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Live, eat, breath SharePoint

SharePoint is one of Microsoft's (many) success stories. Topping $1.2 billion in the company's fiscal year 2008 results, SharePoint Server grew at about 30%. That means a lot of you are buying and deploying the software and, hopefully, your users are collaborating like crazy and being far more productive for the business than ever before.

But you really don't know how collaborative or productive people are unless you know how they are using the content and services in SharePoint.

So the folks at Nintex USA LLC in Bellevue, Wash. are releasing today Nintex Reporting 2008, which will give you the scoop on everything from the most popular spreadsheet among your finance types to the most-updated slide deck used by the field sales force as well as which Web sites are getting traffic and who's finding forums useful.

If it happens in SharePoint, Nintex wants you to know about it. According to Mike Fitzmaurice, vice president of technology, the software comes with 75 reports. He says you can customize existing ones or write completely news ones, if you're handy with SQL.

Fitzmaurice explains that Nintex Reporting 2008 gathers date from SharePoint activity and pours it into a SQL Server data warehouse. The Reporting front end, he claims makes it easy to extract information in almost anyway you wish. However, with 75 reports at your fingertips, you'd have to be an info glutton to want more.

Nintex Reporting 2008 starts at $8,750.

What People Are Saying

Reporting tools

All I know about reporting tools for SharePoint is that my company is using Windward Arrow and I'm more than content with it.

Reports are designed in Word or Excel and then generated and shared via SharePoint...

Love it!
http://www.windwardreports.com/arrow.htm

Microsoft -what are you thinking

We are one of the early adopters of Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 and built a very useful enterprise Proposal Collaboration system. The system housed all MS Office documents and MS Publisher documents for Marketing brochures etc.
In 2003, we could content search the MS Publisher documents and for some unfathomable reason, they took that capability away in MOSS 2007. This virtually crippled our ability to locate our Publisher documents in the greater than 5000 sites and document libraries and therefore increased frustration on user adoption of MOSS 2007.

What is not understandable is that MS Publisher is a Microsoft application. Adobe ifilter exists for us to search PDF documents. At least Microsoft should provide an ifilter for their *.pub documents.

Way to go Microsoft and you should write about this and hopefully shame Microsoft in fixing what should have been a given.

very bad "article"

if you want to call it "marketing"... ok.

if you want to call it professional article– then at least explain even in short what’s it good for, what’s the added value, and why is it better the existing solution… never mind the celebration of launching "new product", even if Fitzmaurice is a good friend.

grammar police

Sorry, but I could not restrain myself. The title should be "Live, eat, breathe SharePoint". "breath" is a noun.