This article in our Sharelus vs SharePoint comparison series explores the driving force behind a transformational enterprise mobility solution. A mobility solution that harnesses the power of data and capture and sharing are the keys to streamlining your dai…
When determining the right mobile solution for your business, there are several considerations to make, including to ensure end user adoption and deployment success. In our last blog, we gave a brief overview of the major items to consider when moving towards…
Organizations that implement robust mobility solutions can transform mobile teams and gain a strategic and competitive advantage. This transformation hinges on both the end user adoption of the mobility solution and the promise of productivity that the…
Your business probably uses SharePoint; Microsoft estimates that more than 250,000 organizations and over 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies have SharePoint as part of Office 365. But is your company really getting the most out of it? Mobility is increasingly…
When insurance companies respond to catastrophic disasters, that work happens in the field, not in a corporate office. In the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, insurers have set up mobile claims centers near the affected areas, piloted drones to…
More and more, business employees expect the same convenient and reliable mobile experience from their enterprise systems that they get from popular consumer apps and services. This can mean an added burden for enterprise IT teams — but it doesn’t have…
Today, business mobility is mainstream. Mobile devices have enabled the workforce to break free of the office environment; workers can check email or join team calls from the doctor’s waiting room, the after-school pickup line, or the living room couch…
Enterprises are swimming in more content than ever before, in the form of documents, customer records, workflows, images, and much more. But, paradoxically, adding more content doesn’t automatically mean adding more value.
Content is only valuable…
A utility that has nearly 18,000 employees serving nearly 5.4 million customers across 11 states needs to be able to connect a vast number of field employees to the information and resources they need from any location. But the SharePoint system that…
In the previous post in this series, “One Place to Find Everything,” I talked about how SharePlus Enterprise can help you easily locate all your content no matter where it resides — in your SharePoint system, in your network file shares, or in online…
Does your enterprise network fully support your mobile strategy? We speak with lots of customers who haven’t yet taken the steps to make their enterprise assets truly mobile on any device. We also speak with some who use the SharePoint app, but haven…
If you plan to be in the NYC area at 6PM on Tuesday, October 6th and you're interested in SharePoint Mobile Development Frameworks, be sure to stop by Mobile Night at the New York City Enterprise Collaboration Meetup at the Microsoft Office!
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Are you or your team looking for a secure way to access SharePoint on your mobile devices? In this webinar, discover how MobileIron and Infragistics can help you deliver an optimized SharePoint experience that exceeds enterprise security requirements…
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…
Collaboration can be defined as the action of working with someone to produce something. And it’s interesting to know that it’s quite a new word:
As the above graph shows, until 1880 no one collaborated (although it might just be that they…
Roles today have evolved — there are not as many assembly line workers, but the information worker is here to stay. As businesses race to become digital, team collaboration is more critical than ever before.
Sales and marketing teams, field service…
From the food we eat and the way we travel to the way we spend our money, mobile apps have changed the way we interact with the world around us. Since the launch of Apple’s app store back in 2008, developers have built a huge number of tools and…
Do you think Twitter is all about procrastination? You’d be wrong. Following a wide range of Twitter users, sourcing information from a variety of accounts and really engaging with posts can have considerable benefits for your professional life.…
Microsoft SharePoint is one of the most effective tools for helping companies enhance employee collaboration by providing centralized access to mission-critical data. Some firms, however, overlook a key aspect of SharePoint regarding the actual context…
Despite all the hoopla and brouhaha surrounding cloud services, the truth is that storing data in cloud services generally means saving information online using backup services. And while cloud services are very useful, businesses are aware of the perils…
Are you reading this article on a phone, portable device, or any other interface that isn’t your home or workplace PC? If so, you’re far from a minority; an increasing amount of Internet traffic is being generated from non-desktop devices. And we’re doing…
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…
In January 2014, Microsoft announced that InfoPath 2013 would be the final version of its form building tool. According to Microsoft, industry trends and feedback from customers and partners made it clear that today’s businesses demand an intelligent…
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…
Since its earliest iterations, SharePoint always focused on providing companies with specific utilities. It began by offering collaborative capabilities for those looking to move beyond network shares and evolved into a product that catered for content…