Entries for the 'SharePoint' Category

DMC and the Alliance for Illinois Manufacturing are sponsoring a complimentary executive lunch briefing on March 4, 2010.  The event’s topic, Use Technology You Already Own to Operate Efficiently and Competitively, will focus on using Microsoft SharePoint to make better decisions by tracking key performance indicators, cut costs by operating more efficiently and increase innovation by enablin... [Read the rest of this blog...]

We have added a few new Case Studies that showcase two of the business areas in which we recently have had a number of projects: Sharepoint Development and Battery Testing.

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Looking back over the last three years of implementing SharePoint solutions for a wide variety of clients (large and small), I would say this is the number one question clients ask me when looking to get started on their first SharePoint portal solution.  I think it is definitely one of the first questions you should try to answer when planning your SharePoint solution.  After all, selec... [Read the rest of this blog...]

  Recently, we created a help forum at DMC to share information between all of our engineers. Our goal was to create a standard place for people to ask questions and leverage our company’s collective experience and knowledge. It was also desirable that this information be stored in a reviewable manner so that questions only have to be answered once. Microsoft SharePoint provided a... [Read the rest of this blog...]

DMC has earned its fourth Microsoft competency:  Information Worker.  The Information Worker competency recognizes DMC’s investment and dedication to delivering world-class SharePoint Solutions for its customers.  This new competency demonstrates DMC’s proficiency and experience implementing Microsoft SharePoint solutions.  Microsoft awards competencies to partners who ha... [Read the rest of this blog...]

When developing a SharePoint solution, there are many choices of development environments to get the job done, but they are not all equal. Once you’ve figured out the purpose of the page, how many web-parts are required for that purpose, and what the inputs for each web-part are, only then can you consider which development environment is appropriate according. Imagine the following options as a ... [Read the rest of this blog...]

On a recent project, I was given an interesting challenge by a customer using SharePoint.  Basically the desire was to have a recursive "For loop" function in SharePoint using nothing but native tools (i.e. workflows).  Googling the subject, I found very little helpful information, but I was able to come up with a workable solution of my own and thought it was worth b... [Read the rest of this blog...]

At DMC we make heavy use of Microsoft SharePoint in almost everything we do from project management to financial tracking.  We use Excel Services to display real time key performance indicators.  Several of us in the office have recently updated to Internet Explorer 8.  A couple of us have found a peculiar problem with IE8 and SharePoint pages with Excel Services.  The pr... [Read the rest of this blog...]