A recent Forrester publication has found that organizations can achieve significant financial and productivity benefits by consolidating collaboration, document management, internal and external portals, and search onto SharePoint 2010 as their ...[Read More]

The Office Depot Super Bowl commercial, “We Fix Six Dollar Haircuts” really struck a chord with us here at Risetime. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a brief synopsis… a small but established barbershop owner is disappointed to see a competing hairc ...[Read More]

Annual employee reviews are often viewed by managers and employees alike as a necessary evil. Management requires them to ensure the duties of a given employee are being met, and to set goals and responsibilities for the position. And employees ar ...[Read More]

Now that the release of SharePoint 2010 is just around the corner, planning for an upgrade now will allow for a smooth and easy transition. SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), available only through select Microsoft Gold Certified Partne ...[Read More]

It's official, the big announcement came on Friday afternoon at 2:15.   SharePoint 2010 has been released to manufacturing.   Here are the next big dates:   1. Available for Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) clients on Tuesday, April 27th for ...[Read More]

There are a number of ways to tune the performance of your web application, but how you retrieve your data, and what data you retrieve, can have a large impact.  While it is easier to sequentially load all of the data your application could need, ...[Read More]

In the last couple of weeks there have been some major announcements from Microsoft for a mid-May public release of SharePoint 2010. While not guarantees of release dates, they should be considered when planning out your next SharePoint project.   ...[Read More]

As you probably know, the Beta version of SharePoint 2010 has been released and the reviews are starting to come in. In general, the consulting community is giving SharePoint 2010 very high marks, and we're looking forward to seeing it implemented ...[Read More]

Enterprise 2.0 is becoming a big part of every organizations strategy to work better, smarter, and faster. You are probably aware that SharePoint is a great fit for most organizations' document management and collaboration needs. What about social ...[Read More]

With the latest trends in the Web 2.0 and Intranet hosted applications, many companies are rushing to embrace these technologies without fully weighing the benefits and detriments.  While today's rich web solutions can handle many business operati ...[Read More]