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How to Determine the True Cost of Microsoft SharePoint (ComputerWorld)
SharePoint has unquestionably garnered a lot of attention from business users and IT. Toby Bell, Gartner Inc.’s research vice president, calls SharePoint 2007 “nothing short of a phenomenon.” He says the growing number of searches for SharePoint on Gartner.com indicates high interest in the product and some confusion about its value. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint Director Remains Bloodied but Unbowed (Fierce Content Management)
This week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, I met with Christian Finn, director of SharePoint, the often-maligned content management tool from Microsoft. For all the criticism, Microsoft claims 100 million licenses, but even if that number is exaggerated, they have a lot of people using the SharePoint product. Finn admits the product isn’t perfect, but he believes it stands up, in many instances, to just about anyone out there, and in cases where it doesn’t, third party partners fill in the gaps. He used the word “coopetition” a couple of times to describe companies that might compete with SharePoint on some level, yet still provide ways to use their products inside of SharePoint. Continue reading this entry »
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Balancing SharePoint Governance (Search Win IT)
Think of SharePoint Server as plastic. If you have a vision for what you want SharePoint to become and you carefully define that mold based on features in the product, then you can mold SharePoint into virtually anything you want. But what happens if you don’t have a mold? It turns into goo. Continue reading this entry »
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Book Review: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out (IT Wire)
Despite the seeming ubiquity of SharePoint Server its administration and maintenance can, at times, be cryptic and seemingly impenetrable. This Microsoft Press book gives a deep explanation of how to master the beast. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft SharePoint vs. Enterprise 2.0 Start-ups (Computer World)
This week represents an important inflection point for the Enterprise 2.0 market, a set of software vendors that sell social networking technologies to businesses. Analysts say the number of competitors will consolidate in the coming year as Microsoft captures greater market share. The start-ups that will survive must carve out a longterm place for themselves by building applications that are far more innovative and cheaper than those of the incumbent software giant. In addition, they must convince businesses that Microsoft SharePoint’s “good enough” strategy is not, in fact, good enough for today’s enterprise collaboration needs. Continue reading this entry »
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Can Your SharePoint Backup Harm Your Business? (Information Management)
The native SharePoint tools for backup under SharePoint 2007 are a major step forward over the 2003 edition. There still are major issues in the areas of granularity, performance, fidelity and usability. By using just the native tools, organizations will still be exposed to the risk of losing or damaging critical business information. This white paper is intended for IT professionals who are responsible for helping companies evaluate, plan and execute data backups for SharePoint. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint Training on a Kindle (Windows IT Pro)
Since it was first created, SharePoint has evolved from a basic product to its own product segment. SharePoint is used for company intranets as well as customer-facing websites; internal document collaboration and external partner networks; a basic management interface or an all-out project management system. Given its versatility and complexity, we’ve seen a host of new products come out to add onto or simplify SharePoint, as well as a huge boon in industry coverage and training on SharePoint. Continue reading this entry »
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Wave vs. SharePoint: Big Splash or Tiny Ripple? (IT Business Edge)
Google isn’t saying Wave will compete with SharePoint – but then again, it doesn’t have to. After seeing Wave’s potential for document collaboration and a well-placed comment about how Wave’s openness is lacking in SharePoint, and the comparisons came naturally. Continue reading this entry »
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Ballmer to Keynote SharePoint Conference 2009, Exploring Windows 7 Versions, Windows on a USB Drive?
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Steve Ballmer to Keynote SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Conference)
Steve Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation. Ballmer is focused on continuing Microsoft’s innovation and leadership across the company’s core businesses to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services. Variously described as ebullient, focused, funny, passionate, sincere, hard-charging and dynamic, Ballmer has infused Microsoft with his own brand of energetic leadership, vision and spirit over the years. Continue reading this entry »