SharePoint 15: what to expect

Speculation is running rampant, and Microsoft has yet to confirm anything, but expect the next version of SharePoint (SP) – dubbed SharePoint 15 – to be released by Spring 2013. We do know for certain, however, that MS has put significant money into redesigning the user interface – the look-and-feel –by a factor of four. […]

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Social intranet case study: PepsiCo Russia

Social intranet case study: PepsiCo Russia

PepsiCo Russia is the largest producer of soft drinks and snack products in Russia, and the CIS states (the former Soviet Union). A consolidated consumer brand company that includes Frito Lay, Gatorade, Quaker Oats, that recently integrated many regional food and juice brands and companies such as ZKZ Lebedyansky and Wimm-Bill-Dann. Of course, with many […]

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SharePoint for intranets

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 […]

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If you can afford it, SharePoint may be worth the "hassles"

“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 […]

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The social intranet becomes reality

Social media tools on the corporate intranet (intranet 2.0) became mainstream nearly two years ago.В  Preliminary results from The Social Intranet Survey (open now, prepared by Prescient Digital Media and sponsored by IABC) show that about two-thirds of organizations have at least one social media tool on their intranet. Shockingly, there are some pundits that […]

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