Today’s guest post is authored by Christian Buckley, globally-recognized Microsoft MVP, author, and technology evangelist. He is the founder and CEO of CollabTalk, an independent research and technical marketing services company. Follow him via @buckleyplanet. Christian explored these concepts further as our expert guest speaker on our webinar: Mastering Knowledge and Records Management in Office …

A recent white paper, The ROI Benefits of Business Critical SharePoint authored by Microsoft and Pique Solutions, an independent research and analysis firm, defined a business critical system as one that: “Extends and automates important business processes across, and even beyond, organizational boundaries by exposing line of business (LOB) data, and allowing it to be …

A Busy Week at #SPC12: Mobile, SharePoint 2013, Windows 8, Surface RT, & Bon Jovi! What a fantastic week at the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas! Colligo’s booth was very busy showing our brand new Colligo Briefcase for Android and Mac OS X, Colligo Email Manager, and talking with attendees from all over. The mobility …

Bruce Miller of RIM Tech reviews the new GimmalSoft Compliance Suite for DoD 5015.2 compliance, which includes the Colligo Contributor Add-In for Outlook, and calls it a “market game changer.”

The Colligo team has returned from an incredibly successful Microsoft Tech·Ed 2011 conference in Atlanta. The conference provided an excellent opportunity for us to talk to a lot of our customers and to also touch base with many of our partners in the SharePoint eco-system. This year, we heard a lot of interesting talk on both “cloud strategies” and how to support the increasingly large number of new devices that are finding their way into organizations. These are two topics that I’m sure will dominate the discussion in many IT departments in the months to come.

The European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011 was held last week in London and Colligo not only attended but were proud sponsors of the event. This year saw nearly 100 session by 70 speakers in just 3 days. This year’s event wasn’t affected by the ash cloud of last year and the attendance definitely reflected the fact that people were able to travel unhindered to the conference. The Exhibitors Hall was packed for the kick off party and during the lunch breaks!

Congratulations to Microsoft for <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/office365/online-software.aspx" target="_blank">releasing the public beta of Office 365</a>. The buzz that we’re hearing about <a title="Office 365" href="http://www.colligo.com/sharepoint-solutions/business/office-365-cloud/">Office 365</a> is incredible and we’ve talked to a lot of customers who are looking at either moving totally to Office 365 or creating a hybrid environment with both on-premise and cloud-based SharePoint.

We’re really proud to have been the first company in our market to <a href="/news-releases/colligo-networks’-contributor-pro-suite-introduces-industry-leading-support-for-microsoft-office-365/">announce support for Office 365 </a>and actually had Microsoft demonstrate <a title="Colligo Contributor" href="http://www.colligo.com/products/contributor/">Colligo Contributor</a> working with Office 365 at the AIIM/Info360 conference in Washington, DC in March. The presentation showed how a user can move content to SharePoint libraries located on-premise or in the cloud from within the Outlook interface.

Social media has made a huge impact on the way companies communicate with customers, prospects and other stakeholders. At Colligo, we’ve really taken social media to heart and have made it an integral part of both our culture and our communication strategy. An important component of our social media initiatives is the creation of our own Colligo Networks YouTube Channel.