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A couple weeks back I got wind of a customer that wanted to address a very straightforward problem – getting Marketing and Sales to work better together.  This is an area that can benefit every commercial organization.  With a bit of inspiration, we came up with a rather nifty way of addressing this challenge by [...]

The driver to adopt Idea Management comes from two primary directions.  One is the desire to tap into your community for more and better ideas.  The other is to extend existing (or new) business processes to get more input and interaction from a broader audience.  Usually, people are coming from one or the other perspective.  [...]

In my previous post, I went into detail about moving to a proactive, event-driven approach for driving “ideation” and the different types of idea communities including Standing Communities, Challenges, Campaigns, and Contests.  In this article, I will drill down into 4 business scenarios and look at the more end-to-end process of planning your activities.
We’ll [...]

In my overview to CorasWorks Idea Management solution for SharePoint, I touched on our support for custom-tailored, event-driven idea communities, such as Campaigns and Challenges.  In this article, I’ll drill down into what these are and how this approach to idea management complemented by the new Web 2.0-style feature sets drive improved effectiveness.
Most people [...]

In my previous post, I did an overview of the new CorasWorks-Fpweb.net service offerings for the Cloud.  In this article, I’ll take a look at three core scenarios for the Cloud offering that are ready to go.
Community Extranet in the Cloud (Extension of Intranet)
This is an obvious scenario.  Most existing SharePoint customers use it in [...]

It is time for some apps in the Cloud…  Through a partnership with Fpweb.net, the CorasWorks app platform on SharePoint is now available as a service in the Cloud. It is a powerful offering bringing all of the pieces together.  In this article, I’ll give you a quick overview of the new service offerings.
First, [...]

Being able to relate information across SharePoint lists and libraries is important but fraught with a number of gotchas. A key ingredient for this is the ability to create unique and distinctive ID’s that work well with calculated columns and lookups. CorasWorks has had our Workplace ID field in our Toolset and AppEngine products for [...]

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 [...]

Refreshed from my 4-part, enterprise C2C Content Service blog series, it is time to turn back to a good old straight-forward productivity app.  The Task Management Console for SharePoint is the first app published by Future Structure for the App Store – it fits the bill nicely.
Very simply, this is an add-on that makes [...]

CorasWorks and partners are releasing more and more apps to the App Store.  Typically, the business applications are being provided in one of two basic configurations – Local or One Touch.  I’ll briefly cover the differences between the two.
 
Local configuration is the classic way of providing portable apps.  By portable, we mean apps that can [...]