Posted by Ken Allen on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 @ 03:56 PM
We asked some recent webcast participants about their top 3 most pressing SharePoint administration needs. We got a lot of response and decided to put it into www.wordle.net to make some sense of it. The result is below....clearly managing permissions, managing users, SharePoint reporting are at the top of the list. Enjoy!
Posted by Ken Allen on Mon, Apr 27, 2009 @ 08:00 AM
New Features Include Proactive Alerting, Moving Sites, and Scheduled Analysis
WOBURN, MA - April 27, 2009 - Axceler, the global leader in administration software for collaborative platforms, today announced ControlPoint 3, the newest version of the fastest growing SharePoint administration product for Microsoft SharePoint. ControlPoint 3 delivers new capabilities so you can be proactive about your SharePoint administration, including alerting, moving sites, policy management, and scheduled analysis. Experts say that the best way to avoid future problems is by thinking ahead and putting a solid, best-of-breed SharePoint infrastructure in place. ControlPoint 3, as part of that infrastructure, can help you avoid the impact as well as the costs of violating your governance policies. ControlPoint 3 is the only administration software that seamlessly lets you analyze and enforce SharePoint permissions, analyze activity storage and content, clean up user accounts, move content within farms or between farms, enforce policies and audit SharePoint environments.
ControlPoint 3 automatically alerts you when any changes are made in your environment, such as changing SharePoint permissions or adding and deleting sites. “With ControlPoint, I feel better knowing about any changes in my environment immediately,” said Karen Floyd, City of Charlotte, NC.. “Now I can react appropriately before problems can fester.”
ControlPoint 3 also lets you move site collections, sites, and lists within a farm or across farms. “The ability to move sites is critical for us," said Mike Herrity, Twynham Schools. “We often move content across departments or from test to production environments, so this will save us a huge amount of SharePoint administration time.”
ControlPoint 3 also gives you control over your SharePoint configurations to ensure they stay within your governance policies, including site themes, search settings, and permissions. With ControlPoint 3, you can also run any analysis on a pre-defined schedule and then distribute it, proactively and regularly measuring results and sharing with others such as compliance officers.
About Axceler
Since 1994, Axceler has improved the effectiveness of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino and Microsoft SharePoint administration. Based in Woburn, MA, and London, UK, Axceler can be found at www.axceler.com. More information about SharePoint administration is available on our blog or on the ControlPoint home page.
Posted by Ken Allen on Mon, Apr 21, 2008 @ 01:35 PM
Most Powerful Parametric Search, Analysis and Control for SharePoint AdministratorsOrlando, FL - April 21, 2008 - Axceler, the global leader in administration and development software for collaborative platforms, today announced the availability of ControlPoint, a comprehensive administration tool to manage Microsoft SharePoint environments. ControlPoint gives administrators the ability to search, analyze and ultimately control their SharePoint environments so they can help restore order before their environment gets out of control. ControlPoint will be unveiled for the first time at Axceler's booth #303 during SharePoint Connections, April 20-23 in Orlando, FL.
ControlPoint brings a number of benefits to an enterprise. First, administrators can visualize all the components of their SharePoint environment so they can navigate quickly and easily. Second, ControlPoint can establish better control through permissions management, making sure that only the right eyes see the right content. ControlPoint also gives administrators the ability to analyze and enforce governance policies they've put in place, enabling administrators to quickly identify non-compliant sites within their SharePoint environment and correct them. ControlPoint also provides the ability to search across the entire environment to identify potential problems with particular sites, like those close to quota or those with unique permissions. Finally, ControlPoint's security trimmed architecture allows administrators to manage, navigate, and search while only seeing what SharePoint permissions allow.
"ControlPoint is a big help in the day-to-day management of SharePoint. The intuitive, tree-oriented navigation helps me set properties on each site. Its comprehensive search lets me find sites I need to address, and the reports let me easily share my analysis with my management team to assist in their governance of SharePoint," said Andrew Watts, IT Manager, L-3 Communications.
ControlPoint honors SharePoint permissions, so all analysis, navigation, search and reports are security trimmed. ControlPoint is the first to deliver robust parametric site search for SharePoint - some of the most powerful available - so the search is quick, parameter based, and focused on the unique needs of administrators. ControlPoint leverages native SharePoint administration functions whenever possible and appropriate. Other products may force administrators to switch between multiple applications, whereas ControlPoint lets administrators find it and fix it, saving both time and energy.
"Axceler has been working with administrators for many years, so we have a solid understanding of what they need in a product to be effective in their jobs," said Michael Alden, President and CEO, Axceler, "SharePoint administrators tell us they need better control, tighter security, and complete awareness of what's going on in their environment. We are excited at the opportunity to bring our knowledge and expertise to the Microsoft SharePoint platform."
About Axceler
Axceler is the leading provider of administration and development products for collaborative platforms, including Microsoft SharePoint. Axceler empowers enterprises to address common yet critical administrative and development challenges so firms can maximize their collaborative technology investments, improve business operations, and reduce administrative time and costs. Axceler serves more than 2,000 customers around the globe in a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer products, healthcare, business services, publishing, utilities, telecom, government, and high technology. More info on Axceler can be found at http://www.axceler.com