I have a confession to make. When I was graduating from high school back in the 90s, I was asked a bunch of questions about the future. One of them was, “Will cellular phones replace land lines?” I answered, “No, never.” Today, of course, I haven’t had a land...
There's been an interesting theme running through the blogs and Twitter conversations of late identifying a shift, perhaps, of content and focus around the SharePoint platform, moving from IT Pro and Developer-centric to Business User-centric
However, I suspect that we will see the rise of a new breed of developers, IT Pros and LOB experts that will come from the ranks for students
Should it really be Developers & IT Pros? No, it should be Information Professionals or better yet, Certified Information Professionals . Information Pros need space just as much as Developers & IT Pros. We're the people that have been busy developing models of governance (or rather, reworking the models of Governance that we've used since the days of Microfilm) and have been driving forward the conversation about how SharePoint can be used as a "proper" ECM (and yes, maybe even ERM) system
In order to do these things correctly, and to ensure adoption, an organization has to possess a broad array of skills that fall into the following categories: IT Pro Information Architecture Software Development Evangelist & Trainer The IT Pro’s job is to set up and configure the platform which requires, at a minimum, a firm understanding of hardware, virtualization, Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint (configuration and administration)
My Recommendations for a Recruiting / Job Skills Track would include: Track Writing a Resume / CV that gets you noticed - For Technical Professionals -- IT Pros -- Developers -- Line Of Business (LOB) Track What are the Skills, Certifications and Competencies Companies are looking for today (and tomorrow) Track What Role does a Recruiter play in helping you find your ideal role?
According to a Symantec survey of 1,680 IT pros and legal executives in 26 countries, 75% of backup data are retained infinitely or kept for legal holds
Last week, at the annual Digitech Systems ECM Partner Event in Denver, Nucleus Research announced findings that should put a smile on the faces of service providers, IT pros, office admins and others trying to push enterprise content management (ECM) systems up the value chain in their organizations
While there is healthy opportunity for IT Pro and consultant alike in building out customized SharePoint environments, increasingly organizations are looking to the partner ecosystem to automate SharePoint, and simplify the complexity of the platform to allow the average employee to do much more, to have more control of their environment
I am a very passionate technology advocate, writing through my personal site ( buckleyPLANET.com ), my company site ( info.Axceler.com/blog ), NothingButSharePoint.com (I manage the IT Pro channel), and now through AIIM.org
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