Microsoft announced a new product at the SharePoint conference that has been going under the codename Project Gemini – PowerPivot

PowerPivot is being released as an add-on component to Excel 2010 (licensing not available at time of writing). It’s purpose: analysing massive sets of data using familiar tools…

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The SharePoint 2010 product line-up was announced during Steve Ballmer’s keynote at the SharePoint conference on Monday 19th October 2009. And it’s a lot longer list…

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Commoncraft have been at it again with their Plain English way of explaining technology. And this time it’s SharePoint that gets the 3 minute treatment, on behalf of Microsoft:

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If you’ve ever sat through a SharePoint Server 2007 presentation, chances are you have seen a slide with a circle divided into six segments. The slide is used to position SharePoint as a platform for six different types of solution: collaboration, portal, search, content management, business processes and business intelligence. What we are beginning to [...]

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I’m using the following table in the Enterprise Search workshops I am currently delivering on behalf of Microsoft. People seem to be finding it useful so I thought I’d post it here. It is an expanded version of the table you can find on Microsoft’s web site (see end of post for link). The table [...]

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OK, time for the chasmic posts to begin. I figured picking on Microsoft would be a good place to start, specifically the products focused on improving how we find, share and use information (i.e. the stuff I’m interested in). Now I must stress the following curve is based purely on my opinion and perception of [...]

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