Happy Holidays everyone! 2011 is just around the corner, and to celebrate the season I will be taking a few days off. I hope that you are able to spend with your friends and families as well. Both Daily and I will be back on January 3rd, rested and ready to kick off a new year. Until then, eat too many cookies and drink some egg nog for me and I’ll see you in the new year.
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Microsoft’s Biggest 2010 Missteps (PCWorld)
Compared to the turbulent 2009 that saw Microsoft’s first widespread layoffs and its worst quarterly revenue earnings ever, 2010 was smooth sailing. But anything short of death would be smooth sailing compared to 2009. 2010 was still a year of highs and lows for the software giant. The big wins were in gaming with the release of Nintendo Wii competitor Kinect, Microsoft’s motion technology that sold 2.5 million units in its first month. Windows 7 adoption also remained steady, as Windows XP-weary enterprises began buying new PCs and migrating existing ones to Windows 7. Continue reading this entry »
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A Culture of Collaboration (Seattle PI)
In my last post I wrote about collaboration as one of the essential elements in order to thrive in the knowledge economy. Though most companies boast of their own collaborative workplace environment, all too often this is more of a public relations talking point rather than an internal employee reality. Changing the corporate culture from one that is competitive to collaborative is a huge challenge. To be meaningful, it needs to be fully embraced and articulated by the entire management team, and implemented throughout all departments. Continue reading this entry »
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Oracle Cloud Office Takes Aim At Microsoft, Google (InformationWeek)
Oracle squarely took aim at rivals Microsoft and Google with its introduction on Wednesday of a cloud-based suite of business applications. Oracle Cloud Office — like Google Docs and Microsoft’s Docs.com and Office 365 — is a Web-based productivity suite, featuring word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and drawing software. The software is based on technology Oracle received as part of its acquisition of Sun in January. Continue reading this entry »
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It’s Time to Take the Real SharePoint Challenge (CMSWire)
Before I begin, I promise that you won’t have to trudge through a few paragraphs of marketing jargon to get to my point. I realize the title is very salesy. It’s that way on purpose because I believe there to be some credence to this mantra. The only downside to this challenge is that unlike Purina, you will not be receiving a free bag of dog food or a credit to your software assurance agreement if you’re unhappy. Continue reading this entry »
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Benchmark Test Results Show SharePoint Ready For Enterprise Content Management Scale (ECM Connection)
StorSimple announced that Microsoft has released results of a benchmark test that demonstrates how SharePoint 2010 can scale to one terabyte. A new whitepaper on SQL Server RBS with SharePoint 2010 and StorSimple shows the results of managing a one terabyte SharePoint content database against workloads that represent real-world scenarios. These scenarios were divided into 3 categories – (i) Upload, (ii) Full Transaction Mix and (iii) Backup/Restore, Migration and Search Crawl. The results showed dramatic performance improvements with a 98 percent reduction in backup and restore times, and a 75 percent reduction in index rebuild times. Continue reading this entry »
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I’ll Tell You Something About Microsoft (BetaNews)
The year 2011 will be make or break. Early year, make or break will be one of perception, whether or not customers and shareholders see the glass as half full or half empty. From the half-full perspective, Microsoft has bet big on the cloud, and at the right time. From the half-empty viewpoint, Microsoft muffed mobile, by first fumbling smartphones and later tablets. The company started pushing the latter category a decade ago, only to lose it to Apple during 2010. Continue reading this entry »
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Implementing SharePoint MySites: A Project in Itself (CMSWire)
During the planning stages of many SharePoint Intranet projects, the topic of profile pages will invariably come up. SharePoint offers a feature called MySites and every organization seems to want to implement it from the get go. But it’s not that simple, or that smart. Making the Intranet Personal: MySites, much improved in SharePoint 2010, give users their own ‘corner of the Intranet’. They can use it to store files, track colleagues, display profile information and post status updates. Users will often refer to the feature as ‘a bit like Facebook’. This is a dangerous analogy but that is for another article. Continue reading this entry »
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Jed Cawthorne on the Ghosts of SharePoint: Past, Present and Future (CMSWire)
Whether you love it, or loathe it, you simply can’t escape the content management and collaboration behemoth that is Microsoft’s SharePoint family. We know the MOSS 2007 incarnation was a huge success for Microsoft based on the massive number of licenses deployed. Whether you judge it a successful product from an enterprise or users perspective, or not, SharePoint is pretty much an industry unto itself. From local user groups, to international conferences, from books to blogs, not to mention the occasional presentation or article by people like me, SharePoint was everywhere in 2010. And it will continue to be in 2011. Continue reading this entry »
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The Traditional BA Role is Dead, Long Live the SharePoint Consultant (CMSWire)
Already have your technology selected? Then doesn’t it make sense that your BA have good working knowledge of it, making the transition from requirements development to design smoother? The Business Analyst Role is Changing: Due to the increasing expense and complexity of modern content management systems, organizations often make strategic decisions to use a single software platform throughout their business operations. A platform may be selected by one group, and then expected to be reused in various systems by means of separately ran projects. It may not be ideal, but very often a new website, or intranet, will have a technology solution in place way before the requirements stage has been completed, or even considered. Continue reading this entry »
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