Posted by mohamedr on January 6, 2012 – 9:33 am
Part 1: The Problem
Employees periodic assessment is an important and tedious repetitive process for the HR department. As a leader in Software Development, Quercus Solutions decided to computerise its employees assessment process. I was charged with implementing a simple, affordable, and extensible solution using a non code InfoPath Form and a declarative SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow.
Process Description and Security Constraints
Quercus Employees assessment process involves four parties, the employee himself, his coach, the HR department, and the company manager. One big concern is to keep the assessment data completely private and secure.
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Posted by mohamedr on January 5, 2012 – 12:24 pm
The Association for Information and Image Management AIIM recently published the results of their survey regarding the State of the ECM Industry in 2011. I will summarize here some of the findings concerning SharePoint.
About the Survey
The survey covers 650 individual members of the AIIM community between January 28,2011, and February 14, 2011. Survey Participants represent organizations of all sizes. Larger organizations over 5,000 employees represent 35%, with mid-sized organizations of 500 to 5,000 employees at 41%. Small-to-mid sized organizations with 10 to 500 employees constitute 24%. Organizations of less than 10 employees (26) are not included in the report.
The findings concerning SharePoint are classified in three headings; Read More »
Posted by mohamedr on January 3, 2012 – 10:48 am
This series of articles are addressed to IT persons who are not necessarily exposed to SharePoint. Those interested in Information Architecture (IA) and Enterprise Content Management would possibly find the subject more beneficiary than others. SharePoint specialists may be interested in the content from a high level and global perspective.
The objective of this series of articles is to examine SharePoint capabilities and limitations in the context of Enterprise Content Management, including Web Content Management.
In Part 1 I am going to discuss the notion of IA and its implications for Content Management Systems. Also, I will discuss the concept of SharePoint Governance and its relation to IA.
For the empirical purpose of this article I am going to adopt a very simple and clear definition of IA as:
“The organization of information into coherent structures that optimize its usefulness and enable its efficient navigation and retrieval (search). This usually requires the categorization of information using hierarchical or network artefacts.”
The above definition implies that developing an IA includes the following essential undertakings: Read More »
