SharePoint Q & A With Worldwide Community Experts
January 6, 2012
The FUMSI Forum picked up the SharePoint StackExchange, a Q & A site directed at SharePoint users and enthusiasts.
The discussion pointed out:
One of a network of user-driven Q&A sites, the SharePoint edition of the StackExchange help forum allows you to ask, answer and search for previous questions about customising your implementation of the software.
The StackExchange serves as an innovative message board, allowing SharePoint users to discuss common pains and solutions alike. With a broad and highly customizable enterprise infrastructure like SharePoint, attention to detail is likely to come from other users instead of from Microsoft.
This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for SharePoint enthusiasts. It’s 100% free, no registration required.
While message board and forums like this are a lifeline for SharePoint users, we think third party solutions might offer an opportunity to avoid some of the pitfalls of SharePoint in the first place. Fabasoft Mindbreeze offers an enterprise implementation that either stands alone or supports an existing SharePoint infrastructure.
Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise finds every scrap of information within a very short time, whether document, contract, note, e-mail or calendar entry, in intranet or internet, person- or text-related. The software solution finds all required information, regardless of source, for its users. Get a comprehensive overview of corporate knowledge in seconds without redundancy or loss of data. 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.
Fabasoft Mindbreeze is widely touted for its intuitive solution, one that keeps the user from worrying about customization. Updates are seamlessly and automatically rolled out on a regular basis. So while SharePoint is fast becoming an essential tool for organizations, we think a third party solution is just as essential for ensuring that SharePoint users get the efficiency and relevancy they are seeking.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 6, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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January 6, 2012
Perfection in the Details: Enterprise Search Solutions with SharePoint IVP
January 5, 2012
Today we want to focus on a company that offers a great enterprise search solution, one that can stand alone or work alongside the more common SharePoint infrastructure. Fabasoft Mindbreeze is operated out of Austria. Having won the KM World Trendsetting Product of the Year four years in a row, Fabasoft is now getting positive attention from Gartner and its MarketScope Report.
The Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise Winter 2012 Release is now available for download.
Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise is built on 3 pillars: Simplicity, speed, efficiency. The Fabasoft Mindbreeze 2012 Winter Release stands under the motto ‘quicker to the point.’ Perfection is the sum of the details.
Check out the short and helpful YouTube tutorial videos embedded in the page. Each demonstrates a new feature added to the Winter 2012 Release. One particularly useful feature, especially for those already invested in a SharePoint installation, is the additional efficiency added to the SharePoint connector feature.
A survey by German market analysts has shown that practically every second company uses SharePoint. However, in SharePoint only one facet of a company’s knowledge can be presented. The Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise 2012 Winter Release puts an end to this shortcoming.
The video tutorial for this new SharePoint feature shows how easy it is to retrieve search results from every facet of an organization’s network, not just the SharePoint infrastructure. Results are not only efficiently retrieved, but sorted and classified. Retrieve an email address? Just click on the address for immediate embedded usability, unlike many other enterprise solutions that only retrieve. No more cut and paste.
Updates such as this one are rolled out monthly for the cloud and quarterly for enterprise customers. Updates are seamless and require no additional customization. If your organization is seeking an intuitive enterprise search solution, Fabasoft Mindbreeze is worth your attention.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 5, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: The Balancing Act of Sharepoint and Taxonomy Development
January 5, 2012
SharePoint Troubleshooting Videos for the Enterprise Weary
January 4, 2012
The GetThePoint Blog is highlighting a series of troubleshooting videos being offered by Microsoft regarding SharePoint and its well-publicized list of common pain points.
As the write-up expresses:
Microsoft’s Technical Readiness team has been building a collection of what they call ‘Break/Fix’ videos that address specific technical issues when using Office 365 . . . The Microsoft SharePoint End-user Content team is investigating creating similar quick videos that address specific pain points for SharePoint, and would apply to both O365 online and on-premises versions.
While we understand the need for online assistance, especially in terms of quick fixes, the real issue lies in the fact that so many of these fixes are needed in the first place. SharePoint has never promised to be a complete solution, an out-of-the-box application that needs no further tweaking. However, the extent to which SharePoint has to be customized and manipulated leads us to believe that a third-party solution might be a less painful enterprise option.
