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.
Internet Research Group just announced the release of a new report on SharePoint entitled “Microsoft SharePoint (takes over the world)”. Cool Title!
The press release mentions Colligo and a number of other third parties in the SharePoint ecosystem, such as AvePoint, Quest Software, and K2.
I had a spin through the report and found a few interesting tidbits. It starts off with an estimate of the number of SharePoint licenses currently in use. There is a section on use cases that is quite comprehensive and outlines the primary reasons why companies deploy SharePoint. I agree with the reports conclusions on the two most impactful use cases as well. There is also a good section on key vendor implications and how SharePoint is changing the IT landscape, particularly for companies exploring web 2.0 applications. The section on the SharePoint ecosystem is a bit short in my opinion. I would have liked to see more depth there, but perhaps that could be the subject of another report.
I’d recommend this report to anyone who is looking for a quick overview of SharePoint and its implications.
If you want to enquire further about the report, you can send an email here.
I received the latest issue of Windows IT Pro by good old snail mail yesterday. Here’s a link to the online edition. Nice to see Colligo named a couple of times in there – once for the Best of Tech Ed Award in Productivity and Collaboration and once for Bronze in the 2008 Editors Best Award in SharePoint.
The other Editors Best award winners in the SharePoint category were Quest Software and AvePoint. We are really honored to be named alongside these leaders in the SharePoint space. In fact, Quest received quite a few awards as you can see from this press release.
Speaking of Quest, they released their Q2 quarterly earnings report yesterday. Revenue was up year over year by 22% and it was a record. It’s worth listening to their conference call to see the emphasis they are placing on SharePoint.
