SharePoint Magazine

“Leading Change with Kerri Abraham” is a new column here on SharePoint Magazine, where user adoption expert Kerri Abraham shares her knowledge and experience from running successful SharePoint sites with empowered end users.

You’d think that Sun Tzu, the great warfare strategist, wouldn’t know neither the up nor the down of modern software such as SharePoint. You’d be surprised at how much you can learn from ancient Chinese.

Wonder whether FAST for SharePoint is right for you? In this article, you will learn how three of the technical features included in FAST for SharePoint will help you solve specific business pains that are not easily accomplished with the out of the box search solution in SharePoint 2010. The examples will give you insight in how these technical features will make a difference for your particular business.

SharePoint is increasingly being deployed not just for simple collaborative tools, but as a robust platform for enterprise-wide requirements, for supporting numerous departments in mission-critical processes. A case in point is automated contract lifecycle management, which in our own experience, we are seeing a growing number of companies adopting, across multiple departments.

SharePoint is great for document management, and building documents is on the agenda of most employees in an organization. Wouldn’t it be great to automate some of that document generation by using simple workflows?

You have seen charts and graphs that assure you SharePoint will score a big win for your organization, but how can you be sure? After all, in addition to case studies that point to successful rollouts, you’ve also heard of the numerous SharePoint implementation failures. SharePoint can change the way you do business by increasing [...]

Unless you’ve been living in a black hole, you can’t help but have noticed the inclusion of social features in SharePoint 2010. This article will put forward some simple steps to getting the most out of this new feature set.

This is a story about Christmas cards, or rather, how to build the perfect Christmas card and make sure you get it delivered on time. What does this have to do with SharePoint? Well, read and find out…

A common word that keeps popping up around SharePoint deployments is “Governance,” as if it will help you avoid chaos and have a more successful deployment. The answer is, when executed properly, it can.

Organizations are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, but don’t realize that those cost cutting measures may also have positive environmental effects that can increase goodwill and shareholder value.