Protected: Trade Tips and Prices at the SharePoint StackExchange
December 16, 2011
Intelligent Search Vital to Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
December 16, 2011
To be successful and turn products into profits, you need a product lifecycle management (PLM) system that helps you create higher quality products. Launch new products in less time and at a lower cost. Control your production processes instead of letting them control you. Infor’s PLM software helps you do all of this, reducing your time to scale by 50% or more, reducing materials usage by 20% to 50%, and increasing your on-time launches to 98%.
Catherine Lamsfuss, December 13, 2011
Keeping Data Governance Under Control
December 16, 2011
Adopting an enterprise solution is often seen as a move towards simplifying an organization’s data organization and retrieval needs. However, if it is not handled appropriately, an organization can create an enterprise model that creates more problems than it solves. The white paper, “Create a SharePoint Data Governance Model,” discusses how an organization can prevent loss of control in regulating their SharePoint sites.
SharePoint collaboration sites grow and grow and grow… and all too often grow to a point at which they are out of control. That’s not good – not if you’re a SharePoint admin. This 12-page paper will help you create a data governance model to bring those SharePoint sites back under control. Read the paper to see a simple model for data governance based on a typical SharePoint content management process. Each section discusses one major activity related to data governance within the document management lifecycle, and how it relates to key organizational roles like IT Administrators, Corporate Risk/Compliance Officers, Content Owners and Information Workers.
Download the full text of the white paper to learn more. We also recommend exploring third party solutions to fill in some of the gaps that SharePoint has yet to close. Fabasoft Mindbreeze offers a suite of solutions that are designed with usability and uniformity in mind. Mindbreeze works in conjunction with an already existing SharePoint implementation or as an alternative to SharePoint. Read more about their Folio software:
“Fabasoft Folio is the standard software product for Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration, Compliance Management, agile Business Processes and Information Governance. The solution provides uniform, reliable and controlled management of digital content in the enterprise. Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise links Fabasoft Folio for uniform enterprise-wide information access.”
The moral of this story – control your enterprise solution, do not let it control you. Best practices and other suggestions can help your organization optimize SharePoint, but other third party solutions, such as Mindbreeze, might produce better results with less effort.
Emily Rae Aldridge, December 16, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: SharePoint Forces Organizational Culture Shock
December 15, 2011
The Role of Enterprise Search within Product Lifecycle Management
December 15, 2011
…it is the fact that the PLM world is changing from databases towards networks. It is not about capturing all data inside one single system, but to be able to find the right information through a network of information carriers. This suits also very well with the new generation of workers (generation-Y) who also learned to live in this type of environments and collect information through their social networks.
Catherine Lamsfuss, December 12, 2011
Startups Challenge SharePoint
December 15, 2011
Enterprise 2.0 is a term being thrown around the blogosphere to indicate incorporation of social media functionality into workplace software. The leader in enterprise, Microsoft SharePoint, is quite clearly incapable of keeping up in any discussion of enterprise 2.0. Andy McLoughlin, co-leader of the enterprise 2.0 startup, Huddle, offers his insight in, “This 32-Year-Old Entrepreneur is Bent on Beating One of Microsoft’s Largest Businesses.”
McLoughin says,
There’s a huge amount of room to improve upon SharePoint as a content collaboration tool the enterprise. It’s sold as free software, yet any CIO who has tried (and failed) to implement it knows that it’s far too easy to spend many months and hundreds of thousands of dollars getting it ready for deployment. Users generally hate it and most licenses will never be deployed.
We agree. SharePoint at its best is simply a basic platform, or foundation, and functionality is only achieved through potentially costly add-ons for deployment. However, good third party solutions are out there. One is Fabasoft Mindbreeze.
The Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise user interface is based on Web 2.0 technology and combines simplicity with elegance. The operation is self-explanatory. Work just as you are used to. Access your data from anywhere. Also on smartphones and tablets. Elegant design, easy operation. With you wherever you are. Find and access your enterprise and cloud information straight away.
