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 [...]

“SharePoint provides enough business value to outweigh the hassles,” states the latest Forrester report on SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Adoption, 2011) which reads less like an analysis and more akin to an ad for Microsoft. I truly question Forrester’s impartiality versus their eagerness to please the mother ship. However, the latter half of the report provides [...]

“It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead,” quips Miracle Max in the famed bedtime story-come-movie, The Princess Bride. “There’s a big difference between mostly dead, and all dead. Now, mostly dead: he’s slightly alive.” The enterprise portal industry is much like the supine Cary Elwes in the Princess Bride: mostly [...]

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 [...]

SharePoint is the best intranet for some, but not all. Portal solutions make sense for a very few organization, but a minority. Content management systems are often the best solution for those intranets that are primarily focused on communications and news. Other considerations also abound: open source? Social Media? Document management? CRM? Hosted? With thousands [...]

I bet you thought I was going to tell you what technology to buy (or download for free) to power your intranet 2.0? I wouldn’t know where to begin… There are now thousands of social media technology solutions in the market; a few hundred credible solutions; dozens of strong emerging vendors of note (social media [...]

1-     SharePoint will continue to dominate   All hail the king, SharePoint. SharePoint has become the single biggest, most pervasive intranet platform of all time (present in 50 – 60% of all medium to large-size organizations). While SharePoint is still minimally used for department and team level document sharing and collaboration, more organizations are looking [...]

(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 [...]