In January of 2010 FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 10-06. The intention of this regulatory notice, as presented elsewhere on the FINRA web site, is to provide reporting guidelines for “communications to the public to social media sites”. Heavily regulated financial businesses with an implementation of SharePoint 2010, or 2013 already in place, may want to […]
Microsoft Partners Working On a Collaboration and Content Competency May Want to Study Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
In a post to the U.S. Partner Team Blog on Technet, titled ‘Build your SharePoint business with the Collaboration and Content competency’, Diane Golshan of Microsoft writes: ‘implementing business-critical solutions with line-of-business (LOB) data coming from disparate systems surfaced in SharePoint’ is an example of one of the ‘tremendous opportunities’ in front of U.S. partners […]
Subscribers to SharePoint-Videos Can Now Track Their Progress Through Courses of Training
One of the challenges of self paced training is finding the inspiration to continue through a set of learning objectives. A lot of research has shown positive reinforcement to be the best method of providing individuals with the momentum they need to attain difficult objectives like this one. The best way of delivering positive reinforcement […]
‘Discover SharePoint’ is All About How SharePoint 2013 Features Support Collaboration
Perhaps someone in the SharePoint product management team decided the real market for SharePoint are organizations with a burning need for collaboration. Discover SharePoint, Microsoft’s promotional web site for SharePoint (which includes a set of videos which each appear to comply with Section 508 U.S. Federal regulations), does a great job of presenting these features, […]
OData Support is an Improved Feature for SharePoint 2013 for Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
With the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) component behind Office, and SharePoint 2013, better support is available for services running the Open Data (OData) web Protocol. This new BCS component complements the Office, and SharePoint 2013 App Model, both of which, in turn, are very deeply based on web development tools — HTML and JavaScript. […]
Include a Back Up Method Before Deciding on a SharePoint Online Implementation
Few organizations can afford to risk exposing proprietary information to a single data storage solution, regardless of whether the solution is on premise, or in the cloud. But there is no clear, simple path to backing up SharePoint Online data, and or even Apps. Therefore, it makes sense to plan on back up before finalizing […]
Regulated Businesses Should Carefully Consider the Implications of Replacing SharePoint’s Newsfeed with Yammer
Heavily regulated businesses in the financial services sector should carefully consider the implications of replacing SharePoint’s Newsfeed with Yammer. The task of complying with new FINRA regulations, specific to conversation “surveillance”, which are set to go into effect in December, 2014 may be much harder to achieve with Yammer, unless the migration is carefully researched […]
Add to the Value of SharePoint 2013 Search by Customizing How Query Results are Displayed to Users
The Search Service in SharePoint 2013 represents a substantial change from its SharePoint 2010 predecessor. Fast Search has been built into the new service. At the same time, the new SharePoint 2013 Master Pages and Page Layouts feature can be used to create custom templates for enhancing how search results are displayed to users. In […]
Microsoft Turns Up the Volume on Why Developers Should Embrace The Office and SharePoint 2013 App Model
Microsoft has started a concerted effort to persuade Office Developers and SharePoint 2013 Developers to embrace the new App model. This effort includes the launch of a Reimagine SharePoint development site, a set of videos with the same title on MSDN Channel 9, and even dedicating an Office 365 technical webcast to the topic. This […]
Microsoft Adds Another Reason for Organizations to Choose Office 365 – Document Conversations
Microsoft acquired Yammer in June, 2012. But to date, Yammer appears to have exclusively appealed to organizations with a deep commitment to nurturing collaboration. Some organizations fit this model, while others clearly do not. One can argue this ‘on off’ characteristic of consumer appetite for Yammer presents both a challenge, and an opportunity for Microsoft […]