Digital Collaboration / Social Computing guide, a SharePoint Architect's view

SharePoint 2010 is coming straight ahead and we only need to wait a little over two months before the next version of SharePoint officially comes out.

As posted on Microsoft site:

Watch Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST.

The live keynote focuses on the next wave of productivity that delivers:

End user productivity across the PC, phone and browser
IT choice and flexibility
A platform for developers to build innovative solutions

Join the virtual launch event with Microsoft executives, product developers, partners and customers to:

I agree with David Linthicum that companies should be able to better analyze their data to optimize their business operations. This is particularly, true in this economic crisis where companies are tightening their belts:

As written: Okay, getting the entire vendor created marketing crud out of the way, I’m seeing business intelligence fall into two very broad categories, passive and active:

So, what I’m saying is that the real value from business intelligence is providing a dashboard into the business, and the ability to take corrective action to optimize the business. Current data mixed with historical data. While we’ve been here before around the use of BAM (business activity monitoring), we’ve focused mostly around monitoring and not action. We do have companies today, such as Vitria, that are providing technology in this area, but I’ve yet to see wide spread adoption even though the value is tremendous.

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Everyone in the Enterprise or organization should have the facility to access information from a central point where users share and use the same data. This is the ideal scenario of a company that allow employees to boost their productivity that directly affects the organizations bottomline.

Below are common and necessary features and characteristics of a portal solution:

1. Consolidation and integration of information – a portal is a central access point of information; and consolidation and integration of information is a necessary trait of a portal solution.

Information comes from different departments—HR (departments are also divided into various entities like recruitment, performance, evaluation), Sales, Accounting, Logistics, etc. Information also come from different mediums—hardcopy, database, lob, web services, etc. Likewise it could also come from different sources like inside the company, vendors, partners, and other external entities. Given that there are so many variables in play, a portal solution aims to put all these information to a single point where all users are able to share and use the same data.

For example, Recruitment from the HR department updates employee who were hired and this information should be accessible to other departments as well. The performance and evaluation groups in the HR should use the same information of the employee and update it accordingly. Likewise, Sales department may report bonuses to the HR for the specific employee and their resources should be able to access and update the same person from the HRs record.

This is a video on making a quick launch bar in Windows 7.

Video description

The one thing I hate about windows 7 is the lack of the quick launch bar. I tried other bars like rocketbar and such but it just wasn’t the same. Then at work one day I came up with this great idea. check it out.

Asus has announced their latest version of their revolutionary netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1000HE. The current introductory prices is at $399 USD.

As of their press release:

Asus Eee PC 1000HE are devices to support Lenovo S10.

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