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7/31/2008
Limelight is a new section in our blog that will feature SharePoint experts, industry leaders and other guest bloggers demonstrating the capabilities of SharePoint and its organizational impact.
Join Matt Tinkler online as he discusses Portal Sprawl. Although SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007) is a powerful tool to build and support portal applications, there are certain issues that should be addressed early in the design and implementation of the product. If not, you could have an administrative nightmare on your hands. The flexibility and user friendliness of any application can also make it easy to duplicate extraneous files and functions. The failure to create an overall architecture that is easy to understand and maintain can lead to more than just headaches for the technology services areas and also frustrate end users.
This presentation will cover many of the basic issues facing a deployment of SharePoint, emphasizing the best techniques for optimizing flexibility without creating a maintenance nightmare. Like rabbits left on their own, without a little bit of planning or intervention, SharePoint sites can multiple out of control rapidly, eating a lot of resources.
Matt Tinkler is the key note speaker. Matt is a seasoned IT professional and one of the owners of B2B Technologies, LLC. With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, he has consulted with both smaller organizations as well as Global 1000 companies.
 7/15/2008
As Bill Gates leaves behind his beloved Microsoft, he parts with 4 core beliefs:
1.Think of software as a utopian tool.
2.Let the engineers rule.
3.Institutionalize paranoia.
4.Invest for the longterm. (Invest in SharePoint)
SharePoint is one of Microsoft most successful products and is projected to generate about $1 billion in revenue for 2008. "Whatever the cycle is, we will keep investing through the cycle," says Entertainment division president Robbie Bach, "because we know on the other side of whatever cycle happens, there is opportunity. That's just the way the company thinks about itself."
6/18/2008
Microsoft Monday announced a new program for some of its IT services partners whereby it will pay them to provide Software Assurance customers with consulting and deployment services for Office SharePoint Server 2007.
The benefit to IT customers: If you have SharePoint Server 2007 and are a Software Assurance volume licensing customer, then Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will pay partners to provide you with deployment planning services. (Software Assurance is Microsoft's subscription software maintenance program.)
Microsoft describes it as "a new, partner-delivered offering designed to help customers successfully plan their deployment of SharePoint." The new service is available immediately.
Named SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), the offering includes certification testing for deployment partners in SharePoint technologies. It also "aggregates all of Microsoft's training, technical, marketing, and sales resources for deploying SharePoint, providing you with a single process to engage with Microsoft to grow your business," according to a statement for partners on the SDPS Center Web site.
Johnston, Stuart (2008) Deploying SharePoint Server? Here's a Plan. Internetnews.com. 5/9/2008MOSSmosis News
Microsoft will offer a set of online services that should support companies of all sizes. A new licensing model that offers services on a per-user subscription basis is provided. Current customers with Software Assurance can purchase these per-user subscriptions at a discount.
There are four online services available either separately or as a suite:
- SharePoint Online
- Exchange Online
- Office Communications Online
- Office Live Meeting
Looks like it’s going to be another big year for SharePoint and the analysts are already predicting it’s continued wide-spread use (viral or otherwise). To find out more about Microsoft’s online services, take tour of their website.
Mosher, Barb (2008) SharePoint goes online with new services. CMS Wire. 5/7/2008
MOSSmosis Atlanta
Matt Tinkler from B2B Technologies spoke to another packed house at FOX Sports Grill. The topic was "Portal Sprawl" and from the volume of questions and notes taken, portal sprawl could be our next pandemic! Ok, that may be a little dramatic but "out of control" SharePoint sites have definitely become a major concern for companies. Download Matt's presentation by clicking HERE. Matt went on to reveal 9 SharePoint tips/secrets and was followed by Jon Hoake of SoftChoice regarding SharePoint licensing.
Let us know what you thought of the event. Your feedback helps guide the group and is very much appreciated.
5/5/2008
MOSSmosis News
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is one of the fastest growing products in the company’s history and seems to have as many uses as a Swiss Army knife.
A Forrester survey, which was self-funded and involved 259 IT pros, shows that 24% are implementing or upgrading to MOSS 2007 now while another 41% plan to do so in the next six months. Another 12% of users plan to roll MOSS 2007 out in the next 12 months.
ECM was the primary reason for 22% of respondents in rolling out MOSS 2007, the survey showed. Next was improved employee communication (17%), ability to improve business intelligence usage (16%), improve business performance management (15%), improve online collaboration with external parties (9%), and provide employees with unified communications (9%).
Fontana, John (April, 2008). SharePoint altering ECM landscape, survey says. Network World. 5/1/2008
MOSSmosis Atlanta
Want to know about 10 things you can do with SharePoint that you probably weren't aware of? Join us Tuesday, May 6th at FOX Sports Grill.
4/30/2008
MOSSmosis News
Why should CIOs pay close attention to this particular Microsoft product?
Because it's viral (meaning its use is probably growing in your company, whether you know it or not), and it needs to be managed closely to get the most of out it.
As a barometer of the momentum of SharePoint, Microsoft's content/document/image/records management system, the SharePoint 2007 conference, held in Seattle March 3-7, was a complete sell-out, with a wait list of over 500 people. In fact, some desperate SharePoint people even showed up without conference passes, hoping to scalp a ticket to get into the event. And if you believe SharePoint is simply a departmental solution, think again. Many of the companies in attendance were global, and their use of the product expansive. If you're not paying attention to this phenomenon, you are doing your organization a disservice.
Organizations generally rely on SharePoint to serve as a centralized repository for a variety of files, and it does a good job at that: Most of the files can be easily searched for quick access. But SharePoint also has proven to be a very successful collaboration platform; its workflow capabilities, while not best of breed, are helping information and process workers get their jobs done more efficiently.
Soat, John (March, 2008). The CIO and SharePoint. Information Week 4/25/2008
MOSSmosis Atlanta
Join Matt Tinkler from B2B Technologies and Michael Pathi from Microsoft as they discuss how to prevent "Out of Control" SharePoint sites and SharePoint security.
Matt is a seasoned IT professional and one of the owners of B2B Technologies, LLC. He has over twenty years of experience in the IT industry and has consulted with both smaller organizations as well as Global 1000 companies in the application of a wide range of technologies to solve business needs.
Register: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=126660
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