by Guy Creese | October 4, 2011 | Comments Off
As I noted earlier, I’m at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA. My thoughts after day 1: Venue: I’d never been to the Anaheim Conference Center before but it’s very nice. It’s easy to get around, it’s relatively compact, and to get to the Anaheim Marriott is a 3-minute walk. Unfortunately, next year it’s slated [...]
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Category: Microsoft SharePoint Tags: #SPC11, Microsoft SharePoint
by Guy Creese | February 24, 2011 | Comments Off
For those looking the high points of our recent e-mail coverage, look no farther. The e-mail market is currently a fascinating one. For many years, enterprises supporting e-mail did so on autopilot: (1) buy e-mail server software from one of the top two or three vendors, (2) install it, and (3) maintain it. There were [...]
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by Guy Creese | October 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
Yesterday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Office 365–announced being the operative word, since it won’t be in production until sometime in 2011. Office 365 unites BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), Microsoft Office Live Small Business, and Live@edu under one brand name. It adds an online enterprise version of the Office Web Apps to the portfolio, as well [...]
Category: EA Google Microsoft SaaS SharePoint Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Office Web Apps
by Guy Creese | July 7, 2010 | Comments Off
Earlier in the week Jack Santos pointed me to a new AIIM report on SharePoint. (AIIM used to be an imaging organization; now it pitches itself as targeting the enterprise content management community. The report is free, but you need to register to download it.) The report makes for interesting reading. Some tidbits that leapt [...]
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Category: Microsoft SharePoint Uncategorized Tags: AIIM, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint
by Guy Creese | July 1, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday I installed the Outlook Social Connector–a new add-on to Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010. To use a phrase from my youth, it’s “kinda nifty.” It’s cutting down on my clicking buttons and resorting messages to find things in my Inbox. It aggregates information from Outlook as well as LinkedIn and SharePoint (assuming you have [...]
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Category: Google IBM Microsoft Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Xobni
by Guy Creese | June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
I spent some time yesterday trying out the new Word Web App on Windows SkyDrive, and comparing it with Word 2010. (This is not a task for the faint-hearted. Documenting the differences between the Office Web Apps versions and the software versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in just the Ribbon UI has so far [...]
Category: Microsoft SaaS Tags: Microsoft, Office Web Apps, Windows Live SkyDrive
by Guy Creese | June 1, 2010 | 3 Comments
Because I’m writing a report on Office 2010 for this quarter, I’ve been working with the beta of the Office Web Apps (the Technical Preview on Windows Live SkyDrive). At this point, the interesting factoid is that two of the apps still aren’t fully testable: Word and OneNote. You can display but not edit Word [...]
Category: Microsoft Uncategorized Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Word, Office 2010, Office Web Apps, Windows Live SkyDrive
by Guy Creese | May 21, 2010 | Comments Off
One capability of SaaS that’s rarely discussed is the fact that it contains a built-in usage feedback loop. Software, whether running on a client or a server, is pretty much an island. Once a vendor releases the product, the software runs on its own and sends very little usage information back to the vendor. This [...]
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by Guy Creese | May 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Microsoft and Capgemini Group today announced that Capgemini will market and sell Microsoft BPOS (online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, OCS, and Live Meeting) within its Infostructure Transformation Services group. The interesting thing here is that back in September 2007, Capgemini made a big splash in announcing that it would market and sell Google Apps Premier [...]
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Category: Google Microsoft Tags: Capgemini, Capgemini Group, Google, Microsoft
by Guy Creese | May 17, 2010 | Comments Off
At the release of Office 2010 last week, Microsoft talked about its ability to increase worker productivity (the carrot). However, clients that I’ve talked to are moving to Office 2010 because Microsoft gives them little choice (the stick). Let me explain. At the Office 2010 announcement event in New York last week, Microsoft asserted that [...]
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Category: Microsoft Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2010, Stephen Elop
