One way our applications boost the power of SharePoint and Office 365 is through the use of Application Portals. These Application Portals give users ways to engage effectively with our applications, thereby driving user adoption and accelerating usage of SharePoint and Office 365. Application Portals differ from Intranets, Team Sites, and Comm Sites in [...]
In our article Choosing Resilience Over Reliability, we discussed the difference between "imagined systems" and "found systems." The former are built for reliability, with backups and failover systems in-place; the assumption is that things will work as they are supposed to. The latter are designed for resilience with the ability to recover quickly from [...]
As a concept, Office 365 Groups initially existed as a way to group together people with a shared commonality (e.g., working together on the same project). This grouping mechanism was largely relegated to basic applications, such as security, permissions, and distribution. Microsoft had a plan for Groups, however, and now that plan is starting [...]
The SharePoint momentum continued last month when Microsoft held the SharePoint Virtual Summit, with announcements of new features for SharePoint and Office 365 – changes to OneDrive, Groups, Flow, PowerApps, and the SharePoint Framework. Also announced was “SharePoint Communication Sites”, aka “Comm Sites”, an alternative to SharePoint Team Sites. In a post in Microsoft’s [...]
At Crow Canyon we know that using our SharePoint software applications can contribute substantially to lowering costs and increasing efficiency, while providing better service to employees and customers. We know this because we have seen it happen for so many of our customers. Our initial conversations with customers frequently involve discussing how a legacy [...]
I had the opportunity at the recent Denver SharePoint Fest to attend Chris McNulty’s presentation on “SharePoint Business Apps”. McNulty, a Microsoft Senior Product Manager, covered a lot of ground, but I want to focus on one area he emphasized – Transforming Business Processes with SharePoint & Office 365. McNulty presented three aspects of [...]
The premiere set of business applications just made your job more efficient. With SharePoint and Office 365 continuing to grow rapidly, Microsoft is focused on adding new features and functionality to these platforms, aiming to keep improving what it calls “the most complete and secure productivity and collaboration suite.” Last week, Jeff Teper, Corporate [...]
“The future of SharePoint is now,” declared Jeff Teper, Microsoft Corporate VP of Office, OneDrive, and SharePoint, during his Keynote address at the May 6th Twin Cities SharePoint Saturday. Noting that May 6 is just over one year after Microsoft’s Future of SharePoint announcements on May 4, 2016, he welcomed attendees to the “second year [...]
Survey of 600 companies shows only 1/4 completely on Office 365 A recently completed research report, "Understanding the State of the Hybrid SharePoint Ecosystem", provides some interesting insights into the adoption of Office 365 versus SharePoint on-premises. In survey of over 600 companies, the researchers found that only 22 percent of the respondents are [...]
The brain is a powerful organ that can tackle an amazing amount of data, but keeping track of hundreds or thousands of simultaneous processes is not one of its strong suits. This is best left to computers, which brings us to a business sector that is characterized by a stunning number of moving parts: [...]
Crow Canyon Software builds upon your existing collaboration platforms in Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilots to give your staff the tools they need to drive business process automation.
We provide an integrated, modular set of applications from which you can pick and choose the best solution for your organization.
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