Protected: Top SharePoint Tweeters
November 9, 2011
Protected: Learn about the New SharePoint 2010 Online for Office 365
November 8, 2011
Protected: Activating Keyword Search in SharePoint 2010
November 7, 2011
Protected: SharePoint 2010 Assemblies
November 4, 2011
SharePoint and Its Sometimes Interesting Costs
November 3, 2011
SharePoint is touted as the ultimate solution to content management and collaboration for enterprises. Microsoft, however, never discusses the costs associated with their software, except for how it’s cost effective and overtime will save your business money. But is that true? Redmondmag.com posted an enlightening article about the hidden costs involved in a SharePoint project, “Study: SharePoint Costs High Due to Inadequate Skills.”
A study conducted by the Azaleos Corp. discovered that the average cost to run SharePoint per user is $46/month. Using Microsoft Exchange proved to be cheaper at $15-15/month per user. SharePoint users also cited downtime as the most common problem.
“The downtime mostly stemmed from hardware errors or mistakes made by IT team members. Those problems caused average monthly management costs for SharePoint to double to around $90 per user per month. Almost half (43 percent) of study respondents pointed to “a lack of administrator skills, training, and knowledge as an inhibitor to efficiently leveraging SharePoint.”
SharePoint is still a young piece of software with a manifest destiny for its future. Its problems are many, but there are a lot of third party solutions to resolve them. At the end of the article, Azaleos Corp. advertises it’s AzaleosX app to help increase uptime.
We believe that you may want to take a close look at the cost effective search and content processing solution from SurfRay. Contain costs and improve user satisfaction with one snap in for SharePoint.
Whitney Grace, November 3, 2011
SurfRay
Protected: Is Microsoft SharePoint a Facebook Service?
November 2, 2011
Protected: Useful Claims-Based Authentication White Paper
October 28, 2011
SharePoint Search Best Practices
October 27, 2011
SharePoint search tips are of particular interest to us here at Beyond Search. We strive to sort the chafe from the wheat and sometimes turning to the source material is the best way to do that.
We noted a quite useful series of best practice articles from Microsoft’s own TechNet Web site. Navigate to “Best Practices for Search in SharePoint Server 2010.” The article explains the best methods for enterprise search and it applies to both SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Search Server 2010.
What we like about this article is that it outlines the best methods without beating around the bush. As with many SharePoint plans, there’s a simple to follow list:
- Plan the deployment
- Start with a well-configured infrastructure
- Manage access by using Windows security groups or by using role claims for forms-based authentication or authentication using a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) security token
- Defragment the search database
- Monitor SQL Server latency
- Test the crawling and querying subsystems after you change any configuration or apply updates
- Review the antivirus policy.
Each step is given its own section with additional information that goes into further detail about how to deploy the ideas.
What we noted about this article is that it is an official Microsoft document.
We want to include our own best practice. When it comes to making findability brings smiles to SharePoint users’ faces, we rely on SurfRay Ontolica to deliver SharePoint 2010 search.
Whitney Grace, October 27, 2011
SurfRay
Protected: More Cheerleading for SharePoint Social Functions
October 26, 2011
D&B Rolls Out D&B Direct
October 19, 2011
After promising last August to help Salesforce build Data.com, a relational database management system, into a service that fills the gaps created by crowdsourcing, Dun & Bradstreet announced, on October 4, that they are building in a new direction, launching a Web Services API called D&B Direct.
D&B Direct is a new application programming interface which makes it possible to access D&B’s business information from any application or platform. The goal is to allow clients to use their own applications to utilize live, professionally researched data on the world’s businesses.
According to the ReadWrite Hack article, Dun & Bradstreet on the Value of Researched vs. Crowdsourced Data Mike Sabin, vice president of sales and marketing solutions for D&B said:
D&B has built out this infrastructure that allows us to identify companies, track them over time, link pieces of data to those companies, and put them in the broader context of their corporate hierarchies, so that you can see the entire picture. I think being able to use those things as ‘coat hangers,’ if you will, on which you can hang additional pieces of information, becomes very important with the coming explosion of data that everybody’s seeing down the pike.
Having applications that can make high value content available for decision makers is a pied piper offering. We still think this technology needs expert human analysts and information professionals to use those promising platforms.
Jasmine Ashton, October 19, 2011
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