AIIM: Enterprises Not Completely Happy With SharePoint. While recent research by AIIM indicates that at least 70% of organizations have deployed SharePoint in some shape or form over the past year, the way it is being used and the reasons it is being deployed in the first instance, are as many as there are enterprises using it. However, according to the latest in AIIM’s Industry Watch series report, entitled The SharePoint Puzzle - adding the missing pieces (free after registration), the fact that so many enterprises have a SharePoint presence should not fool people into thinking that it is taking over. Yes, it is present in the majority of companies, but the survey of 551 individual members of the AIIM community that produced 488 responses, shows that many enterprises are also using third-party products to bolster perceived functionality weaknesses in all SharePoint editions, including SharePoint 2010.
But the research has also uncovered dissatisfaction with SharePoint. Enterprise SharePoint Deployments AIIM: SharePoint usage Useful article? The Unanswerable Question. By Christian Buckley , Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler April 16, 2012 - 8:17 PM Current Rating: (0 ratings) One of the most-asked SharePoint questions has absolutely nothing to do with technology: How do we get started? Whether I am presenting on managed metadata and taxonomy, social computing, governance, or migration planning, someone in the audience inevitably asks this question. It happened again this weekend while presenting my session 'How SharePoint 2010 Stacks up to Your End User Social Media Requirements' at the 3rd annual SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles event. I shared vignettes into a SharePoint environment where search is optimized, where taxonomy management and proactive governance take center ring, and where end users have been trained on how to use the platform and how to request changes.
And for all those who don't use SharePoint, but possibly a competing knowledge management or collaboration platform, these same issues apply. Follow this Blog Post Report Rate Post. Thriving in a State of SharePoint Governance. According to the initial results of a Microsoft SharePoint governance survey commissioned by Axceler, more than two-thirds of the respondents consider SharePoint governance to be extremely or very important to their organizations. Yet nearly half of those same respondents confirmed that SharePoint governance policies do not exist or are undefined. Governing in a State of SharePoint The state of SharePoint governance today, as indicated by the survey, shows that though SharePoint remains a “strategic enterprise platform” by a majority of respondents (65%), more than half of the organizations surveyed have just started their governance planning efforts, or have not begun them at all.
To help us better understand the misconceptions about governance and best prepare and empower our companies to manage data more effectively, we turned to a former Microsoft insider. Is Governance a Part of Your Organization Culture? Different Perspectives, Different Needs Educate & Empower The Future is Now. SharePoint: un-planned, under-developed and un-loved - but not un-popular - SharePoint Community Blog.
By Doug Miles , Director Market Intelligence at AIIM July 30, 2012 - 12:44 PM Current Rating: (3 ratings) The latest AIIM Industry Watch report is out today, and it has some great insights into the love/hate relationship between SharePoint and its users. We asked implementers if they thought SharePoint was the right decision for their business when they originally went for it. It would be easy to focus on the 9% who feel it was a poor decision rather than the 55% who are positive about it – although half of those found it tougher going than they expected. More interesting, however, are the 22% who "had high ambitions, but have only achieved basic deployment".
But what of the “un-loved”? Despite all of this, SharePoint continues to be popular, but not necessarily as the “ECM across the enterprise” we often visualize, nor as “ECM for smaller businesses” which was once the marketing concept. Follow this Blog Post Report Rate Post. Evolution of SharePoint Project Governance: Best Practices for Today. In yesterday's article, “The Evolution of SharePoint Project Governance: Lessons Learned,” we explored the differences between SharePoint governance of the past and today’s holistic view of SharePoint governance as it relates to organizational goals and business needs.
Today we reveal how an organization can move from the antiquated form of SharePoint governance to a modern form of SharePoint governance that provides true business value. SharePoint is a technology that demands strategic integration with both business plans and IT plans. Business governance shapes the vision and sets the course for the company, but SharePoint project governance keeps the tiller pointed in the proper heading. Successful SharePoint governance for today’s modern organizations mandates participation by a wide range of stakeholders to keep an organization heading in the right direction. The governance board is responsible for developing governance strategies and continuing to refine them over time.
Bystanders. The Mobile SharePoint Intranet Prioritization Matrix (now in 3D) Intranets can take years to complete and very often never actually reach the stage of total completion; they are in a continuous state of evolution. With the advent of mobile access from an array of devices, deciding what features to deploy, and how, becomes even more challenging. Intranet Prioritization Matrix Feature requests come from departments, content consumers, content owners, management…the list is endless. With requirements coming from many directions, prioritization is key. All of these requests have to be considered and the benefit of them weighed and put into some kind of prioritization matrix (shown below). The next step is usually to put together a plan and create a project very often hitting the low hanging fruit and quick wins first. Consider User Experience Nothing new here I hear you say, well that’s not quite true.
Identify Apps This is where I find identifying the “apps” in requirements helps. The 3D Mobile Intranet Prioritization Matrix You Can’t Ignore Mobile. Sharing Is Caring. Or Is It? By , July 29, 2012 - 3:45 PM Current Rating: (2 ratings) When I was consulting on Enterprise Content Management technologies, I became very fond of the “pre-mortem” practice, plan ahead for what going to go wrong. Then we’d think of ways we could have prevented the project’s failure—a sort of after-the-fact analysis done beforehand.
There are two categories, as I see it, of new features in SharePoint 2013. SHARE is. Have you ever heard of a little disorder companies face called “SharePoint Sprawl”? This is not the goal companies should seek when deploying SharePoint. The thing about sprawl is it’s viral, so those features that make it even easier for users to open up doors are the ones guilty of advancing sprawl. The neat new “Share” button is such a feature. An active user of SharePoint named Lydia contributes and consumes content on a regular basis. OK, I know. Sharing is caring. Follow this Blog Post Report Rate Post. Sharepoint: Who, How and Why We're Using It [Infographic]
Introducing “Napa” - Office 365 Development Tools - Jason Zander's blog. Yesterday was a very exciting day for Office and SharePoint! The team unveiled plans for the new Office at a press conference, and released a public preview of Office and SharePoint 2013. You can find the press release available on the Microsoft News Center, and watch the video webcast by CEO Steve Ballmer on-demand . You can also download the release at office.com/preview. But the excitement doesn’t stop there – if you’re a developer you’ll be very happy to hear about the new ways in which you’ll be able to develop for Office and SharePoint.
Office and SharePoint 2013 feature a new Cloud App Model that embraces web standards, and allows you to build a new class of apps that combine web technologies and cloud services, right within Office and SharePoint. Introducing “Napa” In sync with yesterday’s Office and SharePoint release, I’m happy to share that we released a preview of a new toolset called “Napa”, which is the easiest way to start building apps for the new Cloud App Model. Run.