Tag: SharePoint Online

How the pros build workflows in SharePoint

If you follow the Kiefer blog, you might have noticed that we spend a lot of time writing about the benefits of automation and the value of streamlining business workflows.  Our team has experience with a wide range of tools to help organizations save time and effort and bring consistency and efficiency to tasks that are performed on a regular basis.  This blog covers a few of the tools you might consider when you are looking to build SharePoint workflows.

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Making the Move to Azure.

The Microsoft Azure platform is quickly becoming a very popular choice for organizations that are considering cloud options. Microsoft continues to invest heavily in Azure and the migration to the cloud is gaining traction. For a while, clients were reluctant to move core applications and data to the cloud, however, the Azure platform is proving itself to be a secure and reliable solution for organizations in both the public and private sector.

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Using electronic signatures to improve workflow.

In August, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to clarify how government agencies could accept signatures on documents electronically.

Brown signed Assembly A.B. 2296, which is designed to set clear standards around how state and local agencies can use both electronic and digital signatures. Read the article

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eDiscovery Capabilities in Office 365: An Overview

​Total litigation costs of the Fortune 500 is about $210 billion according to survey conducted by metrocorpcounsel.com.  

Growing risk of Information theft and the ever changing business environment has increased litigation cases significantly.  

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How to get better looking search results in SharePoint.

Ever wanted to make your roll-up of content look better than the out of the box (OOB) look and feel provided by SharePoint? If you have used a Content Search Web Part in SharePoint 2013 you know what I mean. The OOB templates provided to display the search results are not as spectacular anymore and it would be great to make it look so much better.

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5 ways to get your users to love SharePoint

One of the problems with SharePoint is that, for many of its users, there’s a day when it “just appears.” IT is tasked with rolling out this technology and users of business units are tasked with moving documents into one of their team’s document libraries and suddenly start working on documents from within that library.

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Governance can be fun!

Ok…my bad. My title is a little misleading…
Anyone who’s ever been involved in developing and implementing a SharePoint solution to support a public-facing website, or Intranet/Collaboration sites, or a custom application, probably has never made the statement that “Governance is Fun”. Developing a Governance Plan and implementing the policies and procedures to actively manage your SharePoint environments and solutions is hard work, but it is absolutely necessary work to ensure success and adoption of your SharePoint solutions.

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Using Infopath? Nintex is the way forward with forms.

At the time Microsoft began their marketing momentum for SharePoint 2013, it also announced the end of InfoPath was on the horizon. Since then, organizations who have invested funding into the use of InfoPath’s form tools have been searching for tools to both replace and enhance InfoPath functionality. In the third-party market, there are robust forms tools available for purchase that address the need for organizations of all sizes to review in order to understand whether they meet the needs of their organizational goals for providing forms tools with business process automation.

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