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Has EMC Documentum Lost Its Way?

Ed Alexander — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:02 +0000

EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint reveal a vast divide in both resolve and vision. EMC will tell you that Documentum is the obvious choice for enterprise implementations managing very large data and content inventories. EMC begins in the basement (with disk and server) and provides infrastructure that content-able implementations can exploit for the end-users benefit. …

Your LinkedIn Contacts are now in Linked In Outlook!

Ed Alexander — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:29:15 +0000

Outlook Social Connector to Linked-In is available now and may have you rethinking the way you use Linked-In.

SharePoint Access Services will Re-Shape Application Development in 2010

Ed Alexander — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:34:01 +0000

With the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 and Access 2010 the barrier to complex application development in the SharePoint platform will be simplified to point and click. Do you remember the days when an access DB could satisfy departmental solution needs? Those days are returning in 2010 and carry significant advantages to those who opt for SharePoint Online.

Microsoft Online Services General Manager Discusses BPOS

Ed Alexander — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:43:43 +0000

Bharat Shah is the General Manager of the Microsoft Online Services Engineering division and is responsible for providing Microsoft’s business productivity software in the cloud. The video bellow is from Microsoft Channel 9 and discusses the BPOS engineering work that is ongoing.

Office 2010 Family Betas are Released

Ed — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:19:51 +0000

Microsoft released beta packages yesterday for both SharePoint and Office 2010 (Office 14) to TechNet and MSDN. This version of the SharePoint server makes significant progress towards blurring the line between on-premise and hosted cloud implementations (internal or external) as well as large additions and improvements to collaboration and integration capabilities. With that said, I …