Protected: SharePoint APIs: The Key to User Satisfaction
October 17, 2011
Protected: Attention! Attention! Another SharePoint 2010 Update Package
October 14, 2011
Protected: How Multiple-Users Can Edit One SharePoint Document
October 13, 2011
RIM Creates BlackBerry App to Address Needs of Changing Workforce
October 11, 2011
Wireless innovation company Research in Motion (RIM), The creator of the BlackBerry Solution in 1999, has now revealed a BlackBerry Client for Microsoft Sharepoint.
In addition to being budget friendly, the BlackBerry Client app has many user benefits for individuals and businesses. User benefits include, among other things, app integration with core BlackBerry features and functions and content searches across multiple SharePoint sites.
The complete solution is also great and easy to use for IT departments with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Many fortune 500 companies plan on using the product in the coming weeks.
According to RIM Mobilizes Microsoft SharePoint on BlackBerry, Victor Garcia, chief technology officer at HP Canada, said of the product:
In a world of continuous connectivity, businesses and governments require products, services and information faster and more reliably than ever before. The BlackBerry Client for Microsoft SharePoint helps to address the needs of today’s mobile workforce with new tools and mobile applications to enable collaboration and productivity.
Mobile computing remains a challenge for enterprises. The applications such as this one from RIM offer tantalizing promises. Is the hardware up to delivering the functionality promised by such apps? Searching Sharepoint on the go a necessary function, perhaps, a delivered solution, it remains to be seen.
Jasmine Ashton, Oct 11, 2011
Protected: Key Issues for SharePoint’s Future
October 11, 2011
Battle in the Grandstand: Analyst Flails at CEO
October 10, 2011
An azure chip consultant grandstanded and fell from the bleachers. Don’t worry, nothing vital was injured; he landed on his head.
Yes, as TechEye.net reports in “Analyst wades into Oracle’s Ellison,” Carter Lusher of the analyst firm Ovum criticized Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s keynote address at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld as being too dull. Columnist Nick Ferrell writes that Lusher was:
apparently bored out of his mind as Ellison showed off a confusing number of diagrams and specs of Oracle’s Exadata and Exalogic appliances. . . . Lusher said that during the Oracle Open World Keynote Ellison missed the opportunity to deliver [Oracle’s] vision beefed up with exciting customer stories, his world famous Belly Savalas party trick , some HP light bulb changing one-liners and perhaps a couple of knob gags.
Here’s a thought: if technical information confuses and bores you that much, maybe you should attend something more your speed. Doodlebops, perhaps?
Really, one should stand on firmer ground before casting aspersions. Oracle may not be perfect, but it is performing in a perfectly acceptable manner. The company is a “mega-vendor,” in Ovum’s own words, leading purveyors of hardware, software, services, and infrastructure.
Besides, it has billions of dollars and quite a few Fortune 1000 firms in a choke-hold. Ovum should be so lucky.
Cynthia Murrell October 10, 2011
Oracle Text Circa 2005, Still Relevant?
October 8, 2011
Oracle Text, formerly known as interMedia Text, is Oracle’s enterprise software that uses SQL to search, index, and analyze information stored in the database, in files, and on the web.
Their website provides a plethora of links on technical information related to this program.
The most basic FAQ’s section, for those folks who may not know the intricacies of what Oracle means when they say ‘Document Services,’ expands on topics such as how this feature simplifies application development.
For the seasoned user, they provide a section on Oracle Text in Oracle Database 11g which links to a PDF describing all the new features. However, it, in addition to White Paper, was created in 2007.
In terms of the actual technical stuff, Oracle does provide comprehensive overviews by version of their previous Oracle Text 10g all the way back to interMedia Text 8.1.5. Prefacing with a disclaimer in the introduction that these summaries are not for a newbie, Oracle has definitely considered their audience in developing this page.
Despite the fact that new versions are released, Oracle recognizes the relevance of maintaining information about previous versions—not everyone wants to keep up with the Joneses of text mining. They still have XML Features, from the 9 version ready and available for reading.
A draw to their website for those in this field is their section devoted to selected papers and presentations from Oracle. They quite a few, ranging from powerpoints on Text Mining with Oracle to a how-to-guide for Search Enable a Website and even a primer on Text Retrieval Quality.
Additionally, they link to multiple customer presentations and case studies such as the ones on Motorola or World Bank. The main drawback is that these are mostly from the early years of the last decade. Updates would be much appreciated from a company that Forbes reported as “Heading to $40 with Strength in Software.”
Megan Feil October 8, 2011
Protected: Improve Your SharePoint My Sites Usability
October 7, 2011
Protected: Who Is Using SharePoint? The Fortune 500 That Is Who
October 6, 2011
Tibbr 3: Findability Vendors, Be Aware
October 5, 2011
Tibco recently announced its new version of software, Tibbr 3.0, which provides all the same amenities as before but adds a component of social networking into the mix. Realizing that social networking is now a necessity in the workplace, version 3.0 enables users ease of access to documents and other data all while still interacting within Tibbr.
In a release Tibco broke Tibbr 3.0’s features into five categories: Unifying Communications in the Workplace, Beyond Follow Act on Activity Streams from Enterprise Applications, Adding a Social Layer to Existing Legacy Applications in Context, Document Management, and Beyond the Workplace.
Perhaps the most interesting of it’s new features is the social networking applications in Beyond the Workplace. As the release explains,
Version 3.0 incorporates tibbr Communities, a function that helps an enterprise to create, manage and monitor stakeholders on one platform, thereby enabling seamless engagement with internal and external contacts, as and when needed, with a single login and URL.
This newest version of Tibco software validates the overwhelming cry from every industry that social networking is not simply a fad and is here to stay. Google is trying their hand at it, as is several others. Companies must begin looking at how social networking can strengthen their business and unite employees for a more fluid and efficient workplace. Worth a look.
Catherine Lamsfuss, October 5, 2011
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