Tuesday, March 17, 2009

SharePoint meeting with Egypt SharePoint User Group

A technical gathering will be held in Microsoft Egypt for Egypt SharePoint user group

Speakers:Joel Olson


SharePoint Expert Speaker & Blogger, 8 year SharePoint veteran Microsoft IT Architect.
Session: 10 Steps to Successful Deployments
Description: Without a service definition, scope creep can ruin a deployment. Come spend time to hear the insights of SharePoint Joel on the 10 Steps to successful deployment from governance and building solid teams, to designing scalable information architectures.

Mike Watson

is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability.
Session: Backup Demystified

Q&A Panel Ask the expert (Free discussion)

Date/Time: 9th April - 6:30 PM till 9 PM
Transportation: to be announced later

Location: Microsoft EgyptSmart Village – KM 28 Cairo/Alex desert roadGround Floor, Room Explorer 1 & 2
http://www.sharepointgroups.org/egysug/default.aspx


Thanks to the group owners for this initiative, good luck and go ahead guys (y)
See you all there

Monday, March 02, 2009

How MOSS Can Help Improve Business Processes

As one of the most widely used document collaboration tools, it is no wonder organizations want to understand how to build better business processes in SharePoint. Of course, not all documents are electronic. Organizations still deal with a vast amount of paper-based information. So you look for document imaging software to help you get those documents into SharePoint easily. But once they are there, how can you leverage the SharePoint environment to improve your business processes?

Business and IT professionals are increasingly looking at how to leverage their existing investment and knowledgebase in Microsoft SharePoint to achieve success with business process management (BPM) initiatives.

Mauro Cardarelli, director of Portals and Collaboration at Vitale Caturano, took the time to address questions on strategies for linking document scanning with SharePoint to eliminate business process bottlenecks. (Editor Note: This interview was conducted by eCopy)

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