Month: July 2012

The use of SharePoint 2010 will help the university to cut training and maintenance costs, save time and effort and focus on higher business priorities.

Automate university processes, improve e- library service as documents can be retrieved quickly and are not lost or misplaced, enhance collaboration (documents can be shared with staff and students needing them)

Speed up decision-making since information regarding decisions to be made is routed electronically instead of manual hence improving students’ productivity. When student’s paperwork and tasks are routed electronically, less time will be spent filing and retrieving document.

The introduction of requesting and submitting extenuating circumstances as well as annual leave on the new portal site will free up office space since paper copies of documents do not have to be stored. The university will reduce the  reliance upon printing and the distribution of paper (“paperless” office) hence reducing printing costs

This in a long run will decrease the carbon footprint; contribute positively towards the university’s sustainability commitment thus meet the university’s requirements for record management.

 

Groups of people example students, within the University will have to work collaboratively for committee agendas, minutes, projects proposals and charters etc. These information needs to be stored in documents where all the members of the group can find, use or update them. The introduction of SharePoint 2010 on the portal site will enable this to be done efficiently.

Microsoft Office 365 is the myriad factor to consider when migrating users to the cloud. Organisations will save money moving when moving to Microsoft Office 365, however, the planning and process involved in transitioning from an established infrastructure to a cloud environment is a major challenge which is being undertaken.

 

The introduction of Office 365 in the Microsoft SharePoint is a secure anywhere access to email, calendars, office web apps, instant messaging, conferencing and file sharing. The office 365 is able to edit documents online through the office apps.

Have you heard rumors about the university portal moving to SharePoint 2010? Well if you have then you heard right, but if you haven’t, you have now!

SharePoint 2010 is a great concept which i believe you will all love! it’s a bit technical but if you love your blackboard, then you will definitely love this too.

Who agrees with me that, it’s about time the university stepped up their game in upgrading to latest software? However, having said that, they deserve some credit for some of their latest inventions.

Watch this space for a lot of blogging on SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 makes it easier for people to work together.

The introduction of SharePoint 2010 on the University portal site will enable students set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish and publish reports to help other students in their academic work.

In today’s information hungry environment, Microsoft share point helps people collate important information in one integrated location thus improving organisation’s overall effectives. SharePoint 2010 Sites provides a single infrastructure for all your business Web sites. Share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners and publish information to customers.

Details of Microsoft share point 2010 capabilities:
Sites
SharePoint 2010 provides a single infrastructure for all business Web sites. This enables sharing of information at work among colleagues, manage projects with partners and publish information to customers.

Composites
Serves as a tool and component for creating do-it-yourself business solutions.

Insights
Gives people access to report, documents, data base and business applications. This will be beneficial to students.

Communities
It creates a single platform for people to share information and ideas as a group accomplishing a task (students conferencing and dissertation blog)
Content

Search
Helps users to find information and contacts i.e contacts of all the faculties and departments of the university.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-gb/product/capabilities/Pages/default.aspx

InfoPath 2010 is a powerful form creation and information gathering program included in the Microsoft Office 2010 release.

Every SharePoint list contains a set of list forms that can be used to view, edit, or add items to a list. Each list form displays the columns from that list as fields on a page where users can view, add, or edit information.
When using Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, you can customize these forms so that they’re easier to use and more targeted toward your business solution. Microsoft InfoPath 2010 can also be used to create and customize these forms.

The new improvement of the University of Lincoln Portal is impressive and the University IT support needs to be applauded for its effort, however, the test account doesn’t clearly show where to submit University news articles.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SHAREPOINT 2010

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/SearchResults.aspx?k=sharepoint%202013

 

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