Writings and ramblings on SharePoint for those who are addicted to it!
The following is a SharePoint dictionary word of the day:
X-axis
Horizontal line referenced on a chart. In on premise
SharePoint can be utilized via a chart webpart. In SharePoint Online can be
utilized in Excel via a file viewer web part or via the Power BI, Power App or quick
chart web part.
Workflow interchange
(.vmi)
Microsoft Visio .zip file which contains workflow files utilized
to import the workflow design into SharePoint Designer.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
