SharePoint Magazine

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.

As a CFO and senior business executive would life be better if all your commercial information, everything from files and documents to LOB systems were all accountable and controllable from one platform or portal?

This is not a “How-To” article, but I have tried to include examples of “real world” experiences I’ve encountered along the way. Now, without further delay, lets take a stroll through Five Important Tests you should perform before “Go Live” with your SharePoint solution.

Just as companies have implemented email archiving systems to better manage their ever-growing volumes of email records, an increasing number are doing the same for their SharePoint records. SEC Rule 17a-4, HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are just a few of the laws and regulations requiring companies to actively monitor employee communications.

n today’s business climate, competitive pressures are greater than ever. Organizations must leverage any competitive advantage to gain or maintain an edge. Or, in the midst of a shrinking economy, there is always a need to do more with less.

This article will highlight many issues organisations will experience as a consequence of lack of experience, poor decision making or expectation management with the business sponsors.

This the third post of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. In the last post I explained some of the great things that can be implemented. In this post I will introduce the Governance, the People and the Approach that needs to surround SharePoint.

This the second post of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. In the first post I introduced at a high level the Capabilities, the Editions, the Infrastructure and the API of the SharePoint Platform. In this post I will give my own opinion on what capabilities to start with and what ones to use Open Source/Partner Solutions with or to wait for SharePoint 2009.

As a business executive you may be aware that SharePoint, capable of delivering considerable and rapid business value, can just as quickly end up off-track producing a disaster.

Dan Neff is pretty straightforward about it: “SharePoint is the most installed piece of software in the whole world that’s not being used properly.”