Even ten years ago, the idea that employees would be bringing their own personal IT devices to work then accessing and editing company information from them would have seemed incredible. Of course, technology has moved on rapidly in the last few years and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a growing trend. In fact, research by Gartner suggests that by 2017 half of employers will require employees to supply their own device…

$284 billion – that’s the astonishing projected value for the global market for BYOD and enterprise mobility solutions by 2019. Currently valued at $72 billion, MarketsandMarkets expects an annual growth of 26.6 percent in the mobile enterprise business application market with North America as the largest region in terms of market size.

Without any doubt, enterprise mobility enablement has become a high-priority…

An API is a set of protocols with which a developer can interface with a given system or platform. Late last year Microsoft released the long awaited APIs for Office 365, finally giving developers a standard way to customize the popular collaboration platform. See here for a good overview from the MSDN site on the various ways you can now develop for the Office 365 platform.

For example, it is possible to write an HTML5 and…

SharePoint is about the integration of multiple technologies and purposes - it enables the creation of intranet portals, provides content and document management, enterprise search, business intelligence, and last, but not least, drives social collaboration. All seamlessly integrated inside the SharePoint platform, helping companies do their jobs more efficiently.

In an era of communication and instant access to information…

Have you ever spent your hard earned cash on a pair of shoes, a new tablet or a designer jacket, only to walk past the same store a month later and see the item in the half-price sale? If only someone had told you about the upcoming sale! Investing in Microsoft products is not dissimilar and having an idea of the corporation’s Roadmap can help you avoid those “if only I’d known” moments.

Gathering…

Drawing analogies between running a SharePoint solution and a city, a football team or a business underlines how important the roles of testers, administrators and designers are day to day. Without rules, a city will descend into chaos; the law of the jungle will rule. Without a referee, football teams commit fouls with impunity, and without managers and structured departments, businesses lose sight of goals and purpose…

It has been 3 years since the last release of the On-Premises version of SharePoint; Microsoft released SharePoint 2013 in February of that year. Since then a lot of things have changed, especially around Office 365. Microsoft hinted a couple of times, especially via their conferences, that the next version might be the last version released On-Premises. Microsoft has recently been putting the focus on their cloud product…

In the past, the vast majority of businesses were centralized with smaller branch offices spread around the country or world. While this management model has not been fully replaced, a global trend towards remote and distance working is undeniable.

Mobile and distant working began with the Enterprise IT revolution in the 1970s. Cellular phones later allowed employees to be contacted anywhere, email pushed this communication…

As work increasingly moves away from the static environment of the office to a more mobile and flexible place, we’ve seen a growing need for tools which make editing documents more convenient when not at the desktop. In this post we’ll be looking at a new app which aims to respond to the needs of the modern, hyper-connected worker.

The office at your fingertips

Infragistics ReportPlus is a mobile application…