Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint’

Business intelligence initiatives are often met with challenges. Getting the right information to the right people is often easier said than done. When implemented successfully, business intelligence solutions drive change; both in the way people work and the business decisions made. For organizations capturing business data electronically, Microsoft provides a set of integrated business intelligence […]

In the last few months, we’ve spent a lot of time on this blog discussing social intranets, SharePoint social business concepts and solutions, and web content management in SharePoint 2013. Given the interest in these topics, I thought I’d point our more SharePoint-admin-inclined readers to some similar content elsewhere that provides a fairly concise summary […]

I started working with SharePoint 2013 RTM today on a Windows 2012 Server. My initial project is to do with search so I quickly created a Search Service Application and performed the minimal configuration to begin crawling the ‘Local SharePoint sites’ content source. Everything looked good so I started a crawl on this source. I quickly realized that […]

Working with clients I am always keen to bring the conversation about search forward in our discussion of a solution. Search is not something we ‘plug in’ or ‘turn on’ in the later stages of a SharePoint project. Search needs to be considered from the outset and built into the architecture if we are to […]

If you have ever worked with customizing search results in SharePoint you will be familiar with the need to write XSLT. I was always somewhat of a reluctant XSLT developer, I was able to achieve some interesting customizations but they did not come without some pain and the feeling that there must be a better […]

Microsoft has really targeted the user experience in 2013 Search and there are a whole host of improvements which will I think impress our users. They include: We can now see search results as we type into the search box. We have some very nice visual refinement available like the new Date Slider. Creating date […]

I was a little disappointed with some aspects of how FAST was bolted on to SharePoint 2010. We had a fantastic new search engine but its capabilities were throttled by the depth of integration with SharePoint. One aspect of this was access to the power of the FAST Query Language (FQL). FQL is a rich […]

We have now had a few months to try out SharePoint 2013 Preview and things are looking really exciting for Search. In this 5-part series of blog posts I will review the upgrade in technology, highlight some new features which I think are important and show how they relate to real-world scenarios. In SharePoint 2010 […]

Microsoft’s SharePoint has become the de facto collaboration solution leveraged by most companies today. In fact Gartner states that 60% of companies are using SharePoint.  With its user-friendly interface and growing features SharePoint has grown into strong player in the ECM space, however in certain areas customers still need the power of a traditional ECM platform that […]

I was recently working on some code that added items to a SharePoint list based on a user’s input from an InfoPath form. It was an easy task until I got to a choice column. I wasn’t sure of the syntax for setting the value of a choice column, and for some reason, all of […]

SharePoint can be leveraged as a comprehensive information platform for the enterprise, including public websites (“in front of the firewall”) and intranet and extranet portals (“behind the firewall”). The following presentation focuses on SharePoint user experience in a “behind the firewall” context. Within your SharePoint environment, an investment in user experience (UX) is critical. From […]

Congratulations to Microsoft for winning CRN‘s Annual Report Card (ARC) Trophy for Collaboration Software, the first time that this category has been included.  From CRN’s post by Rick Whiting “Almost every enterprise we work with has SharePoint someplace,” said Matt Morse, director of the SharePoint practice at Perficient, a St. Louis-based solution provider that’s a […]