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Yes, some employees are rejecting SharePoint
“SharePoint is unquestionably a success from a licensing perspective, but dig behind the firewall and the picture looks more chequered. For example in a uSamp survey last year, 80 percent of organizations using SharePoint said employees continue to share documents as email attachments. (…)
Even where SharePoint is used, people aren’t truly collaborating with it. Team sites are often really document graveyards where content is stored once collaboration has stopped. Other social features such as blogs and My Sites have very low adoption rates or just pockets of activity. Even celebrated case studies are not about widespread adoption but localized success stories. (…)
To a large extent this rejection is passive, i.e. it’s a failure to adopt born of inertia rather than tasting the SharePoint sprouts and then spitting them out. This comes from years of ingrained habits about what workplace collaboration is: email, attachments and network drives. That in itself is not SharePoint’s fault – Google Wave hit similar challenges, for example. (…)
However SharePoint doesn’t help either. It’s highly complex, and some of the collaboration patterns are quite sophisticated, such as metadata, versioning and workflow. It makes it hard to selectively switch these elements off so that people can learn progressively. Moreover, the user interface is particularly unpleasant. It’s fiddly and lacks the visual appeal of modern websites. (…)
None of these issues are insurmountable…
Read further:
Are employees rejecting SharePoint? Melcrum, Available for free until 14th of September 2012 from:
https://www.melcrum.com/research/harness-digital-technologies/are-employees-rejecting-sharepoint
Searching by chemical structures into a SharePoint environment
Authors of this article have assembled different features to allow a user to search by chemical structures or reactions into the company content managed by SharePoint.
“The use of SharePoint® collaboration software for content management has become a critical part of today’s drug discovery process. SharePoint 2010 software has laid a foundation which enables researchers to collaborate and search on various contents.
The amount of data generated during a transition of a single compound from preclinical discovery to commercialization can easily range in terabytes, thus there is a greater demand of a chemically aware search algorithm that supplements SharePoint which enables researchers to query for information in a more intuitive and effective way.
Thus by supplementing SharePoint with Chemically Aware™ features provides a great value to the pharmaceutical and biotech companies and makes drug discovery more efficient. Using several tools we have integrated SharePoint with chemical, compound, and reaction databases, thereby improving the traditional search engine capability and enhancing the user experience. (…)
CASP uses SharePoint software to run most of its processes, but to get the chemically rich features it uses tools like Accelrys JDraw and Pipeline Pilot to help render the chemical structure and help search documents with embedded chemical structures. Using the Accelrys Direct cartridge, one can perform various types of structure searches like Sub Structure similarity, Flex match, or exact structure similarity. One can also connect to the Pipeline Pilot protocol and retrieve information like IUPAC name, or any of the molecular properties in a SharePoint database list.
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Mendeley is “a serious player in the academic industry”
Financial and ideological backing from EUREKA Eurostars, an R&D initiative funded by the European Community and the UK’s Technology Strategy Board, has reportedly helped rapidly establish Mendeley as a serious player in the academic industry.
The Eurostars project brought together Mendeley with the Estonian Technology Competence Centre in Electronics-, Info- and Communication Technologies (ELIKO) and Austria’s Competence Centre for Knowledge Management (Know-Center). Building on their complementary fields of expertise, the three organisations collaborated with one another to produce a number of Web 2.0 services for researchers that operate efficiently at large scale. The services leverage the wisdom gained from crowdsourcing in combination with exploiting modern semantic technologies (e.g. Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to produce novel tools that provide researchers with information on the impact of their research. This is done in real time.
The resulting technological improvements and subsequent funding received from Eurostars and the UK Technology Strategy Board have allowed Mendeley to create a database of more than 225 million indexed documents. Mendeley has also signed up over 1.6 million users from across academia and industry world-wide. It has now reportedly become the largest crowd-sourced academic research database in the world.
EUREKA Eurostars is the first European funding and support programme specifically directed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working in R&D. Since 2009, the UK funding body, the Technology Strategy Board, has invested over £3 million into projects as part of the Eurostars programme.
Swets launches a smart manifesto for Mendeley
To support the launch of its Mendeley special edition, Swets has just released a subtile and very smart booklet that presents different challenges of the libraries in the digital age. It comes as well to define how social media have taken an important place into the research workflow.
“More and more students and researchers are turning to Mendeley to help facilitate their research. Mendeley’s unique, user-led research environment combines a powerful reference management tool with sophisticated social networking software. With more than 1.4 million active users, Mendeley has transformed the academic research landscape, creating new pathways for collaboration among students, professors and their peers around the world“.
