On February 13, 2014, we will host an online class, Making Enterprise Social Real in your Organization with Yammer and SharePoint, which will be lead by Naomi MoneyPenney. Communities of SharePoint users interested in promoting collaboration between internal departments, or external partners should consider sending personnel to attend our class. It makes sense for any […]
Mandatory Requirements for Successfully Implementing SharePoint Collaboration Features
SharePoint-Videos.com offers specialized sets of video training content. Several of these sets are designed to show SharePoint stakeholders how to implement the computing environment in a project management scenario. Dux Raymond Sy, a SharePoint MVP and widely respected spokesperson on SharePoint authored both of these sets. Project management is merely one of several methods of […]
Comments on Implementing SharePoint for Enterprise Business Analytics
In its most recent quarterly earnings report, for Q2 2014, Microsoft® reported a 25% year over year increase in sales of SQL Server. I take this jump in sales as an indicator of the substantial interest enterprise business, and comparably sized organizations in the public and not-for-profit sectors have in gathering highly useful Business Intelligence […]
Are SharePoint Customizations Ever Really Transparent to the User?
At SPConf 2013 I spent a lot of time speaking to SharePoint Partners and Managed Partners about the value, if any, for them in a method of training SharePoint users to implement customizations, new features, etc. What I heard, in response, over and over again, was “our solution is transparent to the user”. In other […]
On Demand, In Context Content Delivery Systems Benefit SharePoint Partners And Users
I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in this blog talking about why SharePoint end users benefit from technical training content they can access when they need it (meaning on-demand), and where they need it, which is often directly within the workspace for SharePoint (in other words, in-context). SharePoint-Videos.com has developed a system capable of […]
Business Intelligence Systems can be Successfully Built on a SharePoint Server Foundation
This is the latest in our current series of blog posts. In this series we provide readers with some familiar application drivers, which some businesses will want to capture should they decide to implement SharePoint. Each of these drivers amounts to a popular solution in today’s enterprise computing markets. Once an organization decides to pursue […]
Regulated Businesses Looking for EGRC Capabilities Should Consider Building them On SharePoint
The cost of implementing an Enterprise Governance Risk and Compliance (EGRC) solution can be substantial. Back in June, 2012, in a product information guide for RSA Archer published on SC Magazine’s web site, Peter Stephenson estimated starting costs for a “mid-range configuration” at $55K. RSA Archer is one of several products capable of provising consumers […]
If you have a stake in the success of a SharePoint implementation, then user adoption is still a big deal
A number of colleagues have lately spoken about a diminished importance for SharePoint user adoption as an activity worth pursuing. But I think any member in an organization with a stake in the success of an implementation of SharePoint has to be concerned with user adoption. Bottom line: if end users do not use SharePoint […]
Planning for a Useful Search Service for SharePoint 2013
With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft® incorporated Fast Search into the server, out of the box. In order to capitalize on this updated feature, organizations need to evaluate current hardware infrastructure and make changes, as required. In a video tutorial set titled SP13-305 SharePoint 2013: Search Video Training Course, Agnes Molnar provides some specifications useful for the […]
SharePoint Site Collection Administration Becomes an Easier Process with Training
A lot of SharePoint functionality — regardless of the server version — is available at the site collection level. But site collection administrators are often selected at the department level, often will little attention to the level of technical understanding an individual may bring to the task. So training SharePoint site collection administrators makes sense. […]