Hello World!

I am Bill England and this is my first foray into a blogging. Barry Jinks, our CEO at Colligo, is a regular blogger (www.offlinesharepoint.com) and has been encouraging me to participate. Inertia has gotten in the way until now, but Jeffrey Gitomer was recently in town and helped me over come old Newton.

The primary purpose of this blog is corporate in nature, but other interesting tidbits will be included along the way. I have worked for Colligo Networks since mid-2005, which was just before we launched our SharePoint product family called Colligo Contributor. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner developing and marketing software products extending and enhancing SharePoint. My focus at Colligo is North American sales, so my contribution to the community (hopefully) will be to provide comments on the client and prospect use cases. Other SharePoint information will be thrown in the mix here and there, as well as commentary on working as ISV in the Microsoft ecosystem.

My first article will be on the use of InfoPath and Form Libraries offline with Colligo Contributor. We have a number of current clients and prospects adopting a field reporting architecture that leverages these technologies. I will explore this topic further in the coming weeks.