A third party solution worth a second look is Fabasoft Mindbreeze and its suite of solutions. Receiving the KM World Trendsetting Product Award for the fourth consecutive year in 2011, Mindbreeze is often lauded for its ability to be customized, but also extremely efficient out-of-the-box.
“Fabasoft Mindbreeze Appliance as a pre-packaged solution (hardware and software) offers a quick and easy way to enjoy a high-end enterprise search solution out-of-the-box. The product is ready to use within in a very short timeframe. ‘We make it easy for our customers. We deliver the ready-to-run appliance and configure it together with the customer via an online meeting. Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise is then ready for use.’ – Daniel Fallmann describes some of the advantages of the solution.”
Fabasoft Mindbreeze works as a standalone enterprise solution, or can be used to enhance an existing SharePoint infrastructure through the Mindbreeze Connectors offerings.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 4, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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January 4, 2012
Common Pain in SharePoint
January 3, 2012
SharePoint brings just as much pain as it does joy in many circumstances. But one does not have to look too hard to realize how common certain SharePoint pain points are in the enterprise realm. The solutions to these SharePoint issues can be just as painful as the issues themselves. Consultants and third-party firms do not always live up to their promises. A SharePoint blogger gives us his take in, “SharePoint – To the Pain!”
As he points out:
One of the pains many of us have experienced is the sting of inexperienced SharePoint ‘experts.’ These people are giving bad advice in their blogs. These people are in ‘expert’ SharePoint firms charging us an arm and a leg and doing bad work. It’s rampant, and I’ve experienced it as a full time employee working for a large corporation paying a HUGE amount for SharePoint ‘experts’ who were breaking things and had NO CLUE what they were doing.
We want to emphasize that not all SharePoint experts and consulting firms are bad. The opinion above is merely that of the blogger. However, a bit of caution is a good rule of thumb when choosing an outside party to assist in SharePoint solutions. SharePoint is not an out-of-the-box enterprise solution. In order to be effective and efficient, third party solutions should be added onto an existing SharePoint framework.
This is where we think an option like Fabasoft Mindbreeze is smart. Offering an entire suite of solutions, Mindbreeze is neither excessive in cost nor disappointing in performance. Their Connectors offerings allow Mindbreeze to work alongside SharePoint, Exchange, and a variety of other applications. The Mindbreeze enterprise solution can stand alone or improve an already existing enterprise infrastructure.
As the optimum search and information access solution, Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise facilitates the comprehensive incorporation of all electronic data repositories. Data sources and storage systems are connected to Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise via Fabasoft Mindbreeze Connectors.
While a bit of caution is necessary, there are good third party SharePoint solutions out there. Find one that works for you and enjoy the ease and efficiency that it can offer.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 3, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Continuous Integration May Solve Your SharePoint Team Project Problems
January 3, 2012
New Book on using SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight
January 2, 2012
While it is now too late for Christmas, a new book out by Bob German and Paul Stubbs gets a positive review from Andrew Connell, the Microsoft Developer with a focus on SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight is discussed in Connell’s “Great Resource for SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight.”
Connell’s review:
Are you interested in looking for a good resource on doing SharePoint 2010 or Silverlight development with both tools? This is the book for you. Bob & Paul, the two best people to write this book with their deep experience in both technologies, have done a fantastic job in starting with primers on both technologies and then diving in deep on doing various things you’d want to accomplish with both SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight.
The book includes a discussion on both SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight development as well as guidance for setting up your environment and building custom applications. Connell does provide the forward to the new publication, but his knowledge on the topic points to this being a good resource for interested parties.
However, if you do not have the time to read right now while you’re focused on adding value and efficiency to your business information, rely on experts at Fabasoft Mindbreeze. Their suite of solutions provides intuitive access for the right people with the right information at the right time.
Here you can read about their capabilities:
Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise offers unified information access to enterprise and cloud resources. It combines and links the information. Information can be grouped and classified. A user can scan the results using search tabs and categories and find a relevant document without having to click through a list of links. The information’s semantic context is recognized and depicted, and navigation elements for drill down are provided; one click and the preview of any result is available. Fabasoft Mindbreeze provides a 360 degree view of your business, customers, competitors, and more.
Find what works for you with Fabasoft Mindbreeze.
Philip West, January 2, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Make Your SharePoint Experience Easier with Shorter URLs
January 2, 2012
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