeting.com. You can even register to attend this webinar via the link just provided. The 3 new versions of…
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Use VisualSP to Put a Damper on the Cost of Implementing SharePoint

In a blog post titled Estimating SharePoint 2013 Licensing Costs, written by Joe Cromer, Practice Leader, at Digital Evolution Group out of Kansas City, MO, a business can put together a broad estimate of the likely cost of implementing SharePoint Server on premises. From the information provided in Cromer’s article, we put together a cost estimate of $204K for an enterprise business with 1000 SharePoint users, 2 SharePoint 2013 Servers, and Enterprise licensing. This $204K cost is simply the expense of acquiring the system, and doesn’t include any of the costs required to install the system, configure it for targeted…
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Use VisualSP, the Help System for SharePoint, to globally deliver project-specific materials to teams

SharePoint is a useful computing platform for collaboration requirements like project management. VisualSP™, the help system for SharePoint, can be used to globally expose materials specific to projects to team members. This application should be attractive to organizations where: project team members are new to SharePoint computing and project management, nevertheless, needs them to adopt SharePoint computing, instead of the more familiar “email with a spreadsheet file attachment” procedure In this scenario project management creates a site collection for the project. A team site template should be used for the root site for this site collection. A unique “Scope” should…
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Use VisualSP, the Help System for SharePoint to Expose Training Content to a Wide Range of SharePoint Users

VisualSP™, the Help System for SharePoint®, can be used to expose training content tailored for end users. But the system can also be used to expose specialized training content directly to teams of developers spread out across an organization. Using the VisualSP™ system in this way, Line of Business (LoB) units can be pulled into the SharePoint implementation. Most heavily regulated businesses include a group tasked with ensuring the business complies with all of its regulatory reporting requirements. These compliance teams are usually granted a dedicated site collection in SharePoint implementations. The VisualSP™ Help System is installed for all site…
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New Features Are Added To VisualSPtm, The Help System for SharePoint

VisualSP™, the help system for SharePoint now includes several new features. Businesses of all types, with a serious commitment to SharePoint, should consider adding VisualSP™ to drive end user adoption of the SharePoint computing experience. The new features of our product promise to enable our customers to successfully capture a handsome return on their investment. VisualSP™, version 4.5.0, is installed via an executable. The application includes a number of wizards. These routines check to ensure the required components of a successful installation are all in place, before an attempt to install the product is undertaken. So the installation process of…
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Users Need Access to Training Content Directly Within a SharePoint Work Computing Environment

As we mentioned in the prior post to this blog, Windows IT Pro magazine has awarded VisualSP™ from Rehmani Consulting, Inc. (owner of SharePoint-Videos dot com with the bronze medal for SharePoint Product of the Year for 2012. In our opinion, the fact that our help system provisions access to users to a wide range of training content directly within the SharePoint work space is an important ingredient to the success of our product, and, in all likelihood, to our selection as winner of this award. Simply consider that users are generally slow to adopt procedures that they use infrequently….
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