Tag Archives: SharePoint 2010
BT’s SharePoint 2010 Implementation
When I was the BT intranet manager I was heavily involved in the strategy, plans and implementation of SharePoint 2010 for the last 12 months I was there. It was the biggest change to BT’s intranet since it was created 15 years before. It was a ‘work in progress’ as BT migrated all its existing content from the publishing tools it is using now for accredited and collaborative content.
How to measure the value of SharePoint 2010
You have developed
a strategy (How to develop a SharePoint 2010 strategy) and built a governance framework (How to build SharePoint 2010 governance). You have got the buy-in from your senior business representatives (stakeholders) and agreed on your implementation plan that factors in the benefits and drawbacks of different approaches.
Michael Rasmussen on the “Big Data” Compliance Challenge
This is a topic many businesses are wrestling with without the full understanding of how “big data” is affecting compliance.
Is your SharePoint Platform Content-Aware?
We know Microsoft SharePoint makes it easy to create and collaborate on content. And we also know that this results in an explosion of unstructured content, ranging from email to documents to blogs; all with the intention of having a collaborative conversation. SharePoint has also become core to operations with businesses increasingly making it their enterprise content management (ECM) system of choice.
Notes from the Road: SharePoint Customer Journey
This week I’m on the road across the UK to discuss the SharePoint Customer Journey. After my first day with fellow presenters from Metalogix and KnowledgeLake, it is clear that migrating content into SharePoint is an issue. Both presenters have highlighted that it’s generally better that content is in SharePoint and the audience agreed as well. These companies come at SharePoint from two different perspectives – Metalogix to get the content into SharePoint and KnowledgeLake to find, capture, automate business processes and save content.
On the Road with SharePoint
I always wanted to be a rock and roll star.
More specific
ally, the lead man in a band with legions of followers who hung on every guitar lick and spent way too much time thinking about the lyrics I sang. I dreamed of “riding that train” with Jerry, Janis and The Band, jamming and well… Alas, personal responsibility, a lack of musical talent, and the need to eat something more than veggie burritos on Shakedown Street, killed my rock and roll dream.
Or so I thought.
How to Prevent SharePoint Mistakes
Readin
g Mathew J. Schwartz’s article in Information Week, ‘10 SharePoint Security Mistakes You Probably Make,’ there were a few items of particular interest.
- The first was on the discovery that in the case of Bradley Manning leaking 250,000 U.S. State Department cables, the forensic expert “discovered Wget scripts on Manning’s computer that pointed to a Microsoft SharePoint server holding the Gitmo documents. He ran the scripts to download the documents, then downloaded the ones that WikiLeaks had published and found they were the same, Shaver testified.” (Source: Wired, Forensic Expert: Manning’s Computer Had 10K Cables, Downloading Scripts)
Governance: A key theme for SharePoint in 2012
Governance will be a key area of investment for SharePoint in 2012. It’s currently one of the main areas the platform is lacking. Built-in tools developed by ISVs will play a major role in helping organizations be compliant with global regulations and company compliance policies. But don’t just take my word for it…
In my daily reading over the past month I’ve come across a number of predications for 2012. Predictions for movies, awards, music and sports including the New England Patriots heading to the Super Bowl; and I’ve also read a lot about how Microsoft SharePoint will continue to see high user adoption. What’s most interesting is the number of people predicting that governance will play a key part to SharePoint’s development in 2012. This is an area I’ve been talking to businesses about for years as it’s absolutely necessary for the success of SharePoint.
HiSoftware Security Sheriff SP Brings First-of-its-Kind Content-Aware Security Capabilities to Microsoft SharePoint
New Solution Extends Award-Winning Functionality of Compliance Sheriff to Help Organizations
Classify, Track and Secure Sensitive Information
Nashua, NH; November 1, 2011 – With SharePoint quickly emerging as the primary Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system for thousands of organizations, HiSoftware Inc. today announced the launch of the first content-aware compliance and security solutions optimized specifically for Microsoft SharePoint® 2010. With a new release of HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff® for SharePoint, now HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff SP, and the debut of HiSoftware Security Sheriff™ SP, HiSoftware is making SharePoint safe for even the most sensitive enterprise data, from Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to Protected Health Information (PHI) to pre-release financials, strategic product information, HR data and more.
SharePoint: the leader in collaboration, but in need of ISVs
In a SearchContentManagement.com article, Jonathan Gourlay reports that many Microsoft SharePoint platform users are “relying on a host of independent software vendors (ISVs) to handle what SharePoint can’t.” The article references an AIIM Industry Watch report, “SharePoint – strategies and experiences,” that says the “top three areas targeted by ISVs in 2010 were workflow, search and analytics, and security and rights management.”
Quoted in the article was Mark Gilbert, research vice president and lead analyst on SharePoint for Gartner Research who said:
“Just because SharePoint is a lot of stuff, it doesn’t mean it’s all good stuff, but a lot of it is.” He compares the platform to a Swiss Army Knife that allows the user to add tools. “To make [SharePoint] a real enterprise-class tool, you typically have to pay a lot of attention to the care and feeding of it and you have to add a lot of third-party tools.”
Jonathan’s article as well as the AIIM Industry Watch report showcases just how necessary it is for SharePoint to benefit from ISV expertise – particularly in the content area.
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