Leveraging Third-Party SharePoint Add-ons

Third-party software applications are growing at an amazing rate and are convincing many companies that a portal is worth the investment in time and energy based on the added value they can provide. In some cases these add-ons add to the basic feature set offered by SharePoint, and in others they enable the portal capabilities of SharePoint and allow connectivity to critical business software applications.

Data Roll-ups

One need that has emerged with SharePoint users is to have a roll-up of information in a central location. For example, there may be 20 subsites each with an announcements list and its own events list. When an employee wants to schedule a new event, she doesn't want to have to check each ...

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