As a document management and collaboration solution, Microsoft SharePoint has its storage limits. But what are the specifics and does your organization even need to worry about reaching those limits? Here are the top six questions we get asked as SharePoint specialists. We hope to answer your questions about SharePoint 2007 and 2010 storage limits: How many lists can you have per website? In SharePoint 2010, the recommended limit is 5,000 and you can have up to 2,000 in SharePoint 2007 How many items can you have in...

Governance and compliance play essential roles in your records management (RM) strategy. If the correct foundation is not laid out at the beginning, then you run the risk of encountering multiple setbacks and potential delays when deploying and ultimately using SharePoint. So rather than put it off until the end of your implementation, take some time upfront to determine your record management needs and build them in from the beginning. First of all, how do you want to handle your records? In SharePoint 2010, you have...

Manual data entry can slow business down. It can also increase the risk of invalid data, reflecting inaccurate information about your financials, human resources, customer information and more. These pains cost your company time, money, and valuable opportunities. You may think that you’re stuck and just have to deal with time-consuming data entry processes, but automated workflows in SharePoint 2010 can save you time as well as vast amounts of money if implemented properly. Let’s review the costs incurred by manually...

Every organization has its own unique goals. For example, a business might have a yearly revenue goal while a school may focus on their graduation rate. Whatever the scenario, it’s important you have an analysis tool in place to help you reach the goals you set each day, month, and year. Key Performance Indicators, also known as KPI, help an organization define and measure progress toward organizational goals in a structured and timely way. Microsoft SharePoint makes goals much easier to reach through browser-based...

Reporting proves time and time again to be the number one thing companies look for when deciding on a business management solution. Our “love” for reports may go beyond normalcy as some of us have far too many to keep up with. Too often, companies have multiple reports that show the same data but in a different format. These types of reports are usually the biggest culprits and contribute to the confusion and frustration associated with business insight. Reporting data should not be as troublesome as it is for most...

Trying to meet pre-defined objectives of upper management and making sure each team member is accountable for specific tasks can be tiring. Services within Microsoft SharePoint can help everyone in your organization make complete and informed decisions that align with company wide objectives. As you already know, scorecards, dashboards, and KPIs can help drive accountability. Integrated analytics also help employees move quickly from monitoring information to analyzing it and, when appropriate, sharing it throughout...

As a project manager, you are juggling numerous components of multiple projects all while making sure your team is keeping up with their assigned tasks. Many of you are trying to manage all of this just within Microsoft Outlook and desktop folders. Well, Microsoft SharePoint may just be the dream tool you’ve been waiting for. Product features save you time and eliminate confusion across your team. Microsoft SharePoint makes your projects more efficient right from the get-go as your central repository for information...

This is the final post of our SharePoint Governance series and we hope you have already learned a lot. For this blog, we will be reviewing steps you need to take for your deployment plan. First of all, your deployment plan needs to capture both the hearts and minds of the user community in order to ensure that your solution will be successful. Everyone within your organization needs to be on the same page for your SharePoint site to work for you. The following areas should be incorporated in your rollout and launch...

This is the 2nd post of a three blog series we’re running on SharePoint Governance. If you missed our first post, Governance is the set of roles, responsibilities, and processes that you put in place to guide the development and use of a solution based on SharePoint. For this post, we are going to delve into policies. Don’t go running off just yet! We know policies can get to be headaches, especially if it requires pages and pages of reading. But SharePoint policies are essential in a successful deployment of SharePoint....

There are quite a few “dots” involved in proper project management and although you may have done your best to optimize those individual areas to the fullest, what have you done to connect them? Here are three main components of project management and how Microsoft SharePoint 2010 helps connect the dots.   Planning– The planning process for your project tasks need comprehensive interaction with all other project components. SharePoint 2010 Sites provides a single infrastructure for all your business Web...