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Evaluating SharePoint blog posts

Tony Byrne

Exclusive Sneak Peak at SharePoint 2016

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2013

Well, RSG was granted a special pre-pre-brief into SharePoint 2016.  The results may surprise you. ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Digital Workplace Trends 2013 now available

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Feb-2013

Every so often, though, it is important to take a step back from the details and look at the more macro-trends that are facing today's business and technology decision-makers ... Continue Reading

Kashyap Kompella

What should you make of vendor market share leadership claims?

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 21-Feb-2013

Where's the fine print? You can creatively define a category that eliminates everyone else and preside over a parallel universe in which only you reside. ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Just How Good is Web CMS in SharePoint 2013?

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2013

In both the 2007 and 2010 SharePoint releases, Microsoft heavily touted its web content and experience management (WCXM) improvements, typically referring to them as state-of-the-art. In reality, basic WCXM capabilities were "shoehorned" into SharePoint’s document-collaboration framework.

Ultimately, this meant that WCXM in SharePoint has never proven as functional, elegant, or cost-effective as ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Can you use your CMS or DAM on your mobile device?

Added By Theresa Regli on 31-Jan-2013

I had made the case that mobile-enabled user interfaces for content management systems -- ones that allow you to pull up a content management system on a mobile device to maintain your web site, documents, or other digital assets -- was a very real and current way of managing content. My fellow panelist, however, thought no one was going to be bothered managing enterprise content on their mobile device ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How Did Our Predictions Fare in 2012?

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Dec-2012

Every year we make predictions about the coming annum, and every year, we go back and see how our predictions actually fared. See, for example, our assessment of our 2011 predictions.

Below I'll evaluate how our 2012 predictions (from December, 2011) held up ... Continue Reading

Irina Guseva

How to handle product demos gone wrong

Added By Irina Guseva on 7-Dec-2012

If you're undertaking a selection of a WCXM or a DAM system, or any other piece of enterprise technology for that matter, you'll want to see a demo, to witness first-hand all the bells and whistles ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

The Digital WorkPlace Just Is

Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2012

Yesterday Jane McConnell shared a nice tidbit from her (excellent) survey of global intranet managers, that "40% of large enterprises believe in the digital workplace."

I believe this is great progress ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Twelve Predictions for 2013

Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Dec-2012

Each year around this time, all the Real Story Group analysts get together to partake in some crystal-ball gazing about where the content technology market will head in the next year.

Here are our collective predictions for 2013: ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Webinar - The Right Knowledge Management Technologies for 2013

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Nov-2012

Identifying and selecting the right KM tools can prove a decisive factor in your success ... Continue Reading

Shawn Shell

SharePoint Conference in Perspective - What to Make of the Changes in SP2013?

Added By Shawn Shell on 30-Nov-2012

RSG advisory customers know that each new version of any technology platform carries both the promise of a better world and the agony of the upgrade.  SharePoint 2013 is no exception ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

What Are Your Big Challenges for 2013?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 21-Nov-2012

This is the time of year when we start to look back and reflect on the past twelve months and begin to look forward to what's next. As some you know, in addition to our premium research and associated advisory sessions, some of our subscribers ask us to assist them in a more hands-on consultative engagement ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Who's buying your analyst's dinner?

Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Nov-2012

The whole affaire, as well as a recent request I received from a Digital Asset Management vendor, reminded me that the world of technology analysis is no less shifty -- it's just that the attempted manipulation of the system for personal and business gain is of a different nature ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

When Your Boss Says Cloud-First

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Nov-2012

There's a growing misconception that cloud is an end in itself, rather than a means to end. That never bodes well ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Selecting a cloud file sharing vendor without IT participation is never a good idea

Added By Apoorv Durga on 29-Oct-2012

Many cloud-based services, including file-sharing platforms, allow business units to provision an accounts themselves and get started right away. This gives a impression that IT involvement is not required, and some vendors even encourage you to bypass your enterprise technology teams. This approach can suffice initially, but with time, various problems typically emerge ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Three October Seminars in Washington D.C.

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 1-Oct-2012

In just two weeks my colleagues Tony Byrne, Apoorv Durga, Matt Mullen, and I will be gathering in Washington D.C. to share some of our latest research findings at three special events held in conjunction with the annual KM World conference. We're looking forward to meeting with many of you ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Using mobile apps from incumbent vendors Vs. Developing your own

Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Sep-2012

Organizations seeking to enable employees to access enterprise applications (HR, Intranet, Collaboration, ERP, etc.) via mobile devices must grapple with two broad alternatives: ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Are you ready for some conferences?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Sep-2012

For fans of content technologies (I know you are out there!) this time of year also marks the start of the 2012 autumn conference season. We love this time of year as it is our chance to reveal our latest research findings and meet you face-to-face ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Major update to our SharePoint Evaluation research

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 27-Aug-2012

As always, we focus on what you can purchase and deploy today, so we take a hard look at SharePoint 2010 from the vantage point of several different use-cases, including Portal, Web Content Management, Search, DAM, Document & Records Management, and of course, Social Collaboration.

We've also added a couple of brand new chapters: ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Is SharePoint in the Cloud right for you?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 17-Aug-2012

Not surprisingly, SharePoint Online shares many of the merits and demerits of its on-premise cousin -- but with some special twists and quirks related to converting such a humongous platform to a hosted environment ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

SharePoint 2013 is really SharePoint 2015

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Jul-2012

If SharePoint is important to your organization and you want to do it right, this schedule has you migrating in Q1/2014 at the earliest. Most of you will not migrate until 2015 ... Continue Reading

Shawn Shell

SharePoint 2013 and the New Blue

Added By Shawn Shell on 18-Jul-2012

Lest you get caught up in the excitement (or the confusion), step back. It will be months before the products are ready for prime time. It will be even longer before the best practices are discovered, documented, tested and rewritten ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Introducing the Custom ShortList Builder

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 18-Jul-2012

As our subscribers know, our research is designed to help reduce the risk of making the wrong technology decisions. That requires depth; if you're making a big investment, the details matter. If there's downside though, it is that our research evaluations can run rather long ... Continue Reading

Matt Mullen

Should Sharepoint customers be Recommind-ed to look beyond FAST ?

Added By Matt Mullen on 19-Jun-2012

Enterprise search vendor Recommind today announced a new SharePoint specific module for their Decisiv Search product, called "Content Delivery for SharePoint". On the face of it, the features seem sensible enough -- allowing federation of external sources to be searched for and displayed within SharePoint Web Parts -- but still could leave customers thinking, "Hang on, isn't that what Microsoft bought FAST to bring to SharePoint?" ... Continue Reading

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