5/11/2012
This in-depth article explores how to make parent-child list relationships in SharePoint 2010 - both at the list level and the user interface form level.
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Tags: Portals, SharePoint, Websites
4/27/2012
The Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove Server 2010 technologies are designed to address a common business problem: the need for offline work capability and for offline collaboration. This article first explores the differences between offline work and offline collaboration and then explains how the technologies can be used to solve the issue.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint
3/23/2012
This is the last post in a four part series on the key factors that shape user adoption of the SharePoint platform. Part 1 outlined the affecting factors, while Parts 2 and 3 examined these factors in detail. The final post will examine the remaining key factors that influence user adoption of the SharePoint platform.
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Tags: Collaboration, SharePoint
3/16/2012
In this post we will continue to examine the key factors that influence user adoption of the SharePoint platform. These factors include planning for growth from the start, establishing a user support plan, and continuously adding fresh, dynamic content.
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Tags: Collaboration, SharePoint
3/9/2012
Over the next three posts we will examine each of the key factors that influence user adoption of the SharePoint platform as outlined in Part 1 of this series. It is important to understand which of these factors will have the greatest influence on user adoption within your organization in order to prioritize the efforts necessary to execute your user adoption strategy.
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Tags: Collaboration, SharePoint
3/2/2012
As a consultancy, we place strong emphasis on driving user adoption of the collaboration solutions we develop and deliver for our clients. As an application and collaboration platform, SharePoint can be leveraged for many different purposes. Over the course of this four part blog series we’ll examine the key factors that influence user adoption of these solutions built upon the SharePoint platform.
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Tags: Collaboration, SharePoint
2/15/2012
Microsoft recently announced that Mainstream support of SharePoint 2007 will end on October 9, 2012. This is big news to anyone with a significant investment on the SharePoint 2007 platform. If you have considered migrating to SharePoint 2010, now is the time.
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Tags: General, SharePoint
1/17/2012
We find that the end users of many of the SharePoint solutions are out in the field, needing to access everything in real time and with few complications. This is driving businesses to look towards upgrading to SharePoint 2010 to reap the benefits of cross-browser compatibility, or modifying their existing portals for mobile audiences.
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Tags: Mobile, SharePoint
4/28/2011
With SQL Server and SharePoint 2010, Microsoft provides a variety of business intelligence (BI) applications that fit a wide range of business needs. Business intelligence is now a reality for all organizations, large and small.
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Tags: Business Intelligence, SharePoint
3/20/2011
We've recently added a new presentation to the Northridge library. This particular presentation focuses on SharePoint and Business Intelligence, detailing the Microsoft BI portal capabilities and business value.
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Tags: Business Intelligence, SharePoint
8/6/2010
SharePoint has an ideal combination of features and tools designed to streamline the work process and remove daily issues with necessary business practices. Here are five daily business process issues that SharePoint successfully removes through simple organization and innovative technology applications.
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Tags: Business Intelligence, Collaboration, SharePoint
6/7/2010
I get a LOT of emails from a variety of industry sites that I opted into, but I admit that many go unopened. Well, this morning from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, I received one with the title "Does SharePoint Destroy Intranet Design?"
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint, UX
11/20/2009
In a previous post we introduced the Northridge SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle, which we identified as having five stages. In this post we will focus on the second of these stages: standing up new SharePoint sites, one of the most common activities to take place in a SharePoint intranet, but also a key governance topic.
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Tags: Portals, SharePoint
11/13/2009
As Northridge has developed various SharePoint-based business solutions for clients, and assisted clients in a consulting capacity with SharePoint strategy and governance, we have developed a model that we call the SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint, UX
9/30/2009
2009 and 2010 will be remembered as the time when the words "search" and "Microsoft" became closely associated in the minds of enterprise technology customers, vendors, and developers.
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Tags: Portals, SharePoint, UX
7/8/2009
When organizations adopt the Microsoft SharePoint platform, there are often at least a few people in the group who are very excited about the prospect of using the SharePoint wiki feature.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint
5/21/2009
As our design team works closely with our SharePoint development team with the MOSS 2007 platform, we continue to push further into interesting realms.
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Tags: SharePoint, UX
7/18/2008
Historically, SharePoint has been a strong collaboration tool used heavily for corporate intranets, but with the new version it has become much more of a community building tool with robust content management features added.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint