by Larry Cannell | April 23, 2013 | Comments Off
Microsoft is accelerating the development of Office (at least, the development of Office 365). That is the overall tone of a recent article by Mary Jo Foley ("How Microsoft is speeding up the Office trains") that quotes Jeff Teper, corporate Vice President, Office Servers and Services and Adam Pisoni, Co-Founder of Yammer and now a [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: exchange, Office365, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | March 29, 2013 | Comments Off
Last week Microsoft posted a blog highlighting their progress in integrating Yammer with SharePoint and Office 365. What I found most interesting is how widely this update was reported as new information. Perhaps the implications of Microsoft’s plans for Yammer were lost in the flood of news coming out of the SharePoint Conference last fall. [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: Office365, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | March 21, 2013 | 2 Comments
Yesterday Microsoft posted an update on their progress towards integrating Yammer with SharePoint 2013 and Office 365. I’m traveling this week, but I still wanted to share my thoughts. This post summarizes the features Microsoft announced and is mostly a rough collection of my initial reactions. At the bottom of this post, I link to [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Office365, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | March 8, 2013 | 2 Comments
Please join me on Thursday, March 14 for a webinar discussing SharePoint 2013 and Yammer. Microsoft launched SharePoint 2013 with new social software features just months after acquiring the cloud-based social network site Yammer. This webinar discusses the company’s integration plans and guides enterprises on what to do now that Microsoft has competing social software [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: collaboration, sharepoint, social networks, yammer
by Larry Cannell | November 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
Next week Microsoft will be unveiling details behind SharePoint 2013. My primary interest is in improvements in SharePoint’s social software capabilities. However, Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Yammer leaves questions about the future of SharePoint-provided social software capabilities, as well as the future of Yammer. In addition, the beta release of SharePoint 2013 and the Office [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: microsoft, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | November 9, 2012 | 6 Comments
Next week I will be at the SharePoint Conference, where Microsoft is introducing SharePoint 2013. While a big question on many people’s minds is Microsoft’s plans for integrating SharePoint and Yammer, we will also get a closer look at other social software improvements. The acquisition of Yammer and the changes in SharePoint 2013 show that [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: microsoft, office, sharepoint, social software, yammer
by Larry Cannell | July 12, 2011 | Comments Off
If you attended, or were following, the Enterprise 2.0 conference a few weeks ago you are probably aware that Cisco is starting to make a big push into the enterprise collaboration market with Quad. Although the product has officially been available for about a year, many IT professionals still don’t know much about Quad. However, [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: cisco, collaboration, quad, sharepoint
by Larry Cannell | October 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Microsoft will be adding multiple levels of enterprise packages to their BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services) SaaS offering and is also renaming the service to “Office 365.” All of these packages will be based on the latest releases of SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync (formerly called Office Communications Server). Microsoft Corp. today announced Microsoft Office 365, [...]
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Category: Cloud Tags: exchange, lync, microsoft, office, saas, sharepoint
by Larry Cannell | September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
In a previous post I noted that SharePoint and Office 2010 are more integrated than ever before. However, this integrated experience is not extended to Windows. But this begs the question: how could Windows integrate better with SharePoint? Windows 7′s federated search is a good example of how I would like to see any future [...]
Category: Windows 7 Tags: cmis, sharepoint, Windows 7
by Larry Cannell | September 23, 2010 | Comments Off
We’ve previously discussed how SharePoint and Office 2010 can integrate on many levels. However, while this may benefit Office users it does little to address the needs of a broader audience Microsoft serves: Windows users. For review, Office/SharePoint 2010 work together like no previous Office/SharePoint releases: Office has become a content management front-end for SharePoint. [...]
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Category: Windows 7 Tags: office, sharepoint, windows
