SharePoint altering ECM landscape, survey says. Network World - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 adoption is changing the face of content and document management, but is still not mature enough handle some jobs, according to a survey released by Forrester. The survey shows that companies are aggressively adopting SharePoint with the majority of deployments around enterprise content management. “This thing is growing like a weed,” said Kyle McNabb, an analyst with Forrester. But he said that the relative immaturity of the platform will hold it back from some specialized jobs such as contract management. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is one of the fastest growing products in the company’s history and seems to have as many uses as a Swiss Army knife. Its six focus areas are collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management (ECM), business process management and business intelligence. Just last month, Microsoft added a hosted alternative to fuel adoption.
Enterprise 2.0: Five Innovations the CIO Shouldn't Miss. CIO — It's easy to get caught up in the buzz and media hype surrounding Enterprise 2.0, but some of this is worth your attention. For the CIO, these five things are something to keep on your personal "innovation radar": 1. "Blogs Away" With New Communication Techniques Department newsletters and "From the desk of" e-mails are quickly becoming outdated ways of communicating what is on an executive's mind.
Getting your ideas out there, vetting them and branding yourself is what blogging is all about—and more and more CXOs are taking advantage of this important Web 2.0 innovation. 2. How people relate online continues to evolve, and the latest incarnation is Facebook. 3. The latest new buzzword that is often said in the breath following "Enterprise 2.0. " 4. "Three's the charm" continues to be the mantra for Microsoft Product releases, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) contributes to that folklore. 5.
IBM, Microsoft Show Web 2.0 Wares. Hewlett-Packard will apparently need close to two months to start fulfilling backorders for the (temporarily) revived TouchPad tablet. "It will take 6-8 weeks to build enough HP TouchPads to meet our current commitments, during which time your order will then ship from this stock with free ground shipping," read an email sent to customers and reprinted in a Sept. 7 posting on the Precentral.net blog. "You will receive a shipping notification with a tracking number once your order has shipped. "That would place the new TouchPads in consumers' hands sometime in either late October or early November. The reduced-price devices are not returnable, according to the email. HP originally acquired webOS as part of its takeover of Palm in 2010. The manufacturer originally had big plans for loading the operating system onto a variety of devices, including tablets, smartphones, desktops and laptops.
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