SharePoint might be the steak… but partners are the sizzle

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I was reading Christian Buckley’s blog post, SharePoint wins with the ECM Ecosystem, and I think I got a little confused, I started to write a comment to his post and that comment sorta became a po... read more

A very valuable review as we head towards SharePoint 2013

Thank-you once again AIIM for your effort and accuracy in helping the broader world of information managers see the Big Picture around SharePoint.  Of course this thanks is directed towards David J... read more

SharePoint in the Cloud and On-Premises: One of these things is not like the other

Recently Google announced the acquisition of QuickOffice - a “Cloud” based office productivity solution known for its ability to provide better than average Microsoft Office file format support and... read more

Welcome to the club SharePoint (Club ECM)

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It was about six months ago when a friend of mine from Microsoft told me a story where he had been in a room with all of the established ECM solution vendors as well as some of the newer Cloud file... read more

Governance, now so hip it hurts... two SharePoint experts and an innocent bystander

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I am a firm believer in the rule of 3, and after reading both Christian Buckley and Nick Inglis’s recent posts to The AIIM SharePoint blog I couldn’t help but chime in on this fascinating topic (pr... read more

I am Dedicated to SharePoint, so why am I only getting Standard love?

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Sadly, and I sincerely apologize to the three people who follow my AIIM Blog, my last post was about six months ago and discussed a now old (comparatively and when measured in Web time) technology ... read more

Is BPOS for SharePoint ready for Primetime?

I was in the midst of research around BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) when I saw fellow AIIM SharePoint blogger Rich Blank’s post on Microsoft’s online services offerings and thought, I g... read more

Cutting through the BS around EBS and RBS

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Okay, I’ll do it.  I’ll deal with the elephant in the server room.  I will try, at the very least, to get a dialogue going around the two APIs that Microsoft has created for the externalization of ... read more

The case for SharePoint Archiving: it’s never too soon to deal with old information

Do you have a lot of old content living in SharePoint?  You might be asking, “Really, what is old content?“ Okay, fair enough, do you have a lot of “inactive” content living in SharePoint? ... read more

SharePoint Fest... The name says it all

I was fortunate enough to both attend and present at SharePoint Fest in Denver a few weeks back.  Not surprisingly, the event was totally sold out and almost entirely populated with IT folks trying... read more

Migrating to SharePoint 2010? Know what you’re dealing with first!

I figure, if you’re reading any of the fine posts here in the AIIM SharePoint Community you likely have a pretty good idea of what SharePoint is, what it does, and maybe some of what it does not do... read more

How SharePoint stole my heart

I remember fondly when the romance began; it was the fall of 2001. I was an analyst and I had just been asked to review a white paper on Microsoft’s first portal solution, or at least that’s how we... read more