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Two thirds of global companies with annual sales of $1 billion or more are failing to become social enterprises, according to CapGemini Consulting global study released earlier this month. And while businesses are feeling the stinging sense of urgency they must adopt a true social business model if they are to remain relevant, sustainable and profitable, most simply don’t know how to go about it.
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Sharepoint and Office 365 | Social Media
When SharePoint 2010 arrived in the marketplace, the platform included new social capabilities to improve productivity and collaboration. However, as the consumer social web exploded, it became clear that the 2010 platform only provided the basic building blocks of social computing. As many organizations are now making social collaboration a priority, it’s important to dispel myths and provide a reality-based understanding of SharePoint 2010 as a social computing platform.
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Sharepoint and Office 365 | Taxonomy
Many organizations are finding that leveraging the full suite of capabilities SharePoint often requires the introduction of a new requirement – that of dealing with, managing, and exploiting taxonomies. Of course, taxonomies are not new, but there is some confusion about where managed metadata services and the term store end and true taxonomy management begins. There are also some misconceptions about the process of deriving and applying taxonomies in SharePoint. The following are five areas of confusion that we have seen in our engagements and research.
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Myth #1. SharePoint was not developed by a secret team of Microsoft Tribbles. Reality -- Actually, I believe it was. Many companies today are discovering that SharePoint has led to a rapid and uncontrolled spawning of user-created portals, just like that cute but pesky first pair of tribbles that spawned so many offspring so quickly that they almost overwhelmed the starship Enterprise. I have heard many companies report to their astonishment that after deploying SharePoint, they had thousands of SharePoint sites thrown up by employees. One company recently told me, as they tried to work through a degree of shock that suggested the need for professional therapeutic intervention, that they had determined just that morning that there were 30,000 SharePoint sites on their network. Surely a team of programming tribbles produced such an application.
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Electronic Records Management (ERM) | Sharepoint and Office 365
Myth #1: It is too hard to implement “true” Records Management (RM) in SharePoint. Reality: Microsoft made SharePoint more of a retention tool with an interface that is familiar to SharePoint and IT professionals than an RM solution whose interface is familiar to RM professionals. “Out of the box” implementations of SharePoint RM require a wide variety of configuration settings, customizations, and choices that must be established and maintained by someone who is familiar with both SharePoint systems administration and retention policies. However, SharePoint add-on products are emerging that elegantly support the traditional principles and tenants of RM and enable the management of retention and disposition decisions based on information management policies in ways that are familiar to most RM professionals. These products fit into the familiar SharePoint user experience and enable enterprise RM with few of the penalties that some RM solutions have forced on SharePoint users, such as requiring users to understand multiple product interfaces and to search for information in multiple repositories.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Sharepoint and Office 365
We just completed our research to understand how businesses are using SharePoint to support their ECM requirements. The study uncovered some interesting insights. Here some the highlights.
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