Tools and Tips for Maximizing SharePoint Functionality
January 11, 2012
There is a large chunk of the IT blogosphere devoted to SharePoint and enterprise, and a sizeable percentage of that is carved out for tips and tools to increase functionality. It makes sense. Enterprise is becoming a requirement, not just an option. Enterprise solutions, especially SharePoint, are massive creatures, requiring a lot of time and energy. Therefore, any tip or trick to get the most out of the system is of interest. The SharePoint Engine blog weighs in with, “7 Ways to Use SharePoint 2010 Effectively.”
The author writes:
The immense landscape that is SharePoint functionality is easy to lose track of. As a result, even those who don’t make major mistakes can still fall well short of taking full advantage of the platform. To help you as you try to milk this magnificent Microsoft system for all it’s worth, here are 7 simple ways you can use SharePoint to better your business.
The advice ranges from setting up mobile access to centralizing task locations. All these customization tips are smart, and will likely increase efficiency and retrieval. However, we wonder if a smarter solution exists, one that automatically implements these intuitive customization features, without having to spend the time to do the customization. Fabasoft Mindbreeze offers that type of enterprise solution. Read more about their enterprise solution.
Highly efficient enterprise search and specific connectors link together data sources in companies and organizations. They integrate the knowledge of different sections of a company into a uniform, linked whole . . . But an all-inclusive search is not everything. Creating relevant knowledge means processing data in a comprehensible form and utilizing relations between information objects. Data is sorted according to type and relevance.
SharePoint is created to be an infrastructure, a shell. Powerful, yes, but costly to customize. That’s why many organizations are turning to third party solutions, such as Mindbreeze, to bridge the gap with SharePoint. Mindbreeze in particular will serve as a standalone solution or as an addition to an already existing SharePoint infrastructure.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 11, 2012
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