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I hear people from around the globe, complain about SharePoint that it doesn’t do this, or we thought it did that. Yet the AIIM Industry Watch Report titled “The Impact of SharePoint 2016” finds when it comes to SharePoint meeting organizational expectations, nearly half of our respondents are happy with SharePoint and the on-going product roadmap, with half also in agreement that SharePoint is providing good value for the cost.
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Many organizations continue to find themselves in a state of struggle when implementing SharePoint. However, all indications suggest that initially, it is not the fault of the technology, but the failure of the organization to properly address information governance prior to implementing the technology. SharePoint will not automatically organize information in ways that meet compliance requirements, as it is not and cannot be aware of the requirements. It is the human element of a SharePoint environment that must know and understand the rules, set up the framework for the organization, and then align SharePoint to support those requirements and policies.
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In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens famously wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” As I read through the results of our latest SharePoint research, a kind of Dickensian déjà vu washes over me relative to surveys of past years.
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In my post SharePoint Lover, Partner, or Skeptic? 20 Data Points You Need to Know I took a look at some of the highlights of our recent SharePoint research. The core conclusion was this: SharePoint is still being adopted -- but rather chaotically, with mixed results, and with a lot of confusion re Office365 and the cloud. In the post, I encouraged readers to respond to the question, "If you had 30 seconds with Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO), what would you tell him about the future of SharePoint? Here are a few of the responses.
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The core conclusions of a recent AIIM study on SharePoint are that a) the platform is somewhat ubiquitous in just about any organization at scale, and it likely isn't going away and b) organizations are increasingly restless and uncertain figuring out where to go with it. So there's plenty of insight and data for lovers and haters alike.
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I recently did an open-mic webinar with Quentin Christensen and Andrew SanAgustin from Microsoft to answer questions from users about SharePoint. The Q&A flowed beyond the scope of the webinar, so I asked Quentin and Andrew if they could respond to some of the outstanding questions in this post. Here are the questions and their answers -- as usual, no endorsement implied -- and the perspective is theirs, not mine. The point of the post is simply to provide a conduit for the questions and give Quentin and Andrew a chance to give their take.
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