The Heat in SharePoint Semantics May 11 to May 17
May 22, 2012
As always SharePoint Semantics points readers, search enthusiasts, and SharePoint end users to create a strategy to deploy SharePoint in a way that benefits everyone in your workplace.
In the post, “Prepare a Robust Adoption Strategy for Your SharePoint Deployment with 7 Tips,” writer Ken Toth stresses that people should be the primary focus of your SharePoint adoption strategy because no matter how great your technology it is the people that make your company succeed.
When describing the list of tips, Toth states:
“Executives need to be visible in their use of SharePoint. Next is getting buy-in from business users because they will drive your business requirements and you need to make sure the end results will meet their needs. Third, influence the organization by forming a core community of successful thought leaders and subject matter experts. Fourth, engage your users by selling the concept and establishing a meaningful connection to its value and benefits. Fifth, offer instructor-based and e-learning training. Sixth, market your SharePoint launch like you would a new product. Finally, promote participation by giving rewards and recognition.”
Looking towards the future, App development is a becoming a very integral part of ensuring a company’s ability to prosper in the 21st century. In order to stay current, SharePoint created the planned SharePoint App Marketplace. The post, “Furuknap Shares Insight on the Expected App Marketplace for SharePoint 2013”
In the referenced article, Furuknap explains:
“In short, the job ad is for a software developer who can help the Visual Studio team build the next generation of tools for SharePoint. The ad, however, reveals more information than I suspect Microsoft intended, and confirms the existence of the new App model, the App Marketplace, simplified HTML and JavaScript, and leveraging Windows Azure and SQL Azure for data, logic, and workflows.”
In the realm of SharePoint troubleshooting, the post “Understand the Difference Between SharePoint Publishing and Collaboration” does an excellent job of fleshing out the details of publishing and collaboration in a way that is easy to digest.
Toth concludes:
“One simple way to get encourage collaboration is by integrating a powerful search feature into your SharePoint system so users can efficiently find and reuse information. The experts at Smartlogic really understand the benefits of metadata. Here you can read about the comprehensive solution, “Tagging information with metadata significantly enhances its findability. Metadata also improves the consistency and quality of the output so content can be repurposed and reused slashing time it takes to create new content.”
Toth is absolutely right. Without third party solutions like Smartlogic, it would be much more difficult to really understand all of the intricacies that come with using SharePoint.
Jasmine Ashton, May 22, 2012
Infor Trailblazes the Future of Workplace Social Technology
May 12, 2012
Market Watch recently reported on a new enterprise software solution in the news release “Infor Delivers the Next Step in Software: Social Business Applications.”
According to the release, enterprise software provider Infor has announced the release of a new enterprise software solution that has the advanced capability to collaborate and communicate. What does this mean exactly?
The New Workspace works similarly to social networking tools and provides a similar interface. But it also works as a great asset to workplace decision making by providing role-based and contextual information from multiple applications in a single interface.
When describing the benefits of the New Workplace, the article states:
“Workspace also helps manufacturers address the critical problem of attracting and energizing young workers, particularly millennials. With Workspace, younger generations of workers are able to interact with one another in a way similar to their interpersonal interactions online. They can share and discuss their work with each other in an intuitive, familiar environment, helping to excite them and ignite the creative collaboration that fuels innovation.”
Due to rapid technological advancement it is imperative that companies adapt to meet the needs of the next generation of employees. This innovative new platform is an excellent step towards achieving this.
Jasmine Ashton, May 12, 2012
Will More Companies Leave Google Maps?
March 22, 2012
Here’s an interesting observation, or will be if this really does become a trend: Digital Trends asks, “Why Are Companies Defecting from Google Maps?” Writer Geoff Duncan notes that both Foursquare and Apple are reducing their usage of Google Maps. Two withdrawals, however, do not necessarily mean more are on the way. If more do follow, we will know that Duncan was on to something.
The article supplies a brief history of mapping and route-planning services, a field in which Google came from behind players like MapQuest to dominate the market. It helped that Google was giving away the service for free, and even helping third parties use it on their sites. That is Google’s usual path to domination, after all.
There is, however, a reason other companies have not followed Google’s lead in this direction: the mapping and routing process calls for a lot of man-hours, even in the digital age. Last autumn, even Google introduced a paid version. Duncan writes:
“Google first announced plans to begin monetizing Google Maps nearly a year ago, including a requirement that any new services forward display advertising in Google Maps along to their end users, so Google could start generating advertising revenue from the service. The hammer truly dropped in October 2011, when Google finally revealed pricing for Google Maps services. Lightweight usage was still free — subject to terms of service, of course. However, significant load volumes would begin to incur charges: basically, services and applications that generated more 25,000 map loads per day would be charged $40 to $10 for every additional 1,000 map loads. For folks using styled maps — the most intensive and customized option — the initial threshold is 2,500 maps per day.”
