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Building Line of Business Dashboards with Business Connectivity Services
As noted on MSDN, a basis for visually presenting Line of Business (LOB) performance is to find “related or complementary information for a specific business entity” and to associate these streams of information into a composite view accessible via a web browser; for example, historical order history by sales territory. In sum, publishing LOB specific […]
Show Users the More Informative Possibilities Presented by SharePoint 2010 Document Sets to Accelerate Transitions from Folders
Document Sets, introduced with SharePoint Server 2010, constitute a powerful method of associating much more information with documents and even groups of documents than is the case with document repository strategies built on the premise that folders will be used to contain such data. An impediment to business users grasping the capabilities presented by this […]
Create Custom Style Sheets to Control the Visual Features of Groups of SharePoint 2010 Team Sites Web Pages
It is possible to create a custom Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), as required, for SharePoint Server 2010 Team Sites. This custom CSS can be stored to the Style Library repository of the SharePoint server. The CSS can be locally produced with as ubiquitous a tool as Windows Notepad. Once the CSS has been added to […]
Brand SharePoint Team Sites to Enhance Project Management Requirements
As noted on Microsoft®‘s Technet Website, Branding SharePoint 2010 Team Sites ensures that an organization’s unique logo, themes, etc are applied, consistently across all of the organization’s websites. SharePoint 2010 Team Sites are intended to ” . . .keep teams synchronized and to manage important projects. Teams can use these sites for tasks such as […]
Compile Accurate Business Intelligence Metrics with SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 and SharePoint Server 2010
As John Lauer and a team of supporting authors at Microsoft® made clear in a white paper, “How to Choose the Right Business Intelligence [BI] Technology to Suit Your Style”, “[b]usinesses, in an effort to stay one step ahead, collect large amounts of data ranging from demographics, buyer behavior, and customer loyalty to financial and […]
Managing Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010
The relevancy of search results in SharePoint Server 2010 depends upon taxonomies and the Term Store. Effectively constructing taxonomies while populating the Term Store with a comprehensive set of terms for the various content types produced by an enterprise business or large group of users in the public sector is a worthwhile endeavor. Relevant search […]
Business Applications for InfoPath 2010
Successful enterprise businesses that manage to capture lots of value (and almost always lower costs) through the purchase of IT software usually do so, in part, through clearly understanding the operational purpose of the software as well as its potential role in business processes. There is little point, if any, of purchasing software that neither […]
A SharePoint Designer 2010 Success Story Points to the Value of Training Staff to Use this Product with Microsoft InfoPath
In the fall of 2011, Microsoft Corporation published a case study about Trend Micro’s successful use of SharePoint Designer 2010 and Microsoft InfoPath 2010 to hasten delivery of important corporate information to any/all new hires. Trend Micro had extracted substantial value from its investment in SharePoint Server 2010 ” . . . [b]y taking advantage […]