Collaboration Tools, If you Build it Will They Come?
As IT professionals, we are responsible for providing the tools to help an organization collaborate. We address this by putting in place things like Microsoft SharePoint Server, MySites, Instant...
View ArticleMore on CIOs Leading Innovation Agendas
On Jan. 9 , I discussed the importance of CIOs driving innovation by aligning technology to business goals. Avanade’s own CIO, Chris Miller, is a good example of what I mean. As a business technology...
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Is Social Collaboration the Next Application on the Cloud Migration List?
Recently, I talked about key technology trends for 2012 and called out cloud computing as one area that companies are further exploring in 2012. Cloud computing is obviously an area where companies see...
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The Convergence of Tomorrow’s Technology
Recently I read an article from Inc.com that outlined the six major tech trends for 2012. Inc.com claimed that these trends could create huge opportunities or huge disruptions in the enterprise. As I...
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Socializing Social – Launching SharePoint 2013 at SPC12
The week of November 12th will be a very hectic one for about 50 Avanade employees from around the world, as we will be joining 10,000 of our closest friends at Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference...
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How Do You Measure Your Collaboration Efforts?
You have defined your collaboration and social networking strategy and have high expectations for business results. After the implementation, your analysis of the platform consist of only very...
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Welcome Azaleos to Avanade
Some of you may have seen our news that we have completed our acquisition of Azaleos. Over the past eight years, Azaleos has built a reputation for offering private managed cloud services using...
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A New Beginning for Azaleos Managed Services
Azaleos has come a long way since its founding in 2004. After just six years in business, we had surpassed 500,000 subscribers and built a solid reputation on our Exchange legacy. Just one year...
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Avanade Ranked a Top SharePoint Service Provider by Gartner
Being involved with SharePoint over the past seven years, I’ve been a faithful user of the platform. After attending the SharePoint Conference in 2012, I was enthusiastic about the capabilities and the...
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Avanade to Show Up in Force at SPTechCon
When SP TechCon 2013 was announced, I got really excited because I love SharePoint and I love San Francisco. Right there, I had my favorite platform in my favorite city combined in one neat package. We...
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Social Collaboration: The New Reality for 21st Century Companies
Only 7 years ago, in 2005, I remember two co-workers staring at a computer screen and I wasn’t sure what they were looking at. Turns out they were watching someone dance on a site called YouTube. I had...
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Enterprise Social Technologies to Power Innovation – Part One
In this two part series, we’ll take a look at leveraging new Enterprise Social Technologies to manage ideation and ultimately to realize innovation in today’s modern companies. The value of fostering...
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The Three Frontiers of Social Collaboration
It seems to me that today’s organizations are demanding more and more from their employees, who are also increasingly becoming information workers. They consume increasing amounts of information and...
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Enterprise Social Technologies to Power Innovation – Part Two
In part one of this two part series we defined what innovation means in the context of enterprise social and the traditional Engage, Evolve, Evaluate, Execute model. At a high level, innovation...
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The Evolution of Social Collaboration within the Enterprise
We’ve been talking a lot lately about how technology is changing the way we do work. It no longer matters where we work but how we work. We work in a constantly changing, ever-mobile work environment,...
View ArticleSocial Collaboration Comes to Life
Social networking technologies are changing the way that we interact and collaborate with one another on both a personal and professional level. In the enterprise, social collaboration is driving...
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Maximizing Enterprise Collaboration in Today’s Redesigned Workplace
It’s clear from industry news and our own first-hand research that social collaboration is not a fad. It is the future. It’s a way to transform business processes and release the power of data and...
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Minimizing Email Overload with Social Collaboration
Did you know that 90% of professional workers with smart phones check email first thing in the morning prior to doing anything else, even before saying hi to their spouses? Gasp. This occurs because...
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What Type of Collaborator Are You? Find Out with our Social Collaboration Tool
As the director of collaboration and business intelligence marketing at Avanade, I am fortunate to have access to the latest enterprise social collaboration technologies such as Microsoft SharePoint...
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Is Microsoft SharePoint on the Decline? Absolutely Not!
I have been reading in the press that some folks are declaring that the Microsoft SharePoint platform is on the decline for whatever reasons. Looking at the Avanade portfolio of customers, I can tell...
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