That’s a lot of maps, and the vast majority of sites using the service would remain un-charged. For behemoths like Foursquare and Apple, however, it seems that it may have made the difference; the trial period ended shortly before these companies (mostly) jumped ship. Only time will tell whether other Google users will follow their lead.
Stephen E. Arnold, March 22, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com <http://www.pandia.com/enterprise-search>
AppRapids Conference: Sharing Insights in the Digital Field
February 27, 2012
We at Beyond Search are happy to announce that registration is now open for the first AppRapids conference March 28, 2012, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Apprapids is an enterprise information service that focuses on app-related issues and is sponsored by PolySpot. The one-day conference will focus on how apps are transforming the business and digital worlds. The conference will allow attendees and speakers to interact to share insights in the field.
The press release, “Apps are Where it’s at: Register Now for AppRapids Conference,” gives us more information on the collaborative event. We learn:
“Apps have been integrated into every aspect of life on both personal and professional levels. However, a lack of knowledge, and consequently agency, exists among many app users and potential app creators. Apps have roots in the past, are impacting the present, and will construct the future. Conference sessions will range from planning and development to implementation and business implications. Speakers will provide details of real-life use cases, best practices and lessons learned.”
Keynote speakers include Craig James, a partner in CatStrat; Ric Manning, a technology columnist at the Louisville Courier-Journal; and Doyle Friskney, Chief Technology Officer and Associate Vice President at University of Kentucky. Conference sponsors include: Arnold IT, PolySpot, WorkShop, the Creative Workplace, and Interactive Media Lab.
To register and view the schedule and speaker information, head over to http://www.apprapids.com/conference-registration/.
Andrea Hayden, February 27, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
AppRapids Conference: Sharing Insights in the Digital Field
February 23, 2012
We at Beyond Search are happy to announce that registration is now open for the first AppRapids conference March 28, 2012, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Apprapids is an enterprise information service that focuses on app-related issues and is sponsored by PolySpot. The one-day conference will focus on how apps are transforming the business and digital worlds. The conference will allow attendees and speakers to interact to share insights in the field.
The press release, “Apps are Where it’s at: Register Now for AppRapids Conference,” gives us more information on the collaborative event.
We learn:
“Apps have been integrated into every aspect of life on both personal and professional levels. However, a lack of knowledge, and consequently agency, exists among many app users and potential app creators. Apps have roots in the past, are impacting the present, and will construct the future. Conference sessions will range from planning and development to implementation and business implications. Speakers will provide details of real-life use cases, best practices and lessons learned.”
Keynote speakers include Craig James, a partner in CatStrat; Ric Manning, a technology columnist at the Louisville Courier-Journal; and Doyle Friskney, Associate Vice President of Information Technology at University of Kentucky. Conference sponsors include: Arnold IT, PolySpot, WorkShop, the Creative Workplace, and Interactive Media Lab.
To register and view the schedule and speaker information, head over to http://www.apprapids.com/
Andrea Hayden, February 23, 2012
Multicore: No Silver Bullet for Lousy Code
February 17, 2012
At one time engineers thought that throwing more cores at a bottleneck would solve the problem. They were wrong. ExtremeTech examines “The Death of CPU Scaling: from One Core to Many—and Why We’re Still Stuck.”
The very informative article traces computer processor development from the time CPU scaling ceased to be feasible and manufacturers began multiplying their cores in 2004. Writer Joel Hruska does a good job explaining Moore’s law, Dennard scaling, and Amdahl’s law and how each impacts the growth of processing power. It also details the reasons multiple cores cannot revive the exponential improvements processors enjoyed during the 1990s. (I like the term “dark silicon.” Sounds like a super villain.)
The write up quotes a recent report on dark silicon and multi-core devices:
Regardless of chip organization and topology, multicore scaling is power limited to a degree not widely appreciated by the computing community…. Given the low performance returns…adding more cores will not provide sufficient benefit to justify continued process scaling…. A new driver of transistor utility must be found, or the economics of process scaling will break and Moore’s Law will end well before we hit final manufacturing limits.
That sounds pretty dire, though Hruska predicts some slow scaling progress will continue for several years. After that, who knows? To run fast, do we now think assembler?
Cynthia Murrell, February 17, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Apps Replacing Middleware for Many Companies
February 17, 2012
Here’s the progression for information access. Ask someone. Use Dialog’s or SDC’s command line interface. Surf the Web. Use an app.
Information Management’s Jim Ericson recently reported on Middleware vendors moving into app development in the article “Apps Overtaking Middleware.”
According to the article, the predicted “suites of heterogeneous software assembling like Transformer robots to tackle the big adversaries of enterprise processing,” have not proven themselves to be accurate. Rather, modern day apps and analytics are beginning to court the data, rather than the other way around.
Vendors are beginning to snatch up the analytics apps like hot cakes. Andrew Bartels of Forrester Research elaborates:
IBM is a poster child for the classic Middleware vendor moving aggressively and heavily into applications because they see that is where the action is. Specifically, that means “analytical solutions” with a tighter focus on marketing, buying, selling and servicing activities.
