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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Any Successful Adoption Program for SharePoint 2013 Must Include a User Friendly Query Feature for Site Search
Managed properties for the search service of SharePoint Server 2013 do not conform to fuzzy logic. This is potentially a very serious limitation for SharePoint stakeholders determined to prod end users to adopt the computing platform. Ostensibly, the advanced search box feature of the query component of the SharePoint 2013 search service can help end […]