Whilst most of my software-specific consulting activities revolve around the luscious SharePoint, I’m always on the lookout to bring Excel to the party. Excel 2007 introduces some new visualization capabilities to make it easier and quicker to analyze large data sets without requiring specialist tools. If you haven’t seen what Excel can do, here’s a [...]
Read more »[Update: 26 July 2008] This post has been copied to the following location. If you have any questions or comments, please visit it there – http://www.sharepointsharon.com/blog/2008/07/sharepoint-for-web-sites-or-not.htm—————————————————————————————————————– Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is marketed across 6 solution segments: collaboration; portals; search; content management; business intelligence and business processes. One question I often get asked by customers [...]
Read more »Following Microsoft’s Enteprise Search Announcement, a partner – IDV Solutions – has created a great demonstration of federated search, combining standard web search results with Flickr photos and Virtual Earth. Below is a screenshot, showing a search for ‘Rome’. As you select each image, it’s location is displayed alongside using Virtual Earth: They have made [...]
Read more »Yesterday, Microsoft announced some changes to their enterprise search strategy. To read all about it, go to www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch. Here’s the summary: New Products Server-based enterprise search solutions are now available in three flavours: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express Edition Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) is [...]
Read more »In Search Lessons (part 1), I highlighted the most common of requests from customers thinking about, or in the middle of, deploying enterprise search solutions: ¨We want our own search to be as good, if not better than, searching the Internet. Our people are used to Google.¨ Part 1 focused on the top challenge created [...]
Read more »I have been running Enterprise Search discovery workshops on behalf of Microsoft throughout this year. Now, this should not be a total surprise, but the technology focus of the workshop is Microsoft’s products and services. Specifically: SharePoint Server 2007 (I’ve gone off calling it MOSS at the moment), Windows Desktop Search and Live Search (that’s [...]
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