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There is a type of applications for financial processes that is focused on closing period activities. To achieve it, companies invest a significant amount of time, energy and money into the process. My client is one of them and we have provided some solutions that works in this direction: automate as much as possible. Working … Read more
During these months I face the service renewal activities. This summary list just tries to review the concepts to be taken into account during these discussions. A) In general take into account: The previous year consumption. The previous year major activities. Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threads The business challenges for next year. B) Highlight added value, … Read more
A tool to remind, the 2010 SharePoint Server Farm Report tool provides you information available that helps you to understand the complete configuration of your farm. http://spsfarmreport.codeplex.com/ From the link: “This is a 64-bit executable that relies on .NET Framework 3.5. This assembly can only run on x64 Windows operating systems where SharePoint Foundation 2010, … Read more
One milestone that should be always be defined in a project from the control point of view is that Project Manager will notify the Client when the spend against budget reaches 80%. Doing an analysis about reasons that can make the project to be over budget at the end of the project. One formal STOP … Read more
Managing the contract renewal process of an applications portfolio means for me that I have to discuss with different portfolio managers from the customer. The renewal process is done with customer portfolio leads, but the details are obtained from and with each one of the application lead. Reach this point, there are 2 type of portfolio managers: First … Read more
I’m reading a book that talks about how the jobs we do today will disappear in 20 years or less; how this time is decreasing and how the change speed is increasing. Some people find this as a terrible news, but I find it as a fantastic news. Nowadays I’m doing my current position for … Read more
SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions offer organizations with solutions that address risk management, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Key points to have in my mind: Understand the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Control the type or nature of the risks and their volumes International goods (purchase /sell) Enable an approval chart that reply to your organization … Read more
Microsoft provides the Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework (MSOCAF) to customers for use in analysing custom solutions, testing the deployment of the custom solutions, and submitting them for installation in the SharePoint Online environment. What is your experience using it? Which valuable information provides it to you? Is there some negative aspect of using … Read more
Once that I have been involved in a SharePoint project and taking into account that my client is deploying a BPOS-D Office 365 environment, I’m learning about all application lifecycle for potential opportunities. Before to design one SharePoint application to Office 365 there is a set of supported features that can determine that your application is … Read more
I’m configuring the e-commerce solution, and these are my feelings: The first steps are very easy and the user experience is quite good. You do not need to go to the help section. To create/upload products is easy. The FAQ provided by the vendor is not so much complete. The way to link one domain … Read more