http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/ Martin's perspectives on developments in intranets, extranets, content management, enterprise search and the information management industry en-gb Intranet Focus Ltd 2006 martin.white@intranetfocus.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:21:47 +0100 PHP5 If you have not yet completed the questionnaire for the 2011 Global Intranet Trends Report then you still have more than a week to do so. Jane McConnell, NetStrategy/JMC, the creator and author of the report, has already published some early analyses of from the initial 300 or so responses. I'm quite surprised to find that still only 7% of respondents support mobile access to their intranets, and 24% are planning to do so Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:12:00 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=101 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=101 For some time I have been trying to convince companies that they need to pay serious attention to how they provide access to the intranet over a mobile phone. Gradually there is recognition that mobile access is going to be increasing important, a point reinforced by several of the case studies in the Nielsen Norman Intranet Design Awards 2010 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:00:09 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=100 Over all the years that I have known James I have been struck by his passion for user-centric design. This passion comes across very clearly in his latest book on intranet design which will be published in mid-September. Web site designers have no idea how fortunate they are. They have millions of web sites to comb through looking for neat design tricks, and in general web sites have a focus that is just not possible or appropriate for even a small enterprise intranet Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:15:22 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=99 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=99 This is the title of a free 134pp report prepared for the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies of the European Commission by Pierre-Jean Benghozi and Cecile Chamaret. The Executive Summary states that the report looks at the demand and supply side of enterprise search, provides data about the market and presents an evolution of market dynamics over the last decade Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:10:44 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=98 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=98 I remain mystified why companies try to solve intranet usability problems by implementing a new search application, and throw all sorts of technology (mainly SharePoint) at collaboration problems. Technology itself is rarely the answer to any problem, something that most IT directors have yet to appreciate. Over the least few years Michael Sampson has written a number of books on collaboration good practice. In doing so Michael has realised that the problem is not finding and engaging the early adopters (the First Wave) Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:17:44 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=97 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=97 This is undoubtedly not a complete list of conferences that might be of interest to intranet managers, but currently these are the conferences I am aware of. If you know of any others please let me know and I'll update the calendar. 22 September, London Intranets at Work This is a new conference from the JBoye organisation, who have been running excellent conferences in Aarhus and Philadelphia for quite a while Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:48:07 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=96 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=96 One of my more challenging assignments this year has been writing a report on the opportunities and challenges that SharePoint 2010 presents to intranet managers, especially those considering an upgrade from MOSS07. The report was commissioned by the Intranet Benchmark Forum as a follow-up to a report I wrote for the IBF in 2009 on MOSS07 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:40:28 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=95 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=95 Yesterday was an interesting day in the enterprise search space. Autonomy bought the information governance business of Computer Associates which provides records management and email management software and services. The terms were not disclosed. I leave it to others to analyse the impact of this acquisition and move on to the acquistion of Exalead by Dassault Systemes, which provides product life-cycle management and CAD software Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:32:01 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=94 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=94 I've just completed the text of a report that assesses the benefits of upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, which will be published by the Intranet Benchmark Forum in a month or so. There is a section in the report on intranets and collaboration, because I am increasingly concerned about organisations that take the view that there is not enough collaboration taking place and make this the justification to invest in SharePoint. Both Michael Sampson and Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:14:35 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=93 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=93 There have been a number of posts recently from both the Real Story Group and JBoye about the use and abuse of spreadsheets in the process of selecting software products such as ECM, WCMS and search applications. The consensus view seems to be that they have little value and that in the end there is a strong tendency to manipulate the scores to end up with the product that intuition (usually the consultant's) suggests is the best fit Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:12:30 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=92 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=92