Data Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "SharePoint 2010 adoption: If you deploy it, will your users come?"
This article is part of the August 2011 issue of How to plan for a SharePoint 2010 implementation
SharePoint’s success in the market can be attributed largely to its ease of use, according to Richard Harbridge, senior SharePoint evangelist at Allin Corp., a Boston-based consulting and IT services firm. With SharePoint, business workers “can build stuff really quickly – it’s almost like a work-around for IT,” Harbridge said. “End users have the ability to manage their documents, to build their own sites, to manage their own permissions. It’s very empowering. It even integrates with Microsoft Office. It seems like a no-brainer [to use].” What could possibly go wrong? Well, actually getting your end users to use the software, for one thing. “The biggest risk we run into is adoption risk: You build it, but nobody comes,” said Rob Koplowitz, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. He added that SharePoint adoption problems stem partly from “muscle memory,” or the tendency of users to keep doing what they’ve always done. Learn more about successful implementations of the SharePoint 2010 collaboration platform Find... Access >>>
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Three steps to creating a successful SharePoint 2010 deployment plan
by Brien M. Posey, Contributor
These best practices for developing a comprehensive enterprise SharePoint 2010 deployment strategy have proven a winning formula for many organizations and can be boiled down to three key steps.
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SharePoint 2010 adoption: If you deploy it, will your users come?
by Mark Clarkson, Contributor
Making sure SharePoint 2010 is adopted throughout the enterprise to its best advantage takes a clear strategic plan and an awareness of the pitfalls. Part of the trick is a setup for viral adoption.
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SharePoint 2010 performance management load gets heavier
by Shawn Shell, Contributor
SharePoint 2010’s increased capabilities, and complexity, require administrators to be more vigilant in managing and maintaining their server farms to ensure best performance.
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