Since 2001 SharePoint has been one of the key industry players when it comes to document management, records management, and intranets. Its widespread popularity has made it one of Microsoft’s most successful products yet. To put this success in perspective, in terms of revenue Microsoft earns more money with SharePoint than it does with Windows.

However, from a technological point of view, a lot of things have…

Why as C-Level staff do we follow financial news? Perhaps the most obvious reason is that without staying up to date with the market, you’re bound to miss opportunities, new trends and threats from your competitors. In the same way, it’s simply best practice to use your company’s internally held data to make better decisions, spot patterns and exploit new niches. Knowing what’s going on across your organization will inform…

The list is potentially one of the oldest forms of personal organization. Before the days when nearly a third of humanity had smartphones, a list would consist of a few hand-written lines on a piece of scrap paper: groceries, things-to-do etc. Nowadays, a ‘list’ can take on any number of different digital forms. SharePoint, back in 2001, was ahead of the curve and made lists one of its key data structures when building…

SharePoint is undoubtedly one of the world’s most important and widespread enterprise productivity tools. However, Microsoft are, quite naturally, secretive about the actual value of the product. In today’s post, we'll be trying to discover that answer by taking a high-level overview of SharePoint’s growth and adoption worldwide. Furthermore, we'll be looking at how it is doing in terms of usage, market growth, revenue…

It’s not often we start a post like this, but, be prepared for disappointment: Gregory Hartley and Maryann Karinch claimed a couple of years back that you can become an expert in anything in just two hours. Does this mean you’ve been wasting your time attending SharePoint webinars, joining community forums, and reading blogs like...ours? We’re not convinced.

Mastering SharePoint takes years of dedication…

What was the best decision you ever made? Was it when you chose the University you’d study at? Was it the time you decided to change your career? Was it when you threw caution to wind and took that month long vacation?

The decisions we take can change our lives. Of course, not every decision will have an enormous impact on your long term happiness or success (Indian takeaway or Chinese takeaway?). However, the way…

A lack of mobility in today’s market could harm a business in many ways. Not being mobile might lead it to miss out on consumer solutions or result in missed business opportunities. As a result, enterprise mobility has become a must-have for modern organizations, delivering many successes and opportunities. Yet despite the advantages of mobility, security threats are fast evolving through malware sophistication

The term data usually refers to information which has been formatted in a particular way. As we know, data is a hugely valuable tool in the world of business and collaboration. It can exist in many forms, ranging from memories in our minds, to the mega and gigabytes we store in the electronic memories of our machines. We have even amassed data about data, which is more commonly referred to as Metadata and describes how…

In today’s world of Social in the Enterprise, the corporate intranet needs to be much more than a means of communicating information or line-of-business applications and documents to employees. Without a strategy from the outset to provide organic intranets that change and adapt to the users interacting with it, the only possible outcome is a static corporate intranet. You see, your corporate intranet can only become…

Most of our readers will understand the term ‘most valuable player’ or ‘MVP’ in relation to the best player during the NFL, MLS or NBA season. The Most Valuable Professional award is Microsoft’s own take on an MVP, and is given to the brightest minds in selected fields. An awardee would be heavily involved in the Microsoft community, having contributed substantially to all things Microsoft:…