Over the last few years Sei-IS have been involved with a number of industries but this week I have the opportunity to watch a beer get created from scratch and it reminded me that we have assisted a number of companies in their Knowledge delivery. Information spreads out like a spider web but...
SharePoint Design ...
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I am asked regularly about branding a SharePoint site and the Balance between what to do and what to leave as is. My Response is always the same which causes confusion but provides a nice lead into the real value of a potential £-$-Eur 15K investment. I tell my customers to define the...
It is this thing cal...
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Whilst SharePoint 2010 is more intuitive than previous versions, mainly due to emulating the Office 2010 interface, it is still a new environment that users need to get comfortable with. In many cases how we expect users to transition users across to SharePoint is not considered and typically...
PRMA Case Study
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PRMA Matrix is the name given to the new SharePoint based Intranet for PRMA Consulting based in the UK. Sei-IS Business Consultancy have managed the design, build and implementation of the project as well as the efforts required to change the business to adopt the new installation which of...
Power Day Plus
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All projects require a specific level of Business Change to be successful and SharePoint is no exception. In fact it could be that as SharePoint touches nearly every employee then it is a greater part of the critical project timeline. We have found that training is the best way to ensure...
SharePoint the shape...
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Training has always been a key attribute of a business change program. This is mainly due to the fact that change is based on new processes or new IT applications and systems being released. With any SharePoint project the training and business change requirements at the end should not be...
Managing Information...
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I recently had to outline for a client the steps they needed to take to move from a solutions driven Information strategy to a governance driven Information strategy. The objective was to consider how this apparent low-priority set of tasks could in the longer term mean cost efficient...
SharePoint Project C...
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The London Borough of Bromley Intranet… a bulletin! The PDF version can be downloaded from here: Introduction This short briefing document outlines the basic attributes of a SharePoint Implementation project managed in its entirety by Steve Dalby (steve.Dalby@sei-is.be) as Project...
100 Million Items in...
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First day yesterday and I did have to twitter everyone after watching the SharePoint demo to say that Microsoft does have a winner in SharePoint 2010 although they do seem to have forgotten a few things. Missing things tend to be small things that annoy when building sites and lists rather...
Powerpoint presentat...
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I mentioned in a previous blog post how we are able to understand the integration of Office desktop products and SharePoint 2010 from the Office 2010 information, whilst most of the really cool SharePoint stuff is embargoed until after the SharePoint conference in LA. Well this journey...
Implementation of Sh...
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There are people much better than me at following the blogs and internet traffic on SharePoint and Office 20-10 (to be pronounced, Twenty Ten) but whilst most of the detailed SharePoint information is due to be released at SharePoint Conference in October my reading of the office 2010...
Taxonomy… then...
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A Content Management System (CMS) used for Intranet or Internet sites is one breed of web site and a Knowledge Management System (KMS) is another. Lets consider them both and look at the differences that add value to the corporate Intranet. Displaying information The first (Internet/Intranet)...
SharePoint the Font ...
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SharePoint has various faces, the “must have” of the corporate world or the “let’s build our Intranet on SharePoint” all with the objective of it becoming the ‘Font of all Knowledge’ for my organisation. Intranet This is easily achieved but only if it is...