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 […]

Microsoft Implements Context Sensitive Help for SharePoint Online

SharePoint-Videos has championed the usefulness of in-context, on demand technical help for SharePoint users across the full spectrum of skill levels, and rationales for using SharePoint. Our Group ID and Multi-User subscription offers can serve this purpose when pages of links to our content are included within a SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, or even SharePoint […]

Providing SharePoint Users with an In-Context, On Demand Training Resource Should be a Component of an Adoption Plan

SharePoint-Videos created the VisualSP™, Help System for SharePoint 2010 and 2013. VisualSP provides SharePoint with an in-context, on demand method of satisfying the needs of SharePoint end users to consume training content when and where they need it. But other types of training systems can be equipped with similar features. For example, enterprise organizations can […]

Implementing SharePoint 2013, On Premises, for Enterprise Document Management

SharePoint® 2013, on premises, is, perhaps, a less expensive option for organizations to implement than most dedicated Enterprise Document Management (EDM) applications. SharePoint-Videos.com offers a lot of video training content on the topic, including a set compiled from an online course we held recently, which was led by Chris McNulty, a widely recognized subject matter […]

The SharePoint 2013 App Model Resets the Administration and Support Responsibilities Between IT and LoBs Within an Enterprise

SharePoint-Videos.com offers a lot of video training content on the new App Model for SharePoint® 2013. This content includes: a broad overview on beginning to implement the new model, authored by Steve Fox, a Director at Microsoft Services a set on using the new model, which is authored by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, a widely respected subject […]

Implementing Workflows, and Document Imaging, as Policies, May Lead to Substantial Reductions in Paper Dependence for Regulated Businesses

In a case study titled Bank Innovates Work Environment, Boosts Performance with Social Collaboration, Microsoft® reports on the ambitious plan of a New Zealand bank, ASB Bank, to use SharePoint 2013 workflows in conjunction with Document Imaging (and what looks to be a formal records management procedure), to reduce paper dependence. As this case study […]