A comparison table demonstrates how the collaborative and free tool Mendeley is equal or better than paying or free competitors (Endnote, Zotero, Refworks).
The white paper is free of charge:
Swets. White paper: Where is the library in the digital workflow of research? Research in the age of social media. 2012. 18 p.
http://www.swets.com//mendeley?sid=1215
SharePoint: 2 curated pages
Business Intelligence for SharePoint
A product review in VIP Report.
“The target customers of Intelligence Plaza are primarily decision-makers, top management, strategic planning, business development, sales and marketing, research and development and market intelligence professionals.
Intelligence Plaza aggregates information from RSS sources and search results. It does function as a content management system (CMS).
Intelligence Plaza (GIA, Finland) is very well integrated with SharePoint. Not only does it interface with SharePoint, it also has the ability to integrate a “lightweight” Intelligence Plaza interface into SharePoint.
Read more:
Brown, Scott. Focus on: Intelligence Plaza. VIP Magazine, Issue 94, September 2011. ISBN: 978-1-907594-85-4
http://web.freepint.com/go/shop/report/1907
EasyBib: an iPhone App
EasyBib, the web bibliography maker, announces the release on an app for iPhone.
Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations in seconds by scanning a book bar code or by typing the name of a book. Build and manage your works cited. Once done, email your citations and then export your citations to EasyBib.com’s popular bibliography management service.
Accessible on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/easybib/id436768184?mt=8
EasyBib:
http://www.infotoday.eu/Articles/News/Internet-Resources/Cr%c3%a8me-of-the-Web—EasyBib-74926.aspx
Confirmation: 2collab is over!
As expected since July 2010 (see http://scienceintelligence.wordpress.com/tag/2collab/), the Elsevier social bookmarking service will be discontinued as from April 15, 2011.
Elsevier advices to migrate data to Mendeley or to RefWorks.
http://www.2collab.com/warning/
Increase SharePoint adoption with an efficient Outlook
News tweeted by http://twitter.com/#!/crid
harmon.ie for SharePoint is an Outlook sidebar that brings SharePoint to every business user by providing easy, full-featured access to SharePoint from the convenience of the email client.
- Drag-and-drop access to SharePoint directly from Outlook
- Links to SP libraries (not more attached files)
- Manage and share your projects correspondance into SP
- Preview of your colleague profiles in Outlook
- …
http://harmon.ie/SharePoint/Product
Regulatory documentation management at Sanofi
Case study: NextDocs for SharePoint. (information provided by the Vendor)
The challenge for the company was the manual process of finding, capturing, reviewing, approving, and storing documents for regulatory agencies. There was no consistent process for managing this task, no central document repository, and no significant automation.
They began searching for a document management solution designed to meet the needs of Life Sciences companies. This solution needed to comply with recognized standards, had to be easy to use by employees in many locations, and had to fit in with the company’s IT strategy.
Sanofi Pasteur MSD deployed the NextDocs Document Management System. Using Microsoft SharePoint Server as a foundation, the NextDocs solution provides a powerful document management, workflow, and collaboration solution that meets FDA 21 CFR Part 11 requirements.
Sanofi Pasteur MSD executives wanted a single solution that would provide company-wide regulatory compliant document management. That meant an FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliant solution and that authorized users could access easily and consistently, from any location around the world. Furthermore, no additional management or administrative burdens could be placed on the company’s small IT department.
Sanofi Pasteur MSD uses Microsoft SharePoint Server for internal sharing and collaboration, so it wanted to find a standards-compliant document management solution that would leverage that investment.
Using built-in workflow and collaboration tools, the NextDocs software automated key tasks, including:
• Routing documents for review
• Reminding signatories when they needed to review and approve documents
• Capturing digital signatures
• Saving the final approved versions of the documents in a standard PDF format
• Storing these documents in a secure yet easily accessible data repository
The NextDocs Regulatory Document Management Module is a complete solution for managing documentation needed for CTD/eCTD and related filings in a SharePoint based system.
NextDocs guides users through the production of submission ready documents by enforcing the use of CTD/eCTD required granularity, requiring templates, producing PDF renditions that meet the myriad of agency requirements, and collecting 21 CFR Part 11 compliant electronic signatures.
http://www.nextdocs.com/en-us/Case%20Studies/Sanofi-Pasteur-MSD-Case-Study.pdf
