Any enterprise content management (ECM) system (including solutions built on Microsoft’s SharePoint Server, on-premises, and/or SharePoint Online, Office 365) should include governance, if it is to be successful. Joe Shepley provides a succinct presentation of the importance of governance in an article titled The SharePoint Information Problem, which was published on the CMSWire website in […]
Why a governance plan for SharePoint should be implemented for software dependent on the platform
SharePoint 2013, on-premises, and SharePoint Online (a component of Microsoft’s Office 365 application suite) present stakeholders with a set of challenges. Perhaps this is nothing new, and normal for any decision to implement a computer technology solution for a specific organization, and its unique set of characteristics. But for any organization with a long-standing commitment […]
Be sure to include an ongoing adoption effort in your SharePoint, or SharePoint Online plan
A couple of recently published articles by prominent individuals in the SharePoint community – Chris Riley and Christian Buckley – remind me of an important feature of SharePoint plans more likely to succeed. These plans treat the challenge of user adoption as a chronic condition requiring continuous effort. Riley’s article is Why I Left ECM. […]
Ask questions before leaping into an enterprise social effort for the best possible chance of success
Many of the same type of questions most subject matter experts recommend be asked about any plan to implement SharePoint 2013, or SharePoint Online, Office 365, should be included in any plan for an enterprise social effort, at least according to Naomi Moneypenny. Moneypenny presents these questions and her rationale for adding them into any […]
For organizations with many users on OneDrive for Business, drafting a list of policies and approved procedures makes sense
OneDrive for Business has, at its core, the structure of a document library for SharePoint Online. But several unique features have been added to this cloud, SaaS. So organizations with many OneDrive for Business users will benefit from a formal set of policies and procedures. The most prominent of the additional features of OneDrive for […]
Open Shared Document Libraries in SharePoint Online With Explorer to Move Files from OneDrive for Business
For organizations with a presence on Office 365, and SharePoint Online, Microsoft’s recent announcement of 1TB of storage, via One Drive for Business, for any/all Office 365 tenants, may provide cause for concern. Users may be challenged to correctly implement a governance plan built around SharePoint document libraries and lists should they neglect to move […]
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 […]
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 […]
InfoPath 2013 Will Be the Last Desktop Client for this Application, What are Businesses in Need of a No-Code Forms Engine for On Premises Systems to Do?
On February 5, 2014, Gayan Peiris, a Microsoft(R) SharePoint Technology Specialist based in Australia published a very short post to MSDN’s SharePoint Blog. The title of the post is “Update on InfoPath and SharePoint Forms”. The one sentence in the post sure to be “heard round the world” reads as follows: “In an effort to […]
The Dark Side of SharePoint Adoption Campaigns
SharePoint-Videos.com hosted a webinar titled “Conquer the Chaos Of SharePoint End User Support” on Thursday, February 6, 2014. Over 200 people attended this hour long presentation by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT. Some of the questions submitted by attendees presented the familiar problems often accompanying the dark side of SharePoint adoptions. So it makes […]