Trusting SharePoint
The specific functionality SharePoint offers is interesting enough to pique interest, but full adoption, requires trust. Users need to know that the system is permanent and useful before they will...
View ArticleSharePoint Data Loss Prevention
SharePoint’s strength is in helping people share and collaborate around content, but if unmanaged, that ability to share can create information security issues. These issues come in many forms:...
View ArticleOngoing SharePoint Support and Marketing
SharePoint should be continually re-launched to users through marketing and continuing innovation. If the purpose of the platform is significant, then the change to the users’ working style could be...
View ArticleManaging SharePoint Projects
Just like with software development, the answer to “Is it possible?” with SharePoint is always yes. Yes, we can remove the quick launch menu. Yes, we can change the colors of the font based on its...
View ArticleContract Management System
I’ve had a couple of requests now for a SharePoint Contract Management System, so I thought I would write up one approach to the project. SharePoint contract management systems are unique to each...
View ArticleSharePoint is Hard
SharePoint is easy. After about a 30 minute explanation, anyone with average computer skills can start building pages. The pointing and clicking part of SharePoint is straightforward. But SharePoint is...
View ArticleOutgrowing SharePoint as a Database
When is software too powerful for your own good? A few years ago I was asked to help a customer with an Excel problem. The employee who originally created a set of Excel spreadsheets that controlled...
View ArticleBuilding SharePoint Adoption
Users adopt SharePoint at the same rate and to the same degree that they perceive the tool as something that is easier, better, or faster than whatever they were using before. SharePoint as an...
View ArticleTrusting SharePoint
The specific functionality SharePoint offers is interesting enough to pique interest, but full adoption, requires trust. Users need to know that the system is permanent and useful before they will...
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