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Blog posts about SharePoint 2010

Apoorv Durga

Multiple Portals or One Single Portal?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Apr-2012

In the good old days, when your firm's Enterprise Portal was a "gateway to the world," the thinking was that you needed to standardize on one single Portal platform, and perhaps even on single enterprise portal instance.

However, as we all know, that's not really very practical (both for technical and organizational reasons), and multiple portal platforms have always proliferated within organizations ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Should you go with a Portal or Web CMS?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Apr-2012

This is the most common question that my colleagues and I encounter from our customers who are in the process of evaluating options for building a web property.

The reason is not difficult to find. ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Major Collaboration and Social Platforms Are Coming Up Short

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2012

We've just released a major update (Version 4.0) to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report, which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Our subscribers will see several new vendors under review as well as an overhauled set of evaluation criteria ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Lexmark and the marriage of ECM and DOM

Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Nov-2011

Perceptive Software, which was acquired by Lexmark a while back, has announced a new product for Document Output Management (DOM) called ModusOne. It is a separate product that can work with or without ImageNow, Perceptive's Document Management tool that we evaluate in our Document Management Report ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

Tony Byrne

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employees understand as their "intranet" -- updates from corporate communications, some HR forms, and a mountain of outdated docs -- is increasingly irrelevant ...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

Jarrod Gingras

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

Shawn Shell

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

Shawn Shell

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

From Vignette to Microsoft - Web Content Management Orthodoxy

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Oct-2011

Below is an excerpt from an interview I had with with Australian journalist David Walker. I thought it worth re-publishing here too. In a wide ranging chat undertaken whilst I was grumpy and jetlagged we discussed amongst other things Interwoven (now Autonomy soon to be HP), Vignette (OpenText), and Microsoft ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

Shawn Shell

SharePoint Licensing Mysticism Explained

Added By Shawn Shell on 25-Aug-2011

While SharePoint has been on the market since 2001, customers still get quite confused by Microsoft's licensing schemes.  When I speak at conferences, I'm commonly asked about how to license SharePoint.  Questions like "what can I expect to pay for SharePoint licenses" or "what specific licenses to I have to buy" are frequent topics of discussion ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

SharePoint 2010 SP1 Disappointment

Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jun-2011

By now you know that Microsoft SharePoint has a 3-year development cycle. Three years is not a long time for highly process-oriented functionality, like many types of document management applications. However, a long development cycle is a significant shortcoming in areas like Collaboration/Social and Web Content Management, where Redmond's circa-2009 codebase feels increasingly out of step ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The ECM skills shortage continues

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

It's a discussion that reoccurs regularly enough with Real Story Group Document Management (ECM) subscribers -- how do I get skilled ECM staff? It's a tough question to answer ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Capture plus workflow equals ECM?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2011

Capture + workflow = ECM.

It's a simple formula that works most of the time in enterprise environments. It works for the simple reason that most electronic documents that require organizational attention typically are captured and proceed down a structured workflow ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Using Google for Lucene

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Apr-2011

As I've noted on this blog many times before, a lot of Google Search Appliance's "features" are actually outside-of-the-box, rather than out-of-the-box. That can present an unpleasant surprise to many Google customers. But ironically, it's also a great advantage to anyone who wants to use ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

The Latest on SharePoint as a Social and Collaboration Platform

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Mar-2011

"How good is SharePoint as an Enterprise 2.0 platform?" People ask us that question a lot ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SharePoint leadership starts with a SharePoint strategy

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Feb-2011

On the 28th and 29th March, my colleague Jarrod Gingras and I will be hosting the inaugural SharePoint Strategy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Adding Google to SharePoint

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Feb-2011

One of the questions I hear time and again is: "We're running SharePoint. Should we get a Google Appliance for search?" This was the case with SharePoint 2007, and it hasn't changed with 2010 ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Oracle goes its own way with ECM Suite 11g

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Dec-2010

Just as Microsoft has its own very distinctive approach and definition for ECM, so too does Oracle. In fact as time goes on, Oracle's approach to ECM is becoming more individual and distinctive ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SharePoint maturing into 2011?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Nov-2010

Last week I helped my colleague Tony Byrne host the SharePoint Symposium in Washington DC. We ran many of sessions there and had a good turnout at each, hardly surprising of course as SharePoint remains a very hot topic ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Transactional Document Management - The core of ECM

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Nov-2010

"Transactional document management" is a term not used often enough in my opinion. For it is, as the phrase goes, the "meat and potatoes" of ECM ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

SharePoint Symposium Preview - Ecosystem Webinar

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Oct-2010

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 boasts an extraordinarily large and quite diverse "ecosystem" of consultants, integrators, and add-on software vendors. For customers, though, this landscape can be very confusing ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

SharePoint's FAST 2010 is not as cheap as you might think

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Aug-2010

However, make no mistake: FAST may be a lot less expensive, but it's certainly not going to come cheap. Not in the least bit because implementing it right will still be an expert's job. ... Continue Reading

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