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A Case Study in Translating Business Needs Into SharePoint Information Architecture

I got a good com­ment on my post about the folder-less Share­Point par­a­digm, and I thought it would be a good oppor­tu­nity to show how to trans­late busi­ness needs and con­tent analy­sis into busi­ness require­ments that can then be trans­lated into an infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture. I decided to speak with the com­menter over the phone, and I asked him some sim­ple questions. Give me 2–3 exam­ples of busi­ness crit­i­cal doc­u­ments you want into SharePoint. Explain to me what the doc­u­ment is, how it’s used, and who is invested in the document. After get­ting a descrip­tion I probed for poten­tial meta­data to use in cat­e­go­riz­ing (read more...)

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Apple Becoming A Viable Enterprise Solution

Fresh on the heels of yesterday’s keynote at the World­wide Devel­oper Con­fer­ence Apple show­cased their new sup­port of Microsoft Exchange 2007 in the pro­duc­tiv­ity apps (Mail, iCal, Address Book) for their forth­com­ing OS release Snow Leop­ard. Apple, not Microsoft, is the only oper­at­ing sys­tem to offer free Exchange sup­port (in Win­dows you have to buy Out­look). They also didn’t slouch on the fea­tures available. Sync­ing Notes, Tasks, and mail. Fold­ers included in Mail interface. Free/busy sup­port in iCal. Room book­ing sup­port in iCal. Search­ing the GAL from Address Book. Includes con­tact groups. There has always been Microsoft Entourage, but only this year did they beta Entourage con­nect­ing with Exchange 2007 (read more...)

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Barriers to SharePoint Adoption

In my short time as a Share­Point con­sul­tant I’ve come across three major bar­ri­ers to imple­ment­ing the solu­tion. Mind you, this isn’t only rel­e­gated Share­Point but any tool, sys­tem, or process imple­mented in the enter­prise. While each of them could vary in degree they all exist in some form of a Share­Point implementation. Polit­i­cal Barriers Pol­i­tics are often the first road block encoun­tered when bring­ing a tool like Share­Point into the enter­prise. Some­one becomes sold on the plat­form usu­ally in IT but sold to exec­u­tives shortly after­ward, and then the back­lash begins. The first to bring argu­ment against the tech­nol­ogy are those (read more...)

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