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SharePoint: A Legal Killer App | ABA Journal - Law News Now

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:29:48 -0000

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even a solo lawyer can use SharePoint for less than $50 per month. Microsoft has continued to refine the tool, and it might be time to put SharePoint on your technology to-do list.

SharePoint is a software platform used for hosting customizable websites where multiple users can share documents and work on projects

The key to SharePoint is something called “Web parts,” small software applets or controls that provide a set of functions, like a task list or a discussion board.

Web parts then act as controls that interact with other programs and pull information from a variety of sources, including law office programs, databases and websites, all without the user needing to know anything about the underlying programming.

The result is a personalized portal page where you and everyone else given access can find, see and manage all of the relevant information for your project in a familiar, easy-to-learn Web format.

web-parts = applets that pull information from an external program or source [on the office server or on the web] and deploy the information on the "SharePoint" website in boxes built into the overall page posted by mhedayat

Click on a link and you open a document or read an e-mail without moving from program to program. And with a few quick clicks you can move your list of documents around the page or change fonts and colors without affecting anyone else’s experience

Tags: application collaboration e2.0 law2.0 lawyers microsoft sharepoint web-based

Posted by: mhedayat

The Office question 2007 | Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog:

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:31:55 -0000

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As I argued in my post Office Generations last year, we're in the early stages of the "hybrid phase" of personal productivity applications, when most people will use web apps to extend rather than replace their old Office apps. This phase will play out over a number of years as the web technologies mature, at which point it will become natural to use purely web-based apps (with, probably, continued local caching of data and program code).

What this means is that Microsoft has a good opportunity to maintain Office's dominance during the switchover by pursuing what it calls its "software plus services" strategy. But Microsoft should be anything but complacent right now. Maintaining market dominance does not necessarily mean maintaining traditional levels of profitability. The biggest threat posed by online alternatives may well be to undermine Microsoft's pricing power - a trend we're already seeing in the student market.

It's all about interoperability and functionality without disruption to existing business processes. posted by garyedwards

Tags: collaboration interoperability office office20 w3c web

Posted by: garyedwards

Application Development Trends - TeamDrive Embraces ODF and OpenOffice.org

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:45:52 -0000

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Primesharing has announced an OpenOffice - ODF collaboration service. posted by garyedwards

Tags: collaboration odf

Posted by: garyedwards