While this is an interesting take on the issue, we believe that Ericson does not consider the issue of app fatigue or the inefficiency of providing limited functionality to professionals who have changing information requirements.
Are online customers making more informed decisions? I prefer not to comment on that.
Jasmine Ashton, February 12, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Chomp Takes App Search to the Next Level
January 31, 2012
As the app business is exploding in growth with over a billion app downloads a month a new service has been created by some of the Silicon Valley’s greatest minds and investors. The article, Chomp Leads in App Search During Move to ‘Appification’, on Infotech News, praises the young company for leading the masses in the ‘appification’ of the world.
Chomp, created in 2009, as an answer to the growing problem of app search provides an open source mobile app search for all the apps available to mobile customers on both the iOS and Android OS. Over the last few years as better developers have been incorporated into the company more precise searches are being conducted.
With this technology Chomp is pioneering in search app advertising. Of this new angle on app search the article says,
The new program, which is currently in private beta, allows developers for the first time, to bid on keywords or phrases which will deliver their ads when uses search on those terms within an app search engine. Chomp Search Ads is the only way to match app ads to the most relevant potential customer, resulting in quality ad matching for both the advertiser and the consumer.
As the app industry continues to grow and more and more app developers are making apps available on multiple operating systems the need for the regular Smartphone user to be able to search efficiently increases. Thanks to services like those offered by Chomp we will undoubtedly see an increase in the applications of such technology like the targeted advertising.
Catherine Lamsfuss, January 31, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Inforbix Offers Demo for New iPad App
January 20, 2012
Recently we reported on the company Inforbix and their upcoming new application for iPad users which will allow employees access to company documents and files from any i-device. This ingenious technological marvel is a result of a growing demand within the workforce to make company files more accessible and cloud technology. Inforbix, not satisfied with leaving good-enough alone has now introduced a demo for their new app. The article, How to test Inforbix on the web and on the iPad, on Inforbix’s website explains how companies considering the technology can experience the difference the cloud can make.
“The technology behind how Inforbix demos work is exactly the same as what our customers deploy. With one exception. We use our own data-set to emulate what a typical Inforbix customer would be using. That’s it. Everything else is precisely the same: 1. The Demo Data provided by Inforbix is scanned and the meta-data collected is sent to the Inforbix cloud. 2. In the cloud, the meta-data is processed. 3. Users access the demo data either via a web browser…or if they downloaded the new Inforbix iPad app on the App Store and use the demo facility on it.”
Catherine Lamsfuss, January 20, 2012
Inforbix: A New Mobile Search Service for CAD and Product Data
January 16, 2012
Beyond Search recognizes that mobile applications are on the rise and people are moving their business to devices that are as flexible as they are. However, our team notices that this trend leaves a lot of people confused about how to deal with the excess of data that is available in the world of mobile applications. Search systems that navigate the chaos are often difficult to use or are simply nonexistent.
Boston-based Inforbix is responding to the rising issue. The company develops intelligent apps for CAD and product data access and is rolling out an iPad mobile application that allows customers to search engineering data anywhere, anytime.
Inforbix is a software company founded in 2012 that addresses the excess of product data within manufacturing companies. The company strives to develop software solutions and apps to address specific data trends and improve productivity. Inforbix is currently a cloud service accessed by web browser and assists customers in finding and sharing product data companywide.
Inforbix products work together with Product Data Management systems that may already be in place at organizations and connect companywide product data. Smaller companies without PDM systems can find an affordable alternative with Inforbix.
The new iPad app is the first mobile application release by Inforbix. The app is powered by InforBix’s semantic technology, which connects structured and unstructured related product data. This link allows users to find and access product data quickly on-the-go, while still providing correct and thorough information that is crucial to efficiency and productivity.
The service is cloud-based and requires no data migration or maintenance. The app can also access multiple file types and addresses searching and accessing product data, as well as other product data tasks such as organizing and presenting data patterns. The app is easy to use and requires no training or prior experience to use.
Chief Executive Officer Oleg Shilovistsky speaks on the topic of the mobile app release in the PR News Release:
“There’s lots of data everywhere. Customers are asking ‘How can I access it all with a single solution?’ Enter Inforbix, and the new iPad app will take Inforbix, a fresh new approach to find, engage with, and administer product data in manufacturing companies, a giant step forward in accessibility.”
The software is simple for companies to employ and is an intelligent solution to sorting through the endless product data that is available. The app can be demoed by pointing to http://www.inforbix.com/demo. Current Inforbix customers can already begin using the iPad app, which is available for free on the Apple App Store. New users can register with Inforbix to enable the app and begin accessing company product data.
At Beyond Search, we applaud companies that are focusing on creatively solving the issue of excess data and are impressed with Inforbix’s move to mobile. The future of technology is going fluid and companies need to remain accessible in the transition.
Andrea Hayden, January 16, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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