The voluminous set of webcasts published from Microsoft’s Tech Ed Europe 2014 event includes a number on Microsoft Project and Office 365. So Office 365 stakeholders with an interest in tying together a project management platform like Microsoft Project with Office 365 will probably want to spend sometime sampling the content. One of the webcasts, […]
Microsoft pushes hybrid cloud computing into the sweet spot for cloud PaaS solutions
If Microsoft’s Q1 2015 earnings report can be taken as a reliable measure of where it makes sense for them to allocate resources and focus, hybrid cloud computing is now in the limelight. SharePoint on premises and SharePoint Online, Office 365 are great examples of this concept at work. Earlier this week this writer published […]
Windows Developers can now use Office 365 REST based APIs to build the platform into their solutions
Windows application developers (working with Visual Studio as their IDE) can now build Microsoft Office 365 into their apps, and even solutions via . At TechEd Europe, Microsoft announced the availability of “REST based APIs” for Windows developers interested in building Office 365 into solutions and apps. SDKs for iOS, and a renovated SDK for […]
Implement a reliable enterprise social computing effort now to avoid having to do so later
Back in January, 2013, Gartner published a press release titled Gartner® Says 80 Percent of Social Business Efforts Will Not Achieve Intended Benefits Through 2015on the low likelihood of “social business efforts” succeeding by 2015. But the same press release makes clear the inevitability of success for these same efforts at some point in the […]
Be sure to include winning executive sponsorship as a core plank of your Office 365 adoption plan
Often stakeholders counting on a successful roll out of a new computing platform (like Office 365) for enterprise computing put together adoption strategies to hasten user adoption. But a core component of success, and, therefore, any adoption plan intended to support this goal, must be winning executive sponsorship. Microsoft offers a voluminous set of information […]
Microsoft announces roadmap to Typescript 2.0
SharePoint-Videos offers several sets of specialized video training content on the Office 2013 (and, by definition, the SharePoint 2013) App Model. Just to cite one of these sets here, we have published a set on JavaScript and jQuery led by Marc D. Anderson, a widely recognized authority on his topics. JavaScript and jQuery (which is […]
According to Microsoft’s new Office 365 Customer Success Center, communities are all about Yammer
In this, the final post on our current topic, Microsoft’s new Office 365 Customer Success Center on the web, the writer spends sometime discussing the “Communities” section of the site. The previous three posts provided readers with: an introduction to the Center and a look at the Scenarios section a deeper dive into the “Resources” […]
Champions of efforts to hasten user adoption of Office 365 computing will like the Adoption section of Microsoft’s new Office 365 Customer Success Center
In this third blog post on the topic of a new web site hosted by Microsoft titled Office 365 Customer Success Center the writer provides a description of the “Adoption” section of the web site. The first post on this topic provided an overview of the site along with a bit about how the public […]
As with many other valuable assets, the real benefit from Microsoft’s new Office 365 Customer Success Center can be found below the surface
This is a second post on topics germaine to a new web site launched by Microsoft in early October, 2014, the Office 365 Customer Success Center. This post describes the “Get related resources” and “Learn how it works” tabs included with each of the 5 “Scenarios” presented on the site. The first post on this […]
Another couple of points for organizations to consider when they consider migrating to SharePoint Online, Office 365
As Vlad Catrinescu, a Microsoft MVP and widely acknowledged SharePoint subject matter expert recently pointed out in a post to his Absolute SharePoint blog, Microsoft will soon remove two features from SharePoint Online, Office 365. Organizations contemplating an implementation of this cloud SaaS should familiarize themselves with the features before reaching a conclusion on this […]