Microsoft

This is a wide ranging presentation on how to create the personalized experience.  Ryan Sockalosky started with the business challenges and then moved into the how. You face a variety of challenges: Ease of use with familiar tools to create sites Create, reuse, and consumer content across many different devices and channels Surface the right […]

“Work like a network.”  Spend just a few minutes at SharePoint Conference 2014 and you’re bound to hear or see this phrase sooner than later. It’s here in the keynote and it’s here in the signage.  It’s here on the lips of the Yammer and Social product marketing people I had the good fortune to […]

Eric Overfield (@ericoverfield) and Rita Zhang gave an informative session. It was chock full of examples and example code.  I couldn’t grab the code examples but a lot of the best practices and screenshots from live sites I was able to grab.  They started with the three pillars of Responsive Design: Fluid Grid Must use a […]

One thing is clear at SharePoint Conference 2014, cloud is the future for Microsoft (if it’s not already the present). Jared Spataro kicked off yesterday’s keynote with 4 goals that will shape the future vision of Office. We believe the future of work is all about working as a Network. We believe in personal insights […]

Lately, many of our customers are inquiring about enterprise information management (EIM). More and more organizations are using enterprise information solutions (master data management, data warehousing, governance and quality) to deliver relevant, accurate and timely information, enabling them to make critical business decisions and ultimately, improve performance. What about you – can you trust that […]

Our own Rich Wood spoke at the SharePoint Conference.  Many think of Yammer as only for employees of a specific company but as Rich points out, that’s limiting the technology.   Microsoft actually created a network just for the conference.  This is available to all Yammer users who are attendees of the conference.  That’s one […]

Juliet Wei and Christopher Fiessinger, Microsoft Product Managers gave us a look into where Enterprise Social is headed.   Given the many questions on deeper integration between SharePoint and Yammer plus hoped for enhancements made this a packed session, even if it was the end of the day. They put the agenda as: Work like […]

Rob Lamear, presented on the pros and cons of on-premise vs cloud.  Rather than give a one size fits all answer, he started with a series of questions and points to consider.  His first question was  on who is still running on premise: Most of the audience raised their hands.  Gartner says however that 2016 […]

Just in time for SharePoint Conference 2014, Exoprise, a provider of cloud-based monitoring, introduced its CloudReady Monitor for SharePoint. This new offering expands upon the existing Exoprise CloudReady Monitor for Office 365, giving SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online admins real-time visibility into site performance, allowing them to quickly identify and address issues. From the Press […]

This is going to be a hard hitting session with lots of stats and lots of new features delivered rapid fire.  Hence my heavy use of bullets. 30% of all IT spending will be in the cloud by 2020.  It’s IT as a service.  Keep in mind, SharePoint is one product but there are many […]

Micorosft wants to partner with you.  It’s about trust, control, and the cloud onramp. Platform changes Deliver rock solid platform whether it’s on-premise or in the cloud Will do a 2015 release of SharePoint and Exchange But Cloud remains a key focus Stats 250K responses per second 400K cores 400 Petabytes of storage 20% growth […]

Quote: Norwegian write code like they win medals…………. More per person than any other country in the world.  But first some stats: 3.4 million developers build solutions around SharePoint Microsoft has two key missions in the developer community Give organizations maximum agility to meet business needs Give partners the biggest opportunity Contextual applications When building […]