Microsoft has announced a new indexing connector for business intelligence (BI), specifically BI reports created using Excel and/or SQL Reporting Services, including the new tool for analysing massive amounts of data – PowerPivot. The connector creates a dedicated Report tab to query just reports, includes specific refiners filtering search reports, and thumbnails and previews to [...]
Read more »This week I presented at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference and one of the sessions I delivered was an interactive tour around some of the new and improved features being introduced in SharePoint 2010, from the end-user’s perspective. Here’s a presentation that summarises some of the demonstration:
Read more »With the next release of SharePoint, Microsoft has been changing some names and adding to the product range. Starting with the basics:
| What’s it called? | What does it do? |
| SharePoint Foundation Service | Provide a web-based platform for storing and collaborating on documents and other activity-related information. Previously called: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) |
| SharePoint Server | Full web-based platform for information management, search and collaborative working including personalisation and integrating other applications into a single user interface. Previously called: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) |
| SharePoint Workspace | Client for offline co-creation/collaboration on SharePoint content from remote locations/across firewalls. Previously called: Groove |
The United States Olympic Committee have launched a new Press Portal ready for the Winter Olympics. The portal is a public web site running on SharePoint Server 2010 Beta:
Microsoft has a proof of concept built on SharePoint – Looking Glass (must stress: It’s a proof of concept (PoC), no mention of an actual working solution yet) – exploring how to monitor and act on social media conversations (increasingly being labelled as ‘Sentiment Analysis’)
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