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Digital workplace and enterprise architecture -- two sides to same coin

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Mar-2012

A confluence of trends is elevating the concept of the "Digital Workplace." Much of the current discussion has centered around what a digital workplace mean for traditional intranets, emerging social collaboration spaces, and aging transactional systems.

Those are important topics, but I think an even bigger to-do for enterprises is to bring the right skill sets to bear. One key skill set to engage here is enterprise architecture ... Continue Reading

UK Government Cloudstore - not yet ready for prime time

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2012

The IT press here in the UK have heralded the remarkable launch of the government's G-Cloud Cloudstore. The timing was certainly impressive: In just four short weeks this online services directory and procurement application went from contract to launch.

Yet I remain a bit puzzled as to why the service has gone live at all, since ... Continue Reading

Avoid the Enterprise SharePoint Surprise

Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Feb-2012

In conversations with many of our subscribers on their SharePoint and enterprise collaboration efforts, a common theme keeps recurring: that getting SharePoint up and running is just the beginning of a long and sometimes quite expensive journey ... Continue Reading

Three lessons across ten years of content technologies

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2012

Late last year we marked our tenth year in business, which seemed like a good time to reflect on what has changed across the landscape of content, web, and collaboration technologies -- and what has not ... Continue Reading

Sharpening the dull Digital Asset Management functionality in SharePoint

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 2-Feb-2012

It is an understatement to say that Sharepoint has become a nearly ubiquitous platform for workplace collaboration. Yet, as our technology evaluation subscribers know, Sharepoint may be omnipresent but definitely not omnipotent. An enterprise cannot just survive on Sharepoint for all its unstructured content needs, since there are significant functionality gaps in the Sharepoint armor ... Continue Reading

Updated Technology Vendor Map

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2012

We've just updated our longstanding "subway map" for 2012.

Biggest changes have come around acquisitions (e.g., HP), and ... Continue Reading

Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jan-2012

We've just released an advisory paper, "Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?” ... Continue Reading

Three options for social-enabling SharePoint

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Dec-2011

SharePoint licensees seeking to deliver on the promise of social networking and more advanced collaboration applications must choose among three alternative approaches to close the gap ... Continue Reading

2012 Technology Predictions

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2011

It's that time of year for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2012 predictions, where we try to predict what the future holds in the technology world ... Continue Reading

How accurate were our 2011 predictions?

Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2011

Like all analyst firms, every year-end we make predictions. I think we're fairly unique, though, in going back to see how our earlier predictions fared. Let's see whether our predictions for 2011 actually panned out. These were the twelve predictions we made in December, 2010 ... Continue Reading

Storage Wars in the Cloud

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 17-Nov-2011

OK, I'll admit it. One of my guilty pleasures in recent years has been the American television show, Storage Wars ... Continue Reading

Is Box.Net a threat to SharePoint?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2011

We've just published an advisory paper for our ECM and SharePoint subscribers (non subscribers can purchase it here) analyzing the implications of large enterprise buyers considering Box.Net alongside Microsoft SharePoint ... Continue Reading

SharePoint exposes lack of information management commitment

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Nov-2011

Last week we ran the SharePoint Symposium in Washington DC and kicked off the two-day event with a question to the audience.  What single word best describes "SharePoint" to you?  The preponderance of negative answers thrown out surprised us ... Continue Reading

Death of the Intranet

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Nov-2011

Intranets are dead. Long live the Digital Workplace!

OK, this is partly an argument about labels, but labels matter. What most employees understand as their "intranet" -- updates from corporate communications, some HR forms, and a mountain of outdated docs -- is increasingly irrelevant ... Continue Reading

Box Playing Hardball

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 14-Oct-2011

Not long ago, many were scoffing at Box as being just another California start-up foolishly comparing themselves to the SharePoint behemoth. ... Continue Reading

Unfiltered SharePoint Advice in Washington D.C.

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-Oct-2011

On the heels of the Microsoft event, the timing of the SharePoint Symposium being held in Washington DC in just three weeks (November 2-3, 2011) could not be better. ... Continue Reading

SharePoint and cloud - ready or not...

Added By Shawn Shell on 10-Oct-2011

While SharePoint's "cloud" ambitions started many years ago, the perfect storm of Azure (another major component of this year's SharePoint conference), Office365 and improved development tools have created the fertile environment for adoption.  When Microsoft first announced cloud services like Business Productivity Online Suite and, specifically SharePoint Online, it was a way to stretch the existing SharePoint 2007 product, without the expectation of being truly successful.  It was, however, a good proving ground to enable Microsoft to learn about how SharePoint could play -- or not -- in a shared environment ... Continue Reading

Mobile-Enabling Enterprise Applications

Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Oct-2011

Once you decide to mobile-enable your enterprise information systems, the key question you need to address is whether to provide mobile access via Mobile Web (browser-based interfaces) or by offering downloadable applications ("apps").

This is a longstanding debate and proponents of both approaches will point to numerous benefits ... Continue Reading

SPC11 Wrap Up - the SharePoint freight train

Added By Shawn Shell on 7-Oct-2011

As the SharePoint conference wraps up its third day, it is as clear as ever that the platform is nothing short of a proverbial freight train.   As evidence ... Continue Reading

SharePoint Conference Day One - steady as she goes

Added By Shawn Shell on 4-Oct-2011

As an industry analyst, I get invited to "special" vendor events that provide access to selected executives and product team members. These sessions are carefully choreographed, but usually entail many useful nuggets, including a few surprises. This year's SharePoint Conference found no real surprises or big-bang announcements, but at some level this speaks to the continuing maturation of SharePoint 2010 in the marketplace ... Continue Reading

Microsoft SharePoint in 2011 - 2012: State of the Nation Webinar

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Sep-2011

Next Wednesday I will be hosting a free SharePoint-themed webinar. My intent is to look at SharePoint in 2011, its victories to date and its challenges ahead. ... Continue Reading

Opening for Technology Analyst at Real Story Group

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2011

We're hiring.  Would you like to explore joining  our top-notch team of analysts?  Read the full position details here ... Continue Reading