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Introduction

SharePoint 2010 is coming and we're very excited about it! We got a firsthand look at the impressive new features recently so we put together the Top 5 Things You Need to Know about SharePoint 2010.

To help get you up to speed with SharePoint 2010, we've developed the imason SharePoint Accelerator Program. This free half-day interactive session gives you access to our deep knowledge of all things SharePoint and is essential for businesses that want to maximize their SharePoint investment.

We'll be taking a closer look at SharePoint 2010 in January's newsletter.

Have a safe and happy holiday season! If you've got questions or want to discuss anything we've covered here, please get in touch.

Regards,

imason

First Look: Microsoft SharePoint 2010

We sent a number of people, including Peter Grigoriou, to the SharePoint 2010 conference in Las Vegas for a firsthand look at the new version. Peter has been using SharePoint to solve our client's business issues for seven years now, and he was quite impressed with the 2010 release!

Here are the top five things that Peter feels businesses should know:

• Social networking – Deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions just got easier. SharePoint now offers full support for micro-blogging, blogging, skills, expert search, colleague connection tracking, tag clouds, bookmarks and more.
• Better document classification – SharePoint's taxonomy management features have grown up, allowing companies to centralize content type ownership and metadata definitions. For example, your Project Management Office (PMO) can now define the project definition or status metadata requirements across all SharePoint installations.
• Multilingual support – Finally, true bi-lingual support! You no longer need to choose between a French or English SharePoint site. Now you can toggle between languages, and even localize column names and metadata values.
• Limitless folders – Gone are the days of struggling to find a way to keep list content limited to 2,000 items per folder.
• FAST integration – FAST, a leading Enterprise Search provider that was acquired by Microsoft, now comes with a highly usable SharePoint search interface. Still, I would call it a first pass integration, where some of the more advanced functionality requires more developer-oriented tools.

You can read Peter's blog to find out more on what excited him most about SharePoint 2010.

Get up to speed with imason's SharePoint Accelerator program

For those of you looking to maximize your investment in SharePoint, imason offers a free half-day information session. These interactive consultations are designed to point out common pitfalls and demonstrate the best ways to make your SharePoint investment a success.

We talk with you and decide which areas you need to cover. You can choose from:

• Strategy
• Governance
• Search
• User experience
• Training
• Migration and deployment
• Development

Then a senior imason resource with practical SharePoint experience will present on-site at your convenience. It is an interactive session - we expect your participation! We ask that you limit the audience to 8 people in order to keep the session as interactive as possible.

Interested? Click here to find out more about the SharePoint Accelerator program or talk to Kevin Clement, imason's Managing Director, to book your session.

imason knows SharePoint

We have been working with SharePoint since its original inception in 2001. imason consultants have accumulated over 150,000 hours of SharePoint experience, ranging from maximizing SharePoint business value, to custom development, to third party migrations.

Here are some of the areas that we improve through strategic SharePoint implementations:

Portals – Unlock the potential of your portal by aligning it with SharePoint's broad feature set. Find out more.

Collaboration and Social Networking – Increase productivity by enabling team sites, blogs and wikis or by building document libraries and dashboards that surface pertinent information. Find out more.

Business Process Automation – Streamline processes by automatically updating other business systems, creating process workflows and more.

Search – Harness the knowledge assets you've spent countless hours developing by customizing SharePoint's powerful enterprise search for critical applications. Find out more.

To find out how maximize your investment in SharePoint, contact Kevin Clement.