SharePoint 2013: will be mobile and social

According ZDNET, Microsoft has announced 2 major steps for the deployment of its leading product which gives moren than $2 billion annually in revenues.

Microsoft is working on native mobile SharePoint-connected applications for Windows 8, Windows Phone and iOS, which will begin coming to market by early 2013, and has recently announced the integration of its newly-acquired Yammer…

 

SOURCES:

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-deliver-sharepoint-apps-for-windows-8-windows-phone-ios-starting-in-early-2013-7000007220/?s_cid=e589

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-details-its-roadmap-and-pricing-for-sharepoint-yammer-integration-7000007268/?s_cid=e589

 

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.

Read the full article at:

Tallapragada K, Chewning J, Kombo D, Ludwick B. Making SharePoint® Chemically Aware™. J Cheminform. 2012 Jan 12;4(1):1. Available from: http://www.jcheminf.com/content/4/1/1/abstract [Accessed 9th July 2012]

SharePoint 2010 do’s and don’ts (FUMSI)

70% of organisations in the Western world have adopted SharePoint. Is the organisation you work in one of those, or are you one of the 30% who are still considering whether SharePoint is a tool that you could use?

Read further: Mullan, James. SharePoint 2010 do’s and don’ts. FUMSI, 21st of February, 2012.

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/66603 

SharePoint for Life Sciences Companies: the ShareFest 2012 programme

The ShareFest Conference, sponsored by NextDocs, will happen in April 2012, in Philadelphia.

Programme was realeased. It includes conferences around:

- Clinical data at Astra-Zeneca

- DMS at Liquent

- GXP quality system at IDT biologika

- Electronic submission with LORENZ

- Regulatory compliance at Roche

- Clinical trials documentation at Sanofi

- and many others

http://sharefestconference.com/all-sessions

 

SharePoint: 2 curated pages

http://www.scoop.it/t/ms-sharepoint

http://www.scoop.it/t/sharepoint (French and English)

European SharePoint Conference

An impressive programme:

http://sharepointeurope.com/conferences/2011/conference-programme-at-a-glance.aspx

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

 

 

SharePoint in Fortune500

Microsoft is still claiming SharePoint Server as the fastest growing product in company history, which is very impressive coming from such a diversified software maker powerhouse.

According to Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) one in two corporations are now using SharePoint Server and in 22% of the companies, every employee uses this popular Microsoft collaboration tool.

SharePoint usage is widely spread due to its complex collaboration structure and its flexibility. From enterprise search, enterprise content management (ECM), Business Process Management, business intelligence, records management, archiving, Intranet/Extranet, file sharing to public-facing websites…

Top SharePoint web sites

 http://www.topsharepoint.com/topics is a directory of more than 1,600 sharepoint sites rated by readers.

Among them:
- Pfizer UK: http://www.pfizer.co.uk
- BMS:  http://www.bms.com/pages/default.aspx
- Library of Congress: http://myloc.gov/pages/default.aspx
- CILIP: http://www.cilip.org.uk/Pages/default.aspx
- Auckland libraries: http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/Pages/home.aspx
etc.