Organizations planning to implement Office 365 need to provision resources for crucial components of a successful effort in this direction. In a video tutorial titled Managing Office 365 Identities and Services: (01) Preparing for Office 365, which is authored by Jeff Koch of Microsoft Learning Experiences. The training presentation is led by Anthony Steven, Principal […]
A Realistic Approach to Content Governance with SharePoint 2013
In a post to AIIM’s Expert Blogs titled Enterprise Content Governance 2014: A SharePoint Point of View, Mike Alsup, Senior Vice President at Gimmal Group draws a quick sketch of what I would characterize as a realistic view of the components of a truly useful content governance plan for an ECM effort for a larger […]
Build SharePoint 2013 Prototypes Quickly and At Low Cost with Windows Azure
Virtual machines provide users with a number of high value advantages, not the least of which is freedom from the burden of underpinning development efforts with otherwise costly infrastructure components. Windows Azure is available to support a wide range of virtual machines, including SharePoint server 2013. We use CloudShare‘s Enterprise plan, which offers comparable features […]
SharePoint has All of the Components of a True Information Governance Platform, But Building a Plan is a First Step to Realize this Benefit
As I’ve written fairly extensively to this blog, SharePoint server, from 2007 to 2013, and even SharePoint Online, Office 365, offers a series of very useful features, out of the box, for either an Enterprise Content Management (ECM), or a Document Management (DM)/Records Management (RM) application. SharePoint-Videos also offers a lot of recently published video […]
Results of a Recent Study Point To Organizations Beginning to Embrace Office 365 in Meaningful Numbers
According to a survey titled SharePoint and Office 365 Metadata Survey White Paper, 34% of 396 organizations included in the survey reported using Office 365 and SharePoint Online. The survey was sponsored by ConceptSearching, and published on April 30, 2014. When we compare this claim to an earlier one on precisely the same subject — […]
Is Enterprise Business Still Moving Slowly Towards SharePoint Online?
Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings report included a claim Office 365 sales are increasing at the rate of a business with $2.5 Billion in annual sales. This figure is significantly higher than the $1.5 Billion annual sales rate claimed, in the past, for SharePoint. But what portion of all of these new customers are representative of […]
Are SharePoint Social Features a Useful Method of Motivating Users to Increase Adoption?
As a report titled SharePoint 2013 Clouding the Issues, which was published by AIIM, points out, despite the popularity of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Document Management (DM) applications for large organizations using SharePoint, 26% of respondents reported very low usage of the platform by so-called “active users” — only 1 in 5 users in […]
Microsoft Focuses on SharePoint Online, but are Enterprise Organizations Ready for the Cloud?
The biggest impediment, for most enterprise businesses considering Office 365, can be found in public discussions about online security. Office 365 is a suite of computer applications delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). Ostensibly the same well-publicized vulnerabilities endemic to an ever growing set of SaaS offers (including Amazon.com, and even Apple’s iCloud, albeit […]
Enterprise Content Management and Document Management Applications for Sharepoint are Popular With Larger Organizations
SharePoint-Videos offers several sets of video training content on key components of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) or Document Management (DM) application for SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013. These sets include: SharePoint 2013: Enterprise Forms SharePoint 2013: Records Management
SharePoint 2013 is Widely Recognized as an Attractive Solution for Information Governance
SharePoint-Videos publishes lots of training content on configuring SharePoint 2010 and 2013 as an enterprise solution for records management, or content, or even document management. We aren’t alone in this opinion. No less an authoritative source as Forrester Research offers a webcast and/or a report on the same topic. Further, when we used the Google […]