As popular as
SharePoint has become over the past few years, many IT professionals are still grappling with the optimal way to deploy and manage it. To help shed some light on the topic of SharePoint deployment, I sat down with two SharePoint experts earlier this week at
TechEd 2010: Quest Software Solutions Architect Curtis Kelly (photo, left) and Senior SharePoint Architect Joel Oleson.
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The educational market has long been a province of Microsoft and its hardware partners, driven mainly by lower costs and the huge ecosystem of educational vendors that use Microsoft Windows as their platform of choice. That has begun to gradually change over the last few years, with Google beginning to make inroads against the long-established dominance of Microsoft's Office suite in the educational system. One of the largest recent Google wins has been the Oregon State Department of Education...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The past year or so IBM has been promoting the concept of "Agile ECM" in its marketing for FileNet P8. It is an interesting concept both at a marketing and implementation level regardless of whether P8 itself really fits such a label itself.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Organizations are cognizant of the benefits of enterprise content management (ECM), but the number of compromises an organization likely will have to make to implement ECM can be daunting, according to Gartner, Inc. Picking the correct business focus is the most important first step to successful content management and information governance.
“ECM is expensive, which is why a low percentage of knowledge workers in an organization have access to ECM,” said Toby Bell, research vice presid...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Watching the technology trends these days makes me sing the Old MacDonald song: “Here a cloud, there a cloud, everywhere a cloud cloud.” Like Old MacDonald keeping track of his farm assets, every IT decision maker seems to be assessing which IT assets might be able to roost in the cloud as a way to save capital and operational expenses.
Although in its early stage cloud computing i...
With the recent release of
SharePoint 2010 and the booming popularity of SharePoint as the leading document sharing and collaboration platform for enterprises, I suppose it was inevitable that a number of SharePoint-savvy iPhone apps would hit the market. The
iPhone continues to make inroads in the enterprise, and that increasing adoption has ...
Monday, September 28, 2009
Enterprise content management has traditionally been very expensive to license, roll out and scale. It often requires expensive hardware and supporting software. The enterprise content management industry has been dependent on complexity, with the vendor controlling the customer through proprietary power. But there is a cost-effective alternative: open-source software. Web 2.0 sites have changed the way in which content is both accessed and mashed up. Here, Knowledge Center contributor John Ne...
With the release of SharePoint 2010 less than a week away, Microsoft's Forefront team recently announced via their
team blog the availability of Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP). This new release bolsters SharePoint security by giving admins fine-grained control over what users can (and cannot) upload to SharePoint.
According to Microsoft Seni...