Operations

I just caught a great session here at SharePoint Conference 2012 where the good folks at Kroger (a large retail grocer in the central/eastern US) laid out what was basically a case study of how deploying Yammer has energized and enabled their workforce. What interested me about this session was the uniqueness of it– prior […]

So one key question I run into constantly is how to do video in your portal site.   If you want easy then just say, “Sure it can. Just embed a link or use a Silverlight control and you’re off and running”  Then you just hope they don’t ask any follow up questions like, “Well, […]

Today I am going to talk about application model in SharePoint 2013. There are tons of hundreds of articles, videos, blogs and msdn how-to videos available online and they are pretty good too. The reason for sharing my thoughts on the subject is to give you a concise, holistic view in couple of paragraphs that […]

Author: Suzanne George It is the end of day 1 at the SharePoint conference and one could write a book about all the new / coming changes with SharePoint 2013.  I have taken pages of notes, met with many people, and learned about many of the new features Microsoft is bringing us with SharePoint 2013. […]

This is the first part of a series discussing the impacts for tax configurations and processing when upgrading from 11i to R12. Part I will address how Procurement tax components are migrated. Part II will address how Receivables tax components are migrated. Part III will identify migration challenges and issues. Tax data structures and technical […]

Yesterday I sat in on a Big Thinkers in Big Data tweet chat hosted by Intel and Forrester’s Mike Gualtieri. With our Big Data in Financial Services webinar just around the corner I wanted to catch the latest on what others were saying about the topic and its relevancy in banking.  As a marketer it is imperative I stay […]

I came to this year’s SharePoint Conference with one goal in mind: I wanted to learn everything I could about Microsoft’s enterprise roadmap for Yammer.  Well, as of this writing the conference is halfway over and if anything, it looks I’m probably going to get about halfway to that goal. I’m not going to recap […]

One challenge common to any implementation of SharePoint 2010 is how to implement a theme with minimal effort. It usually requires significant planning and some cut corners to get what you want.  Fortunately, the latest release has some changes that should improve the process. Randy Drisgill and John Ross, SharePoint MVPs from Rackspace spoke at […]

Matt Feczko and Ben Wilde focused on real life scenario on how social will work.  They include: Asking and answering questions Managing multiple projects Working with documents Finding our more about people The whole concept is that social should make life easier. It should improve employee engagement, team collaboration, and business agility.  However, all of […]

Mark Kashman (@mkashman) presented on mobile and SharePoint. Like everyone else, Microsoft sees the mobile revolution with 1 billion devices, 82% of the online population using social and 50% being on the road to the cloud. When they think of SharePoint mobile they think of it in three different ways. That includes mobile browser, native apps, and […]

Mark Kashman (@mkashman), Senior Product Manager at Microsoft presented on the New SharePoint Online (e.g. as part of Office 365).  It’s currently in a preview mode so it’s only in three data centers but it will launch next year. This version is the first version designed as part of a service rather than a product […]

Oracle enterprise healthcare solutions provide the framework to accelerate compliance to Accountable Care Organization (ACO) reporting requirements by providing a comprehensive healthcare data model, pre-built integration to many of the major EMR vendors, and world class performance management tools to harness Business Intelligence and Analytics, Profitability & Cost Management, and Big Data … all necessary for Population […]