Posts Tagged ‘sharepoint 2010’

Erin Eschen Moloney (@erine) made me aware of this post by Symon Garfield on CMWire’s site.  Symon has been posting a variety of article about SharePoint success and in this post he turns to SharePoint as a Development Platform.   I like a lot of what he says but the following quote is my favorite as […]

Integrating to any large system can pose a number of challenges.  Over time, we’ve had to integrate to SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, and a variety of other systems.  One thing we’ve learned is that it’s always possible but also brings with it a number of challenges.  Today I wanted to focus on integration to Peoplesoft.   Part […]

Mark Polly recently posted an overview on SharePoint custom development with some interesting views from Forrester about the risks of custom development.  While I don’t completely disagree with what Forrester says, I think I’m a little less afraid of custom development than those at Forrester.  Here’s what I believe regarding custom development on any platform: […]

I heard Eric Harlan and Mark Rackley talk about best practices with JQuery and Sharepoint JQuery Overview What It’s that client side middle tier thing It’s a Javascript utility library available at JQuery.com Lots of third parties libraries are available to enhance your sites Why Using it will improve your user experience You don’t have […]

Since this is the week for Sharepoint’s conference, I thought I would track the news from the conference. Quick hits and info: Microsoft has sold 125 million licenses of sharepoint Sharepoint 2010 has sold 62 million licenses so far SharePoint by itself would be one of the top 50 software firms 67% of firms have […]

We are starting to see some congruence in our techno-equalizers – the Quad and Wave.  The leaders are starting to pull together: IBM SharePoint 2010 Jive But one area that is often noted is that many solutions are vertically aligned.  That’s not a bad thing.   As a general rule most of the leaders in either […]

Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

In run up to the Sharepoint 2011 conference this year, I’m seeing a lot of articles about Sharepoint.  This includes an interesting article by CMS Wire on next steps for Sharepoint.  Their quick answers is something I believe in. It’s all about planning and governance: Establish core competencies Champion the Optimized enterprise Consider product, platform, […]

In run up to the Sharepoint 2011 conference this year, I’m seeing a lot of articles about Sharepoint.  This includes an interesting article by CMS Wire on next steps for Sharepoint.  Their quick answers is something I believe in. It’s all about planning and governance: Establish core competencies Champion the Optimized enterprise Consider product, platform, […]

Rick Taylor, one of our well published and sought after Sharepoint gurus, has a two minute video out on Sharepoint governance.  He’s usually so busy working and presenting he doesn’t get much time to blog.  I thought I’d point this out.