Sunday, January 17, 2010

Sharepoint Tools

The week starts off like any other week, your Monday is riddled with back to back meetings in and out of the office, your staff is telling you how much time they don't have to do the tasks you are assigning them and your boss has a new report that is due out the door by close of business today. This is pretty much the norm as far as Mondays go. There is one exception to this day that is different than the other days. This is the Monday that your Human Resources team has released its latest results of the company wide employee satisfaction surveys conducted last quarter. The survey identifies the need to improve internal data sharing and communication.

As you start pondering on what you can do to resolve this issue, a bell goes off in your memory. Last month you remember an article that you read on a plane trip to New York to visit clients. The article was all about Sharepoint server hosting. To this point in your career you never had to seek resources outside the organization that you have worked for. This has now come to an end. Your company has frozen all technological budgets and there is little or no chance of freeing up large amounts of funding for new hardware and new software. There is a budget that has some money to support technological need and innovation provided the correct business case is made by the requester. The section of the article that you remember reading "Sharepoint hosting 2007" seems to list out all of the advantages of this product and most importantly it highlighted that fact that centralized Sharepoint server hosting may be an invaluable tool that can aid managers of all businesses in improving staff productivity and moral.

This article also referenced that fact that this technology can be available in Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) or Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS). It compared the two and from your initial review it looked as though a Sharepoint MOSS dedicated server may be your immediate solution. This epiphany could not have come soon enough because as soon as you were done thinking the phone rings and it is your boss asking about your plans to improve communications in the office.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Sharepoint Development is Evolving a Great Tool For E-learning

Sharepoint is evolving at a rapid pace in the area of E-learning. Many companies and organizations are installing Microsoft based Sharepoint. They have employed many consultants to get more from this powerful application. Training is a area where sharepoint can excel well and that is what all corporate and public sector organizations need.

Purchase Order system people will always need training. E-Learning is going to be the latest buzz in training. Microsoft sees SharePoint as the ideal platform for E-Learning and have worked with a number of Partners to try to fill this gap. They developed the SLK (SharePoint Learning Kit), but even the most skilled SharePoint Performance Engineers would find it difficult to turn this into a working E-Learning system.

PC, internet connections and flash animated courses have made the E-Learning more appealing proposition, but still many companies have not taken the step forward. The reason for this Is mainly the cost as they need to buy expensive Information Management platforms like Knowledgebridge from Websoft. Sharing of information without interpreting with sensitive issues can be made possible by using Sharepoint software solution. Interactive with Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet directly from a Web browser through Excel services which are running on Office SharePoint 2007.

One of the greatest advantages of using Sharepoint software is connectivity. The software provides a solid platform for people to come and connect with each other in order to transfer information and data respectively.

Without implementing any kind of coding, users can use electronic forms that enable them to collect information and data pertaining to business requirements from customers, suppliers, partners via a web browser. This particular feature helps in overcoming redundancy and eliminates errors from the manual setup.

Sharing of information without interpreting with sensitive issues can be made possible by using Sharepoint software solution. Interactive with Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet directly from a Web browser through Excel services which are running on Office SharePoint 2007.