As Microsoft updates Office 365 services on a more frequent basis, we are starting to see differences emerge between SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server features and capabilities
Architecture & Design
Do carousels matter?
Human intuition can still outperform machine analytics and statistics when it comes to understanding the indirect benefits that design choices create and that are impossible to measure in isolation.
SharePoint 2013 Capacity Planning
One of the first documents you should refer to when planning a SharePoint deployment – as a platform and also individual solutions – is Microsoft’s Software Boundaries and Limits
Intranet Home Page Design
The challenge with designing an Intranet home page is that you are trying to target multiple different audiences. One screen will never suit all. But you can optimise elements of the page
Creating successful intranets
In April 2013 we delivered a half-day workshop at the SharePoint Evolutions conference in London. Talking through lessons learned in creating successful intranets
Platform or Application?
Platforms are often criticised when compared to applications for delivering IT solutions. They rarely offer the same richness of features and can often be more complicated to set-up. But that doesn’t mean they are without their own benefits
The shift in technology design
“If you want simplicity, if you want to be seen as an innovator, then it’s the mainstream customers you should be aiming at” is a fundamental shift in technology design
Why design means compromise
Catching up on podcasts, I was recently listening to ‘An hour with Bill Buxton’ recorded at Microsoft’s Mix conference in 2010. Bill Buxton is Principle Researcher at Microsoft Research and an early pioneer in human-computer interaction
We need a portal! …now what?
Back in April, I presented at the International SharePoint Conference held in London. One of the sessions was titled ‘We need a portal’. It was part of the business track, exploring how to run SharePoint projects
Imagining the future intranet
‘The four horsemen of the Intranet Apocalypse’ – how emerging trends will transform the company intranet
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