What to do with SharePoint 2010?

SharePoint 2010 is released in its new Avatar with enhanced collaboration and enterprise content management features, which enables, an organization to connect and empower people through formal and informal business communities, within the company and beyond, and to manage content effectively throughout the information lifecycle. In short, it is a strategic platform for enterprise for delivering applications, team-working and workflow throughout the organization.

Wanted - A taxonomy for the inventory

 A Production Planner sometimes spends his day managing bucket loads of emails, faxes, telephone calls and emails getting his suppliers to share their information, align their inventory as well as production targets to align to his demand. In fact identifying what the inventory means to different stakeholders is not different from the story of six blind men and the elephant – The inventory like the fabled elephant for each one has a different meaning.

How do you choose - Collaboration and ECM Solutions

Collaboration, Portals, Social Networking (SN), Document Management (DM), Content Management (CM), Web Content Management (WCM) and Record Management (RM), Digital Assets Management (DAM) – these are the elements and components of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and we hear these key words day-in-day-out. It’s very incomprehensible to align and prioritize these in proper order for end-user usage, adoption and design enterprise solutions to achieve business goals.

Google Wave’s Impact on the Enterprise Content Management Space

 Google Wave has the potential to dramatically alter the Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market spaces. Traditional ECM vendors may end up offering Google Wave plug-in’s to make collaboration more effective. Also, vendors who have been thriving on providing excellent collaboration tools are likely to feel a strong threat from a product that comes free and backed by the Google brand.

 

Sustaining Competitive Advantage Of Divested Business

Market realities and increased competition have pressurized corporations to revisit their priorities and operational strategies. Divesting non-core business units that no longer fit strategic goals and selling under-performing units can be a viable means to resolve pressing business issues at hand. However, separating a business unit (BU) from its parent organization is wrought with tremendous IT challenges for both the parent as well as the BU being divested. Here are a few observations from the perspective of business unit(s) that are being divested to ensure they safeguard the competitive advantage in the face of divestiture.

 

Cloud Computing – Why should we adopt it

“Cloud Computing” – it is becoming one of the buzz word; everyone is talking about it or writing about it. Some of them would like to understand it, use it, feel it and experience the Cloud phenomena.  In a broader sense, it’s an umbrella of services includes – SaaS, Virtualization (Infrastructure) and Cloud Platform itself i.e. Application based frameworks. It’s very puzzling to know that, Search engines (like Google) lists thousands of definitions for the cloud computing.

 

Cloud Computing – Microsoft way

You recognise the buzz when you hear it, let’s take a case of “Cloud computing”, lot of hype and buzz all ready created. So you must be wondering what Microsoft is doing about it? Well, their answer is Azure.

High-Performance Workplace (HPW), How Do We Achieve It?

HPW: High-Performance-Workplace solutions offered by Office SharePoint 2007 Server can improve and transform the way employees interact and work together. To ensure optimal success, one need to include mobile/wireless and collaboration technologies, business processes, and all work / environments related components.

Establishing and running Managed Services - Challenges that occupy the CIOs mind

The CIO and the IT leadership team make critical decisions in defining the scope of Managed Servicesand selection of a suitable vendor to drive the delivery of services.

Given the nature of the competitive environment, vendors inundate the CIOs mind with highly differentiated services including myriad options for the commercial aspects and design of the managed services model.  It is but expected that a mature end-to-end service proposition is indeed a possibility.

Podcast: Operational Cost Transformation in AMS services

In this Podcast, Prashant discusses the various cost transformation levers in Application Management Services and provides and insight into how these are applied to AMS engagements. Learn how AMS services can be designed to leverage economic benefits on an ongoing basis using the cost transformation roadmap.

Prashant Shirgur, Sr Solution Architect & Head- Managed Services, Enterprise Applications

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