Category: Tools & Technologies

The many faces of SharePoint

Microsoft offers four different ways of getting SharePoint, depending on what works best for you or your organization: “In this edition of our Cool Content series, I want to recap on the many faces of SharePoint and how it’s being packaged for big businesses, small businesses, and home […]

Smooth Social Interaction With Automated Nagging

Craig suggests that automated nagging alerts can help stimulate people to action on things they should have done but haven’t got to yet. He calls these “Notification through Automated Governance” (NAG) 😉 “Nowadays there are systems I work with that send out automated nags about not getting information […]

Research In Motion

Research In Motion asked a third-party to formally and exhaustively test the security of its wireless email solution. The results were positive. “Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer Institute SIT) of Germany and Research In Motion today announced the successful completion of an in-depth security analysis performed […]

Martin White on SharePoint 2007 in 2009

Martin shares some observations about SharePoint 2007 activity, and sounds the warning bell for some customers: “At one meeting recently the European intranet manager of a $11billion company with one of the most widely recognised brands in the world said to me that they were looking forward to […]

Extending Team Concert to SharePoint Documents

Mainsoft released an integration between Rational Jazz — the team collaboration software development environment — and Microsoft SharePoint. “Now available, the Beta release of Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz: SharePoint Edition enables you to associate a document site to each of your Jazz teams, so developers will […]

CalConnect at Microsoft

The next CalConnect Interoperability Test Event is being held in February 2009 at Microsoft in Redmond. For a long time Microsoft wasn’t a member of CalConnect, but are now … and that bodes well for improved calendaring interoperability in the future. Michael’s hope: that the SharePoint team goes […]