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Manually searching your shared drives for information is time consuming and a huge hassle—especially if you don’t know the exact name of the file you’re looking for. To help solve this issue, many businesses and government agencies are starting to implement SharePoint Enterprise Search into their existing environment. SharePoint Enterprise Search works much like your...
2016 is a big year for SharePoint. Microsoft released SharePoint 2016 and is discontinuing support for SharePoint 2007. If your staff uses an older or outdated version of SharePoint, now is the time to migrate or upgrade to a newer version. While a SharePoint migration can seem overwhelming, using a newer version will result in...
Since more and more businesses are migrating their data storage to a cloud environment, cybercrimes are running more rampant. As a result, there is a growing need to make sure that data is secure. Here are five ways your business can increase cloud security and prevent your data from being compromised. 1. Don’t store business-related...
In my blog “Using SharePoint 2013 for Business Intelligence,” I discussed the benefits of integrating SharePoint with other tools in the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) ecosystem as well as covered some of SharePoint 2013’s notable BI services. In this blog, I will discuss SharePoint Online and another Microsoft BI tool – Power BI. SharePoint Online, Office...
In my blog “Benefits of Using a Business Intelligence Solution,” I explained Business Intelligence (BI) and discussed some of the benefits of using a Business Intelligence solution, such as SharePoint. But, did you know that SharePoint is just one of several Microsoft BI tools? In this blog, I will highlight the benefits of integrating SharePoint...
At the end of last month, we attended SharePoint Fest DC, a two-day training conference with more than 80 sessions featuring many of the country’s leading SharePoint experts and solution providers. We thought the conference, which took place April 27–29 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., was a great experience and gave us a wonderful...
Your agency will need to migrate from SharePoint 2007 before Microsoft no longer supports the platform. But which current platform is best for you? Below we’ll compare SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online to see some of the benefits, and shortfalls, of each. Environment If you already have SharePoint on-premises, migrating to SharePoint 2013 is a...
Business Intelligence (BI) is a hot topic in business these days. But what does it mean and why is it important to your business? In this blog I will discuss BI and the benefits of implementing a BI solution. Business Intelligence—Explained BI refers to the processes a business uses to view, analyze and understand data...
Microsoft recently announced it will release SharePoint 2016 on May 4, 2016. Your agency may be wondering if moving to this platform is right for you. SharePoint 2016 closes the gap between on premise and cloud, according to Microsoft. Thus, the platform will deliver value to customers’ on-premise deployments and enable them to take advantage...