Last week James Milne began his examination of why failed SharePoint projects have become so commonplace they are referred to as another, ‘‘SharePoint Shipwreck’’. In Part II he examines some more strategies to avoid being sunk.
The Australian Department of Defence has undertaken field trials to deploy Microsoft SharePoint into their tactical theatre. The tests have specifically focused on deploying SharePoint within a low and unstable bandwidth environments and the initial results are extremely positive.
According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, the global e-discovery market was worth $US3.6 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach $US9.9 billion in 2017. In the overall global market, the US is expected to maintain its lead position in terms of revenue with 73% of global e-discovery market share in 2017.
By the end of this year 300,000 of Australia’s Catholic School students and 30,000 teachers will be using the Google Apps platform, under a program announced Catholic Education Network (CEnet).
FileBound Australia has signed a partnering agreement with The Information Management Group Pty Ltd (TIMG) which will see TIMG deliver a cloud based Document Management and Workflow solution for use by its clients.
To help celebrate its 10-year anniversary, US document management provider, Cintas Corporation has come up with an interesting Top 10 list of innovations in document management throughout history. The list highlights key inventions and developments that have shaped the way information is stored, organised and destroyed throughout history.
Two major public sector organisation in New Zealand, the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) and Ministry of Transport (MoT), have issued a joint tender for enterprise search across SharePoint and other information repositories.
SharePoint has become such a pervasive platform in the market place, we see SharePoint projects becoming more common place in many organisations. Unfortunately, it seems that many of these projects will fail. There are a variety of reasons, excuses and explanations as to why this is the case, with the great majority pointing the finger at the technology.
MacroView has recently added the Australian Stock Exchange and listed property investment group Goodman Property to the list of adopters of its MacroView Document Management Framework software, which enables full-function, large-scale document and email management on the Microsoft SharePoint platform.