To set itself apart from the newer enterprise startups, Fabasoft has been an up-and-comer in the industry for ten years, having received the KM World Trendsetting Product of the Year four years running. With a track record of anticipation and innovation, Fabasoft Mindbreeze will continue to offer solutions that make sense in a changing technological culture. To fix today’s problems, and work toward tomorrow’s solutions, look at a smart installation like Fabasoft Mindbreeze.
Emily Rae Aldridge, December 15, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Sinequa Releases Business Search Version 8.0
December 15, 2011
Sinequa has just released the latest version of its enterprise search platform, as described in its “Version 8.0 of Sinequa Business Search becomes a Unified Information Access Platform.” A number of improvements have been made on 2009’s Version 7.
One unique feature: the new version is compatible with both Linux and Windows. It also sports new graphical elements; secure auto-completion with orthographic correction; and real-time computation of performance indicators. Furthermore, it now calculates relevance based in part on user actions.
There are also new Text Mining Agents. We learned from the write-up:
Tens of Text Mining Agents (TMA) are delivered as part of Version 8. In addition to the now classic ones like extractors of addresses, names of people or companies, the new version also includes extractors for email addresses, Facebook and Twitter links, and even bank account numbers and automobile number plates.
Another new focus is on collaborative and social business search. Labels allow users to influence the categorization of documents, while ratings let users assign each document a grade which will influence its ranking in response lists.
To learn more, check out the write ups at toolinux, silicon.fr, and artesi. (If you don’t read French, though, have handy your translation software of choice.)
Sinequa bases its context-sensitive Business Search on twenty five years of linguistic research. It combines semantic tools with statistical analysis, and has the capability to manage up to tens of thousands of users and billions of records. Perhaps best of all, it is built to integrate into most enterprise applications and data sources commonly used by businesses around the world.
Cynthia Murrell, December 15, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Grasp Your SharePoint Workflows and Evaluate Productivity
December 14, 2011
Duties of the Project Manager
December 14, 2011
What is the modern role of a project manager? The article “Product Management and Solution Design” explores their ever-changing responsibilities and the function of the position. The focus is simply what the project manager should and should not be doing.
According to the article:
The basic role of a project manager is to “generate value for their companies by finding market problems that potential customers will pay to solve, and then leading the process of finding a feasible and compelling solution.”
However, it is not their job to design the solution. The articles goes on to say that “[i]t is far different to find-and then define- a market problem than it is to figure out the best way to solve it.”
Though the article points out some very useful ideas, it neglects to take into account the rapidly increasing need for an engineering and business centric findability system. Such a system would again evolve the role of the project manager. Inforbix has the solution today. They provide what you need for product data, without the data management. It is something every project manager should check out.
Jennifer Wensink, December 13, 2011
Search-Driven Web Content
December 14, 2011
Web content management deserves attention and planning when evaluating your company’s online business model. William Saville at CMS Wire discusses all the angles that need to be evaluated in, “SharePoint 2010 As a Web Delivery Platform.” Search-based experiences are becoming more valuable in the overall online experience. Users want to quickly find the content that is relevant to them, without wading through irrelevant hits.
Everyone is talking about search-driven experiences that enable easier discovery of content and make content personal and relevant to the end user. The business case is quite simple. The quicker people can find what they are looking for on a website, the more likely they are to engage and take an interest one step further. Using the search technology that is baked into SharePoint, as well as FAST search (which can be implemented on top of SharePoint), it is possible to provide end users with powerful search-based experiences.
We think this is one area in particular where a third-party alternative to SharePoint excels, specifically Fabasoft Mindbreeze. The Austrian-based company offers a suite of solutions that serve as alternatives to SharePoint or work alongside a SharePoint installation, improving its performance. Its InSite product adds meaning to website search.
Fabasoft Mindbreeze InSite is our product to empower websites with professional high-end search cababilities. We offer InSite as a Cloud service and for on premise installation. Today, I would like to show how you can adapt the search-experience by defining views. Views allow you to group search results by search queries. It’s a really great and simple concept and you can adapt your search results without any need for server configuration. The following 5 scenarios should get you started on the topic . . .
The Mindbreeze InSite solution offers metadata, filters, grouping by product, and content-based views to name a few options. The search is intuitive and results are relevant and fast. See if InSite might be a beneficial addition to your online business model.
Emily Rae Aldridge, December 14, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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