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Top 4 ways to maximize ROI on SharePoint

Author: Sriram Jayaraman Published: May 29th, 2012

Category: Enterprise Social

Investment in productivity, collaboration and social tools are always an enigma from an ROI perspective. As it is harder to quantify return on investment since most of these are tacit, semi-structured interactions. In our experience, there are many ways in which we could deliver pay back on SharePoint investments to our customers. I am listing top real world experiences which has resulted in maximized ROI in not only SharePoint but other IT investments as well.

1. Socially guided and integrated line of business plaforms: Line of business solutions are typicallu hard to use for end users who are not familiar with them. A classic example in this regard is a HR platform from ERP vendors. Organizations set up helpdesks and service centers to aid people to actually use these tools. However if we integrate and deliver these applications from a social and collaboration platform, we achieve the following:

Published: May 25th, 2012

Category: Cloud

This is Aditi Technologies’ series where we keep you updated on the critical evolution of cloud computing.  Our top stories are:

Is the Cloud Safe?

Is the Cloud safe? In a way, the answer's simple. In the case of Cloud Computing there are some additional questions to be asked, but there's nothing really outside the remit of normal IT operations. 

Author: Sriram Jayaraman Published: May 23rd, 2012

Category: Enterprise Social

I have been working with customers who have invested significantly in SharePoint 2010 as a product. However just like many other Microsoft productivity tools, SharePoint 2010 has also been largely underutilized. I am writing this blog on top experiences of mine where a SharePoint deployment has not delivered its maximum value: 

1. Not involving end users as stakeholders in the SharePoint vision process: 

IT teams perceives SharePoint as a technical and deployment driven initiative. On the contrary a success of a SharePoint deployment in terms of user adoption is dependent upon designing a comprehensive user experience. Also, if SharePoint deployment does not simplify their regular time consuming tasks simpler and faster then it will not add value to them. Therefore your SharePoint deployment fails with minimal or no adoption.

Author: Swetha Konda Published: May 21st, 2012

Category: Cloud, Test

More and more companies are moving from traditional servers to virtual servers on cloud as the software launches automatically on demand within seconds or minutes because Infrastructure as a Service is better, cheaper, faster, more fault-tolerant, and more secure than traditional servers.

Benefits of cloud computing:

1. Cloud is cheaper:  As resources are used on demand.

2. Virtually-unlimited resources: It’s easy to scale up to unlimited number of resources on demand.

3. Availability: SLA guarantees at least 99.95% uptime of the application.

Author: Srikrishnan A Published: May 17th, 2012

Category: Hiring

Interview Count: 

Telephonic: 3 

In person: 5 

Panelists:  CEO, MD, VP-HR, CFO. 

Noteworthy incidents: Somehow, the security in charge was too busy in a meeting and hence his round got discounted. Slept through the telepathic interview. 

As my profession demands, I visit at least a half a dozen clients every week. All of them are new age IT organizations that flaunt swanky offices. Aditi was no different with the high rise and modern art adorned walls. Lobby was typical. 

That’s where the similarity ended.

Author: Kumar Vishesh Published: May 16th, 2012

Category: Big Data

There is always this doubt which keeps creeping up with people who have invested or planning to invest in SharePoint 2010. 

Can the "MAJOR PORTION OF BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS" be achieved by using OOB features of SharePoint 2010 while covering all the CRITICAL functionality?

It is significant to understand the importance of capitalised terms in the above statement: