WOBURN, MA – January 10, 2012 –Axceler®, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migrationsoftware, today announced that it has entered a partnership with Jornata®, a leading business and technology services provider, to help organizations better manage their SharePoint environments, particularly those in the financial services, healthcare and life sciences/pharmaceutical industries.
Axceler Will Address Largest Ever D.C.-Area SharePoint Event
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administration and migration, will share its expertise in SharePoint governance, security and management for government and other public agencies as lead sponsor of the first “SharePoint Saturday The Conference ” (www.spstc.org) in the Washington, D.C.
Axceler, GraceHunt Announce Partnership In SharePoint Solutions Market
WOBURN, MA– June 6, 2011 –Axceler,the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administrationand migration, today announced that it has entered a partnership with fellow Microsoft partner GraceHunt to collaborate on SharePoint solutions and services. Under the partnership, GraceHunt will resell Axceler’s products, ControlPoint for SharePoint management and Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010 migration. In addition, the two companies plan extensive joint marketing, events and service offerings designed to assist their mutual customers get control over their SharePoint deployments, with a special focus on governance, management and migration.
“We’ve been working with Axceler and their products for quite a while, so making our partnership formal and more extensive was a logical next step,” said Carol Swartz, vice president of sales and marketing for Hudson, MA-based GraceHunt. “By combining their high-quality software for SharePoint administration and migration with our training and consulting services, it’s a win-win for customers who need SharePoint governance assistance.
"Our partnership with GraceHunt reflects the growing need of enterprises for help with their SharePoint governance, administration and migration challenges,” said Jill Kunkel, Axceler’s Channel Sales Manager, North America. “We’re pleased to identify opportunities for our customers to benefit from GraceHunt’s excellent SharePoint governance planning services. Together we can offer our customers more comprehensive support for their SharePoint governance needs.”
What is content management?
Real Group Story: "The goal in implementing content technologies and related processes is really to apply management principles to content. Unfortunately, "management" too frequently gets conflated with "control." This is a common thread through many definitions of ECM in particular: "controlling unstructured information." Yet, management is much more than control. Good management also features enablement and empowerment. Management implies rules, but also supports creativity -- often in different amounts in different contexts."
Quoting IT: Corporate Blogging
-Tim Bray, Director of Web technologies at Sun Microsystems Inc., "Keeping Secrets in a WikiBlogTubeSpace World", ComputerWorld, March 19, 2007
Quoting IT: Career Ladder
"Why have IT report to accounting? You show me a company where the CIO reports to the CFO, and I'll show you a company lagging in its industry in the use of technology."
Benjamin Salzmann, Acuity CEO, Quoted in "CIO to CEO: If You Want to Move Up", ComputerWorld, December 18, 2006
Quoting IT: Good managers know IT
"In today’s global economy, a company’s success or failure may hinge on the ability to implement technology to remain competitive. The business managers of tomorrow must be able to see the big picture while also understanding the nuts and bolts that keep everything running. The type of thinking that was once left to technologists is now essential for business managers."
C.J. Kelly, "Can a Manager Be a Techie and Survive?", Computerworld, November 20, 2006
C.J. Kelly is the alias for a security manager that wishes to hide her real name and employer in her articles for Computerworld.
Those in IT with any ambition to move up the ranks need to understand their organization's business better, obviously. What isn't acknowledged so readily by management is the need for managers to know IT better.
Baseline: How To Recruit and Retain I.T. talent.
"But where would we be without the information technology workers whose vision and drive made those technologies come to life within their corporations?
It's a question that chief information officers find themselves asking more often these days. Indeed, CIOs are staring at a future with an aging workforce, a shrinking number of computer science students and an intensifying competition for information technology talent."
IT Quote of the Week
"Coming in with answers when you don't have a real deep sense of the environment is very dangerous."
-Amelia "Mely" Tynan, CIO, Tufts University, quoted in "CIOs on the Move: How five IT chiefs made the leap to new companies", ComputerWorld, August 21, 2006.
