App Review: Software License Management by Future Structure

A couple of posts ago, I discussed a trio of apps for the IT Department published by CorasWorks.  The new Software License Management app by Future Structure is a very useful addition to the trio – starting to really hit the pain in IT work.  Here is my take on it.
For IT folks, managing end-user [...]

“Ready-for-Work” App Certification – The Process and the Value to You

Each of the apps in the App Store goes through a CorasWorks “Ready-for-Work” app certification process.  This includes apps published by third parties and CorasWorks that are built with CorasWorks and run in a CorasWorks on SharePoint environment.  In this article, we’ll review the standards, our process, and, how this translates into value for you.
 
“Ready-for-Work” [...]

IT Department App Trio for SharePoint Released

Over the last few days we’ve released a trio of plug-and-play apps that play nicely together to get an IT Department working productively on SharePoint.  They consist of the Department Dashboard, Work Order Approval app and Help Desk.  They all run on the AppEngine for SharePoint.  In this article, we’ll talk about how they work [...]

AppEngine – What is in it? What is not?

In my last post I gave a brief intro to the AppEngine for SharePoint.  In this post, I’ll drill into the details of what is in it and what it not?  This is important for those that are building apps for the AppEngine as a target app platform, whether you are an independent application publisher, [...]

AppEngine for SharePoint – Quick Intro

This week, we released the AppEngine for SharePoint.  This new product is a key piece of our go forward product line.  In this intro article I’ll cover what it is, what you can do with it, and what is in it.
 
 What is it?
The AppEngine provides you with an extensive “app” runtime system for SharePoint.  It [...]