SharePoint 2010 is an amazingly rich, and powerful platform; it’s also frustratingly simple, and frequently underwhelms. It’s a testament to the Microsoft organization that SharePoint (in some shape or form, at some level of deployment, often limited to a work group or department) is present and running in more than two-thirds of all medium to [...]

It’s difficult study leading intranets without firsthand access to someone else’s intranet. However, our recent webinar, The Best Intranets from the Intranet Global Forum (with Kurt Sorensen, and myself), was a chance for a wide audience (300 organizations worldwide) to see how some of the very best intranets look, operate and achieve success. Great case [...]

“If you’re looking for a low threat, low risk introduction (to social media in the enterprise)… curation is a good place to start,” says Shel Holtz, speaking at The Social Intranet Summit in Vancouver (Surviving your intranet’s content crisis). “Curation is a relatively new trend online, and is absolutely vital to an organization; not an [...]

More than one-quarter of all organizations with an intranet use a CMS to power their intranet; most CMS solutions are commercial, brand name solutions. Preliminary data from The Social Intranet Study (855 respondents) reveals that while portal solutions such as WebSphere and SharePoint (also called a “development platform”) power one-third of intranets, but pure breed [...]

0savesSave SharePoint is a lot to a lot of organizations: a plethora of features, and hundreds of third-party applications make it an overwhelmingly robust platform, but overwhelmingly underwhelming for some. Web content management is a particular feature set that never fails to underwhelm publishers: greatly improved compared to the woefully inadequate MOSS 2007, but far [...]

Content management software (CMS) is a gigantic business. TechNavio’s analysts forecast that the global Enterprise Content Management (ECM) will reach $9.6 Billion in 2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is increased adoption of ECM in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The Enterprise Content Management market has also been witnessing need [...]

Portal or CMS? Social media or none? Commercial or open-source? What is the best technology for your intranet? Choosing the right technology for your intranet is difficult, to say the least. In fact, it can be downright daunting without help or prior experience doing it. There are thousands of solutions to choose from, and each [...]

(GUEST POST) Business content comes from all over. Not only do companies aggregate structured and unstructured information from various sources in traditional Intranets, but also they're confronted with the handling of other content types such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, forums, micro feeds and profile pages.   What's the name of the solution? The number of solutions [...]

(LAS VEGAS) Lest you be tingling with excitement about the potential enhancements to your less than spectacular content management system, there are two realities for SharePoint 2010: what is promised, and what is hoped for.   Those working with MOSS 2007 can be forgiven for the vacuous deflating sound from their proverbial balloons – those [...]

(LAS VEGAS, NV) If there was one, overarching message delivered by CEO Steve Ballmer in his keynote unveiling Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (at the annual SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas): SharePoint is no longer just an intranet solution, it’s been architected for all forms of web scenarios. “SharePoint is one of my favorite Microsoft products…. It’s [...]