What do you think of when you hear the word SharePoint? Usually the answer to this question is: Collaboration. Which is correct! However, SharePoint is so much more than a group/team of people collaborating on their intranet. Today, I want to take a few minutes to describe how an organization can expose their line of business application data in SharePoint. Here’s a common scenario: A business currently has a home-grown system that they use. The interface has gotten outdated, but the information interfaced is still valuable to the organization and its employees. All the data is stored in databases (either …

Today, I want to focus on SharePoint in academic organizations. How does SharePoint help educational institutions? How do on demand educational tools align to empower them? The usual educational staff and teacher complaints stem from frustration with the time it takes to get access to needed data. More often than not, too many systems need to be utilized to get access to required data. This also subsequently requires remembering access information and passwords to all those systems. SharePoint has been deployed at many K-12 and higher level educational institutions. Many of them have been our customers over the years. There …

In case you are wondering where Berchtesgaden is, here is a map for it: http://g.co/maps/mpu7w (not far from Salzburg, Austria) Lots of great SharePoint and SQL sessions are planned for the event. If you are in that area, come and join us