Make Better Technology Decisions Faster

Your business generates information and that information, in turn, drives your company. It allows you to make smarter decisions about how to run your business. Finding smart ways to manipulate and aggregate your information will provide you with an advantage over your competition. But how do you go about maximizing all of the information and content that your company generates? What data is useful and what is noise? Are there technologies available that can be used to manage all of this information?

The short answer is - Yes. But, which technology is best for your business? That's where Kollabria comes in. We research the companies and the technologies that handle the information your company uses.

Our experts look beneath the marketing description of each product and technology to determine what they can really do, and we add to it smart ways to leverage the technology in order to gain maximum benefit from it. We deliver our research, consulting and advice in a variety of ways and you can learn more about them below.

Educational Tours - Fall 2011

SharePoint Business Professional™ Training & Certification Program

The Missing Business Manual for SharePoint

This is a training class about SharePoint 2010.  An optional certification test allows you to obtain certification credentials.  The program concentrates on the effective business utilization of SharePoint 2010 as a information management platform. The training course will provide a detailed overview of how SharePoint 2010 can be used to maximize business benefit, and will provide the analyst criteria necessary to plan, design and implement those solutions.  

SharePoint is a powerful and complex collaborative information management platform for your business. We at Kollabria have called it a "Business Operating System".  Just like a traditional operating system supports the operation of a computer as an integrated system of hardware and software, a business operating system is a platform that supports the deployment of applications across functional business lines and controls the ability to integrate, distribute and manage the information used by those applications.  

SharePoint offers a plethora of ways to manage and distribute content of any kind. It is capable of automating business processes around the globe, publishing content to websites, and securely interacting with data coming from legacy sources in ways previously unimaginable.  While it can do all those things, it can also quite easily allow you to loose all control over that content, create security nightmares and build productivity applications that workers simply refuse to use.  

Critical success factors we have researched over the course the past 5 years, show that SharePoint is capable of doing those wonderful things only if you can harness its features and capabilities from a business point of view. Then you can save money that you might otherwise spend on other applications, then you candramatically improve worker and business productivity, and then you will have harnessed the elusive power that lets your business do more with less. Others have done that, the goal of this course is to make it easier for you to do the same.

In a nutshell, Microsoft has provided the technology to build powerful and exciting business applications with SharePoint, but does not provide a manual for business in how to use it.

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Consulting & Research Services

Kollabria offers a variety of research and consulting services for vendors and users alike. Our programs range from a free library of largely vendor sponsored content (hence its free for you), a la carte research items available in our research center, executive access to research for individual subscribers and company advisory programs to help users and vendors alike make better technology decisions faster.

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Visit any of our additional websites below to learn more about technologies, applications and trends.

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Kollabria Research - Make better technology decisions faster

The Kollabria research store lets you download free reports and information, register for educational tours, and to purchase high value, high impact reports and other vendor independent content written by a unique team of technology analysts with nearly 75 years of combined technology experience.

Techinfobook - I learned about it on techinfobook.com

We have assembled a comprehensive free directory of companies, vendors, products, solutions and educational content in one place. Your search for document management, document imaging, enterprise content management, workflow and SharePoint-based ECM solutions is over. It's all here. No membership is required to use Techinfobook to research products and vendors.

Techinfocenter - The better way to talk to the experts

Our social community is designed so that anyone can openly discuss information management technologies and best practices.