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For October, 2011

Oct 31

Building a ‘How To’ Intranet; Kinect for the Office?; Google in the Enterprise

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoMicrosoft may have been voted the Best Place to work but I think Bamboo could challenge them for first place.  - Dooley

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5 Steps to Build a ‘How To’ Intranet (CMSWire)
A recent poll we conducted showed that employees want more how-to content on intranets. But how do you design an intranet that puts “how to” content at the center of your strategy? Having been involved in a project to implement a task-based intranet using SharePoint, I’d recommend the following five step approach: Continue reading this entry »

Oct 28

Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Adoption/Migration; More Windows 8 Tablets; How Is Office 365 Really Doing?

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoI keep forgetting that Monday is Halloween. Maybe I should get some candy over the weekend…   – Dooley

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Forrester’s Survey on Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Adoption and Migration (CMSWire)
At the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim California, Rob Koplowitz, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, shared the results of the Forrester survey on “Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Adoption and Migration.” The crowd was near capacity, and full of questions about the various data points, and some of Forrester’s qualitative input. The following is a synopsis of the session, with some of my own feedback on the numbers from their survey of just under 1,000 SharePoint 2010 customers, the Forrester interpretation of the data, and my thoughts on where there may be room for additional research and investigation. Continue reading this entry »
Oct 27

SharePoint ISVs Focus on Workflow & Analytics; No US Nokia Windows Phones Until 2012; Firefox Gets Bing-ed

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SharePoint Daily LogoBamboo is attending SharePoint Symposium in DC next week. Are you?   – Dooley

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SharePoint 2010 Collaboration ISVs Focus on Workflow, Analytics (SearchContentManagement)
With 125 million licenses sold, Microsoft’s SharePoint is the market leader for enterprise collaboration, but it doesn’t solve every business problem for every user. Instead, many SharePoint 2010 collaboration platform users rely on a host of independent software vendors (ISVs) to handle what SharePoint can’t. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 26

Sins of SharePoint in the Enterprise; Office 365 Beta for BlackBerry; Microsoft Shifts Dynamics CRM to Social

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoYou can patent placing a finger on your phone and moving it to the side? Seriously???  – Dooley

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The 5 Deadly Sins of SharePoint in the Enterprise (CMSWire)
SharePoint recently turned 10-years-old and is now arguably among the most successful software platforms ever in terms of sales and installations. The newest version marks the latest of three major revisions. There is almost universal agreement that the SharePoint 2010 platform is vastly improved from a technology perspective when compared to its predecessors. Yet, despite all of the successes, most organizations are using only a fraction of the product’s capabilities. Frustration abounds as IT and business users grapple to extend more robust functionality throughout the enterprise. Continue reading this entry »
Oct 25

SharePoint 2010 Planning; Difficult Public Folder Migration to Office 365; Windows 8 to Increase PC Costs

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SharePoint Daily LogoI love Halloween and wish I had the time to do something like this to my house. Then again, I can only imagine the letters I would get from my HOA.  – Dooley

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SharePoint 2010 Planning and Adoption Framework (CMSWire)
Day two of the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim (held October 3-6, 2011) and around 300 people packed into the room to listen to Todd Ray, a Senior Business Strategy Consultant within Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Services. As part of this group’s Enterprise Strategy Program, Todd works with Microsoft’s enterprise architect community to implement Microsoft’s Value Realization Framework. The demand for this session was so high that people were turned away at the doors, and this was one of only a handful of sessions that had to be run a second time. Expectations were high… Continue reading this entry »
Oct 24

Governance – What It is & What It Isn’t; Time to Enterprise the App Store; Will the Cloud Change Programming?

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoThree weeks ago, Bamboo was in Anaheim with our guest Waffles the Panda. This week a World of Warcraft expansion was announced in Anaheim that focuses on pandas. Coincidence?  – Dooley

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The Art of SharePoint Success: Governance – What It is & What It Isn’t (CMSWire)
This month I am writing from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim where governance is a recurring theme. I’ve only been to a few sessions so far (I am writing on day 1 of the conference), but governance has been mentioned in every session I’ve been to so far. In the keynote, Jeff Teper claimed, “Governance is not an issue… we have lots of customers doing it on a large scale.” Good, so that’s all sorted then! Continue reading this entry »

Oct 21

SharePoint 2010 Deployments Increasing; Microsoft Q1 Sales Beat Estimates; Building a Mobile Enterprise

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoWhat do you think? Should Bing give up due to the new search engine from MC Hammer?  :-)  Have a great weekend everyone.  – Dooley

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OpenText Global 360 SharePoint Survey: 2010 Deployments Increasing, Strategies Lacking (CMSWire)
Global 360 has done another SharePoint in the Enterprise survey and the results are on track with what’s being said at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim this week: SharePoint 2010 deployments are increasing. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 20

SharePoint 2010 Adoption Planning; Getting Started with the Azure Cloud; Technology Trends for 2012

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoI got nuthin’ today. Maybe tomorrow my brain will be working again.  – Dooley

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SharePoint 2010 Adoption Planning (CMSWire)
At the European SharePoint Conference currently being held at the Estrel Convention Center in Berlin, Germany, I attended Matt Berg’s presentation entitled “Drive Adoption and Get Users Excited about SharePoint 2010.” For those who are not familiar with Matt, he is a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the Microsoft SharePoint team in Redmond, WA, and was one of the primary forces behind the SharePoint Conference held in Anaheim, CA earlier this month. In his role, he has a well-placed view into customers deploying SharePoint and partners augmenting their solutions, and I wanted to hear his perspective on one of the most important aspects of a successful SharePoint deployment: end-user adoption. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 19

The Social Intranet is Still Rare; SharePoint Marketshare Numbers; Is the Cloud Broken?

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoGina, Jeff, Jeremy and Wes say ”Hallo” from the European SharePoint Conference. Stop by the Bamboo booth to preview the latest features of Community Central, PMC and Workflow Conductor.  – Dooley

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Despite SharePoint’s Success, The Social Intranet is Still Rare (CMSWire)
Microsoft’s takeover of the corporate intranet has been rapid, and nearly overwhelming. Nearly two-thirds of all organizations (all except the very smallest) in the Western World use SharePoint, in some shape or form (according to multiple surveys). Despite its most unimpressive start and growth as a second-tier technology just a few years ago – lagging well-behind IBM’s Websphere and other commercial portal and CMS technologies – SharePoint has become the leader of the pack, powering more intranets than any other solution. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 18

What is the Future for SharePoint Mobile?; Windows Intune Beta Ending; HTML5 Will Change Mobile BI

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoI haven’t heard from our team at the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin. Maybe they are all inside hiding from the latest satellite that is about to fall back to Earth.  – Dooley

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SharePoint’s Mobile Picture Remains Murky for Now (Fierce ContentManagement)
I spent time at the SharePoint Conference this week and after listening to the keynote on Monday morning, I noticed the conspicuous absence of any mobile discussion whatsoever. There was a lot of talk about the cloud, but none–and I mean zip, zero, bubkes–about mobile and how it can bring together the cloud and social aspects Microsoft  was clearly emphasizing throughout the keynote. This was particularly curious for a number of reasons. First of all, you couldn’t go anywhere in the wake of Microsoft’s Build Conference last month without hearing about Windows 8 and Metro, the new programming language based on the Windows Phone 7 tile interface. Continue reading this entry »

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