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Microsoft Planning BPOS Changes in March (Redmond Channel Partner)
Microsoft described some progress behind its business productivity online suite (BPOS) offerings on Thursday. The company launched its BPOS suite of online services worldwide in April and currently has more than two million paid seats, according to Kayvaan Ghassemieh, a senior technical product manager for Microsoft Online Services. Continue reading this entry »
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Suggestions for Those Considering SharePoint 2010 (IT Business Edge)
Microsoft SharePoint upgrades are on the minds of at least some technology executives, as can be seen from my discussion with Hans Keller, senior director of IT operations for Erickson Living. The 11,000-employee company, which manages 19 retirement communities, uses SharePoint 2003 for its intranet, is running a few test instances of SharePoint 2007 and plans to move to SharePoint 2010 to use it as the primary interface into its business intelligence reporting engine. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint 2010: Microsoft’s Thomas Rizzo Talks Details (Windows IT Pro)
Thomas Rizzo, senior director of SharePoint at Microsoft, took some time to talk about what’s new and what’s coming for SharePoint 2010 with SharePointPro Connections executive editor Sheila Molnar and her colleague Michael Otey, technical director for Windows IT Pro. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft Ties SharePoint into Application-virtualization Play (The Register)
Microsoft’s application virtualization software – App-V – has been updated to fully support the up-coming next edition of Office. On Monday, the company delivered App-V 4.6, the first release of its application virtualization software engineered – it claimed – to work closely with Office. App-V is a component of Microsoft’s Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). Continue reading this entry »
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Google Apps Turns 3 as It Fends Off Microsoft, IBM in the Cloud (eWeek)
Google finds itself in a daunting position on Feb. 22, the third birthday of Google Apps Premier Edition. The company is trying to dislodge legacy on-premises installations from Microsoft and IBM while fighting off SAAS solutions from those same companies. It also has to compete with new cloud offerings from Cisco Systems, as well as from a slew of startups such as Zoho, Mindtouch and others. But Google, Microsoft and IBM will be the main protagonists in the battle for pre-eminence in the market for cloud, or Web-based, collaboration software. Continue reading this entry »
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How Document Management Has Evolved in SharePoint 2010 (CMS Wire)
It’s always useful to get some kind of insight into the thinking behind the development of features in new software, particularly when it comes to SharePoint 2010. In a recent entry on the Microsoft Enterprise Content Management Team Blog, Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, explains how new features in SharePoint 2010 build on SharePoint 2007 and what we might expect in the future. Continue reading this entry »
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Windows Phone 7 Spotlights SharePoint Collaboration (PCWorld)
An application that many users have never seen–Microsoft’s SharePoint–plays a key role in Windows Phone 7 Series’ Office Hub, the center of business activities in the new smartphone operating system. On a phone with rich social networking features, adding business collaboration through SharePoint seems only natural, if not obvious. Microsoft, however, might not be alone in offering this capability. Continue reading this entry »
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Hosted SharePoint: The Next SaaS Commodity? (MSPmentor)
When RackSpace recently announced plans to offer hosted Microsoft SharePoint, it signaled both an opportunity and a warning sign for managed services providers. Is hosted SharePoint the next commodity SaaS service. Yes and no. Here’s why. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint, Be My Valentine: From a Glorified Network Share to an Enterprise Platform (CMS Wire)
How did you celebrate Valentine’s Day? Red roses? Fancy dinner? Perhaps, a romantic movie date? I spent mine with family and SharePoint friends over dim sum (coincidentally it’s also Lunar New Year’s day too!). As I was reminiscing how the relationship I have with my wife has blossomed through the years, it dawned on me that it mirrors how SharePoint should evolve in enterprises today. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint Upgrades on IT Executives’ Agendas (IT Business Edge)
Like many IT executives, Hans Keller, senior director of IT operations for Erickson Living, is planning a move from an older version of Microsoft SharePoint to a newer one to gain new capabilities. In Erickson’s case, the plan is to upgrade from an existing SharePoint 2003 implementation to SharePoint 2010 so SharePoint becomes the primary interface into the company’s business intelligence reporting engine. Keller’s team of 75 provides IT services for Erickson’s 11,000 employees and residents of its 19 retirement communities. Keller, who will attend the IT Business Edge MidMarket CIO Forum in Orlando in March, shared his opinions on SharePoint’s strengths and weaknesses with Ann All. Continue reading this entry »
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