SharePoint - Workflow Interchange (.vmi)

The following is a SharePoint dictionary word of the day:

Workflow interchange (.vmi)

Microsoft Visio .zip file which contains workflow files utilized to import the workflow design into SharePoint Designer.

Azure, SharePoint and Power Platform Offerings at the High Level

The following are several high-level Azure, SharePoint and Power Platform offerings to utilize:

1) Applications built by citizen developers

2) Big data and Internet of things

3) Bots and robotic application solutions

4) Business analytics reporting

5) Infrastructure services

6) Managed services

7) Mobile applications

8) Platform and application migrations

9) Sites that are dynamic and responsive

10) Search that is expansive

11) Security based permissions

12) Team sites that are available for collaboration

SharePoint Helping with Technical Pains

The SharePoint framework is a very deep technology which can help with these high-level aspects:

1) Paradigm shifts and existing dependencies

2) Database migration aspects

3) Managing and monitoring application aspects

4) Security aspects

5) Data governance aspects

6) Design aspects

7) System planning aspects

SharePoint and Evidence-Based Policymaking

The following are three key aspects for evidence-based policymaking with SharePoint:

Reduce un-needed spending. Using a budget can identify and eliminate ineffective and unutilized technologies.

Expand innovative programs. Use new and untested aspects to determine whether they work to identify opportunities.

Strengthen accountability. Collect and report data on program operations and outcomes to hold decision makers accountable for results.

Reengineer a Business Process with SharePoint

SharePoint is a very powerful tool which can be utilized to reengineer a business process by following these steps:

1) Identify the most important processes to be reengineered.

2) Understand and measure the existing processes and diagram it out with a business process map. 

3) Utilize the best technology to solve the problem at hand. Does out of the box technology work or does a custom solution using the Power Platform need to be utilized?

4) Create a proof of concept of the new process and then build on it as needed.

SharePoint Strategic Plan 3 High-Level Aspects

A SharePoint strategic plan needs to include the high-level aspects:

1) Ensure success - focus on developing the knowledge, character, and skills required to succeed and to adapt.

2) Promoting innovation - reimagine the role of technology needed for the needed context.

3) Advancing - ways to contribute to the promoting and advancing knowledge.

SharePoint Scope of a Project the 4 Steps

The following are four key steps in regard to the scope of a SharePoint project: 

1) Identify what is trying to be built from beginning to end. 

2) Identify what processes and technologies will be utilized in the built solution. 

3) Identify the various systems associated with the built solution that will and will not be included in the scope. 

4) Identify the department that will and will not be involved in the development of the built solution.