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SharePoint Security Features
Security is one of the top priorities of corporations around the world, and while the digital age has made it easier in many respects, it has also opened up a can of worms, in terms of threats, data loss, and system vulnerability. SharePoint is a case in point: because each deployment is unique, optimal security can be… Read More
5 Tips for Creating Your SharePoint Governance Policy
We’ve been taking a look at some of the most common obstaclesto SharePoint implementation. Next in line is governance, which IT identified as their most pressing concern in the 2011 Global 360 SharePoint survey. Boiled down to its basics, governance is the set of guidelines a company will follow when using SharePoint. These are the rules, procedures,… Read More
7 Steps to Better SharePoint Adoption
In our last post, we talked about the most common obstacles facing the millions of businesses around the world who are implementing SharePoint. According to the 2011 Global 360 SharePoint survey, development time and effort for building business applications was a top concern, closely followed and tied to user adoption. User adoption has been identified as the single most… Read More
The Most Challenging Aspects of SharePoint Implementation: Development Time
The Global 360 SharePoint survey for 2011 returned some interesting facts and figures for businesses to chew on. Forty-four of the corporations surveyed own and use SharePoint, compared with just four percent in 2003. Despite the incredible adoption rate among medium- and large-size businesses, many experience difficulties related to implementation. The survey identified the top four concerns… Read More
7 Steps to Creating a Master Page with SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Designer is a web and application design program that provides “no-code solutions” for business processes. It is often used to create and manage data sources, create and view forms, and create custom workflows to manage business processes. It also allows for customization so you can achieve a look and feel that reflects your corporate brand… Read More
SharePoint: Junior Consultant vs. Senior Consultant
The difference between a junior and a senior consultant used to be in the amount of years he or she had put into the job. That’s no longer the case, especially in the technology and digital fields. A junior SharePoint consultant doesn’t graduate to senior level just because he’s spent five years, ten years on SharePoint projects…. Read More
InfoPath: 5 Tips for Creating User Friendly Forms
How do you process an expense report? Here’s one way: create a spreadsheet in Excel with the expense information. Print it out, hand it over to payroll. Payroll processes it with a line of business applications, and finally, the information is stored. Here’s another way: you create the form with InfoPath and store it. Sounds better,… Read More
Can SharePoint Be Social?
Information Week’s David F. Carr writes, “SharePoint’s roots are decidedly pre-Web, stemming from the era of discrete Office documents and network file shares, not the age of Web-based Facebook walls, Twitter feeds, and blog comment streams.” Many believe that while SharePoint has improved, it still does not handle social integration well. This is a problem because… Read More
Four Business Problems SharePoint Can Address
Chris Capossela, a Microsoft senior vice president, says, “We don’t claim we do everything. If we do 50 percent of the functions that these other companies do, but they’re the ones customers really want, that’s fine. The magic is that end users actually like to use the software.” While there are critics who love to… Read More
What is Data Analytics?
Most businesses and corporations produce incredible volumes of data; and that data does not do a bit of good unless it is managed in such a way that an end-user can access, update, integrate, and synthesize it into something usable. It is like clay; a sculptor can’t turn a lump of rock hard, dry clay… Read More
Using Office 365 and Microsoft Project for Project Management
Whether you own a business that employs ten or you are on a project management team of a corporation that employees tens of thousands, a reliable, powerful project management information system is a must. An efficient PMIS helps with every aspect of a project, from planning and communication to expectations and reporting, and helps ensure… Read More
Conquering Inertia: A Program Project Manager’s Most Important Task
To quote Tony Soprano, “A wrong decision is better than indecision.” Granted, our decisions tend to be pretty different, but as a businessman, he’s absolutely right. Indecision is, as your grandmother may have warned you, its own decision. Failing to act is acting – you just have no control over either the process or the outcome. It… Read More