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SharePoint Governance Analytics and Scorecards

Given the wide range of functionality that the SharePoint Governance Kit provides, it has become increasingly necessary to develop and include a set of powerful reporting tools and analytics that can be used to monitor and analyze he performance of the...

Posted to Governance Kit Developers by Stephen Roos on 01-16-2009

Filed under: Reporting, Analytics, Scorecard

Your Compliance Assessment of SharePoint

Many of our customers within life sciences are concerned about how to perform their regulatory compliance assessment of the MOSS platform. For those not familiar to the wonderful world of system validation, compliance assessments are typcially performed...

Posted to Governance Kit in Life Sciences by Dana Berg on 01-16-2009

Filed under: GxP, Compliance, Validation, SOX, Qualification, Site Provisioning

Governing Partnership Collaboration

So maybe you've decided that it's now time to expand your SharePoint service to support partnership collaboration. If so, a common architectural design for this use case is to build out a dedicated SharePoint farm on your company's extranet...

Posted to Governance Kit Developers by Dana Berg on 02-02-2009

Filed under: Automated Provisioning, Site Provisioning, Partnerships

Governance Workshops 101 - Part 1 "What to know"

Recently, someone asked my opinion on what I felt to be the guiding principles for an effective SharePoint Governance Workshop? In my humble opinion, there really are no incredible secrets that stand out above and beyond the obvious: · Knowledge...

Posted to Governance Workshops by Brian Faunce on 02-08-2009

Filed under: Governance Preperation, Governance Workshops, Documentation

Applying Governance to High Tech Manufacturing

A couple of weeks ago we sponsored the Microsoft Global High Tech Summit in San Jose, it was a great event, and we were very excited with the discussions, especially given the economic outlook. We participated in a couple of sessions, including the keynote...

Posted to Governance Kit Developers by Aaron Sloman on 02-08-2009

Filed under: collaboration, governance, High Tech

Governance in Life Sciences - DIA Conference

Last week (2/9/09-2/13/09), speakTECH was an exhibiitor at the Drug Information Association (DIA) Conference in Philadelphia, PA. The conference was a great success as both a networking / marketing opportunity and an educational event for all parties...

Posted to Governance Kit in Life Sciences by Zeeshan Subzwari on 02-17-2009

Filed under: Site Provisioning, sharePoint Governance Kit, pharma, life sciences, governance, site discovery services

A Beginner’s Look at SharePoint Governance

So you have SharePoint 2007 rolled out, and things are going great for you as the SharePoint Administrator - the one in charge of this wonderful product your company has finally elected to use for the organization! But wait. Do you have a governance strategy...

Posted to Understanding Governance by Scott Chapman on 02-17-2009

Filed under: ROI, kit, governance, SharePoint, Beginners, Introduction

Forming a SharePoint Governance Committee

Most would agree it is important to establish a Governance Strategy of some degree, but how will this strategy or plan be conceived? Let's suppose you are the SharePoint Administrator. Will you create this plan on your own and then pass it around...

Posted to Understanding Governance by Scott Chapman on 02-28-2009

Filed under: governance, SharePoint, Committee

Governance in Communications, Policy and SharePoint Controls

Once you have helped form your organization’s SharePoint Governance Committee, it will be vital for the committee to form a clear, consistent yet fair Policy regarding SharePoint usage. But where will the committee begin? What rules should they...

Posted to Understanding Governance by Scott Chapman on 04-28-2009

Welcome to the SharePoint Governance Kit blog

speakTECH Labs has developed SharePoint Governance Kit to help you gain complete, customizable control of your installation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We'll keep you posted here on the latest builds, upcoming features and tips and...

Posted to Governance Kit Developers by Mack Reed on 01-12-2009

Filed under: News

Bridging On Premise and Partner/Microsoft Hosted SharePoint Farms

There's lots of positive momentum around services like Microsoft BPOS and Microsoft Online, as well as Partner hosted solutions. One of the challenges presented, is that one size does not usually fit all. Given our SharePoint Governance kit was designed...

Posted to Governance Kit Developers by Aaron Sloman on 01-15-2009

Filed under: Microsoft Online, Hosting, BPOS, Enterprise

K12 Education Governance Template

We are close to releasing our K12 Template for the SharePoint Governance Kit. We have been working with a number of school districts, understanding the way the students and teachers want to make SharePoint more flexible, incorporating our on-demand provisioning...

Posted to Governance Kit Developers by Aaron Sloman on 01-15-2009

Filed under: Education, K12, Automated Provisioning

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