Colligo Blog: Content & Knowledge Management

Last night, we had the pleasure to welcome Christian Buckley at the Vancouver SharePoint User Group (@VanSPUG) event, which is hosted monthly at Colligo’s offices. Christian is an Office 365/SharePoint MVP, IT consultant, sought-after speaker and prolific author. He gave a fantastic presentation to a packed room of local IT pros on the status of …

In a recent report about digital workplace initiatives, research firm Gartner named Colligo a “Vendor to Watch”  for collaboration and social software. Being recognized by Gartner is significant for us as it demonstrates our impact in the enterprise collaboration space. Our recent launch of the Colligo Engage platform is proof of our ongoing commitment to supporting …

Join us on October 30, 2014 at 8AM PDT / 11AM EDT for a webinar featuring Alan Pelz-Sharpe of 451 Research. Why attend? Enterprise collaboration is in crisis. Employees continue to use non-sanctioned systems, bring their own devices and rely on email to share files. The results are costly, inefficient, and fraught with security risks. Discover …

The content management market is transforming in response to social, mobile and cloud services (1). Highly personalized services are replacing the static Content Management Interfaces (CMI). Content is directed at users based on personal preferences. Wearable Internet enabled devices are showing up alongside tablets and phones as the list of multi-channel sources of created content begin …

Mine the Signals, not the Survey Responses – There are many studies showing a correlation between levels of employee engagement and business performance (Gallup, Towers Perrin, International Survey Research). For companies, engagement is a primary factor influencing performance of the business. So many go to great lengths to study, measure and ultimately influence engagement in …

For my latest webinar, I had the chance to collaborate with Microsoft Technologies Consultant, IT Unity CEO, and SharePoint MVP, Dan Holmes to discuss his key implementation of SharePoint during the NBC Olympic Winter Games at Sochi. I would like to thank all the participants from around the world for making this webinar our most …

Next week, Colligo and IT Unity are joining forces to bring you the webinar Gold Medal Collaboration: SharePoint Engagement at NBC for the Olympics. I recently met with our guest speakers, SharePoint MVP Dan Holme and Colligo CEO Barry Jinks, to discuss the success of the SharePoint implementation for NBC Olympics at the 2014 Olympic …

Last week, I had the pleasure of co-hosting a webinar with our partner Gig Werks to discuss how Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) organizations can enhance collaboration and mitigate risk with email and document management in SharePoint. Thank you to everyone who attended, I appreciated your comments. For those of you who couldn’t attend, click here to …

Call it shadow IT or rogue IT, the increasing use of unsanctioned cloud apps by employees is a symptom, not an illness. It happens primarily because employees want something that their IT department isn’t providing. Plain and simple. In a recent article published on IT Business Net, author Sarah Lahav argues that IT needs to …

With the deluge of mobile devices into the enterprise comes an IT nightmare of new dimensions. Expectations have changed. IT policies need to adapt to fit the new generation of workers, yet the requirements for security of corporate data remain. Meeting these conflicting needs is a delicate balancing act. The majority of large organizations have …