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Articles by Christopher Musico

Using SharePoint for Knowledge Management

"Picture this scene: It's 11:30 pm on Tuesday night, and the director of product marketing is furiously trying to finish up a product brochure vital to a huge business development presentation Wednesday morning. Scanning through her hard drive for product specification documents, email for attachments from colleagues distributed around the globe and digging through the file folder in her desk. . . ."

Delivering True ECM with SharePoint

Many organizations worldwide have their C-level executives sitting at the boardroom, hemming and hawing over which strategies they must adopt in order to maintain a competitive advantage. . . .

Optimize SharePoint Storage
Ensure Governance, Performance and Scalability

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, the latest release of Microsoft's best-selling server product, is poised to revolutionize how organizations worldwide connect their people, processes and information. Its release marks SharePoint's evolution from a server application into a full-fledged platform. . .

Fortifying the Pillars of Governance

What exactly IS governance? Governance, at first glance, seems to be one of those broad, umbrella-like terms that can mean virtually anything. Definitions from different research firms and business consultants do little to resolve the issue. According to Gartner Research, IT governance is "the set of processes that ensure the effective and efficient use of IT in enabling an organization to achieve its goals." Microsoft TechNet explains that IT governance is "the set of policies, roles, responsibilities and processes that guide, direct and control how an organization's business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals." Though these definitions help frame the issue, it is often difficult for the IT administrator to define actual "good governance practices" from such broad definitions...