Save the Children’s U.S. Programs Division Migrates to SharePoint 2010 to Build Public Resource-Sharing Website for Child Advocates
In late 2011, the U.S. Programs division of Save the Children turned to Abel Solutions to deploy a new website to share its educational resources with the public and enhance user experience. A year later, the award-winning non-profit has upgraded to SharePoint 2010 and successfully launched its U.S. Center for Child Development and Resiliency website, …
Overview of Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2013
Although Business Connectivity Services first surfaced with SharePoint 2010, the feature has taken a major leap in value and productivity with the release of SharePoint 2013. BCS enables SharePoint to access data from external data systems such as SQL Server, SAP, ERP and CRM, in addition to other data-driven applications that are exposed to Windows …
North Highland Revs Up Collaboration and Community with SharePoint, FAST Search and NewsGator
North Highland had a well-utilized SharePoint framework, but older documents were not easily searchable. And geographically-dispersed subject matter experts (SMEs) were difficult to identify.
Real-Time Collaboration with Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010
When collaborating on a document, it is common to email that document to one or more colleagues to update. Fortunately, SharePoint 2010 (and SharePoint Online on Microsoft Office 365) and Office 2010 provide co-authoring capabilities for real-time collaboration.
Apps for Office in SharePoint 2013
The apps for Office feature in SharePoint 2013 is actually a development platform that extends the functionality of documents, email messages, meeting requests and appointments in Microsoft Office and some Office Web Apps for desktop and some mobile environments. By design, apps for Office are highly targeted bits of functionality used to handle otherwise complex, …
Kevin’s Top 10 List from SharePoint Conference 2012 – 3rd Party Products Worth Learning More About
There’s a lot see and learn at SPC2012 with 10,400 professionals eager to learn & over 200 companies offering products/services that add value to SharePoint. Here’s my top 10 list of innovative companies whose products are adding great value to the SharePoint platform.
Abel Solutions to Help Republic National Distributing Company Power Enhanced Collaboration, Communication with SharePoint 2013 Intranet
Alpharetta, GA – Abel Solutions, Atlanta’s only consulting firm focusing on the delivery of real business solutions on the SharePoint platform, today announced it is managing the planning and deployment of the Republic National Distributing Company’s (RNDC’s) SharePoint 2013 platform. When complete, the solution will incorporate a company-wide intranet that will facilitate interdepartmental collaboration and …
Sync SharePoint Document Libraries using SkyDrive Pro
SkyDrive Pro is Microsoft’s solution for keeping SharePoint 2013 document libraries in sync with documents on your local file system. It attempts to provide the answer to the question “Where do I keep my documents?”. Companies would rather have employees store their work related documents in SharePoint. By doing this, the documents are stored on …
Knowledge Management with Metadata and SharePoint Search
Knowledge can be difficult to find within an organization. SharePoint is great for capturing knowledge but this gets lost over time, especially as new content is added. How do we harness this knowledge so that it becomes more useful for the users of your system?
Get Social with SharePoint 2013
Social communication and collaboration is one of the many areas where SharePoint 2013 offers a quantum leap from SharePoint 2010. Microsoft has coined the term Productivity Pillars to describe the key principles of SharePoint 2013’s social features, which is to enhance and expand the way people and information flow, engage and interact. In a recent …