Dux Raymond Sy (@meetdux) is writing a series introducing SharePoint to executives. For it, he created this compelling video about how easy it is for a project manager to create their own collaborative intranet without IT. SharePoint Empowers Users from Dux Raymond Sy on Vimeo.

I just read an article in the midmarket CIO section of TechTarget reporting on Forrester’s finding that SharePoint is gaining market share in Records Management. The finding is surprising because SharePoint 2007 has some "significant shortcomings" when it comes to records management (RM), said Hill and others. While miles ahead of ...

Over at Jeff Shuey’s blog, I read about the announcement of Google’s Apps at Work. Jeff’s an absolute expert on what it means to be a Microsoft partner – he was a Partner Manager at Microsoft and in the ECM space, he’s been a Parter/Alliance manager for Kofax and Captaris. His take: The challenge for Google will be to empower a vibrant group ...

CMS Report is lamenting the lack of details of CMIS and SharePoint 2010: While Microsoft announced their support for CMIS in September 2008 there has been little word from Microsoft on when we'll see CMIS available for SharePoint users and whether CMIS will be incorporated into SharePoint 2010. And he’s right – Bryan gives an exhaustive list ...

Last month, I wrote about a Computerworld article on the cost of SharePoint that concluded: If CIOs treat SharePoint as off-the-shelf software, the costs will indeed be onerous. However, if CIOs treat it as an enterprise information platform and content management system, SharePoint will yield tremendous value-and potentially at a fraction of ...

One of the big advantages that SharePoint has is that it’s tightly integrated with Microsoft’s Office suite. This is something that some vendors (like Alfresco and us with Vizit Scan to SharePoint) have recognized and have worked to implement the same APIs that SharePoint does to integrate with Office. Oracle now controls the #2 and #3 products ...

Jeff Shuey has put 16 years in the ECM space working for Microsoft and Microsoft partners, so when he talks about the partnering with Microsoft, it’s worth paying attention to.  Two recent posts caught my attention: First, Jeff talks about how partners fit in to the SharePoint ecosystem. […] SharePoint is really only complete when ...

Microsoft is releasing a version of Windows 7 that is meant for netbooks in developing countries that need an entry-level version of Windows. To do this, they limited the OS to running three applications at once. Ed Bott at ZDNet has done some testing with it, and finds that you can get by pretty well if you are mostly surfing the net and maybe ...

Andy Dale has a great article about getting started with SharePoint Designer now that it’s free. Of course, the best tips are that SharePoint Designer is very dangerous – you need to be careful. I have had access to Designer, but now that’s it’s free, somehow I feel like taking a look at it – I have some processes that I have wanted to automate ...

Just saw a report on Microsoft and Open-source stack usage in the enterprise. Its goal was:The goal of this survey is to research how open source is used within the enterprise, as well as examine the growing impact of Enterprise 2.0technologies and competitive systems such as Microsoft SharePoint. And it had kind of surprising result: Microsoft ...