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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

By : Adrian Colquhoun
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

By: Adrian Colquhoun

Overview of this book

The power of Microsoft SharePoint as the Enterprise collaboration platform is ever-growing; due to the wide range of capabilities it offers, SharePoint 2010 can help transform your business so you can quickly respond to the changes and challenges that you face. For End Users, SharePoint helps you and your team work "better, faster, and smarter". This book will take your SharePoint knowledge further, showing you how to use your skills to solve real business problems. While many other titles might be characterized as "SharePoint Explained", this cookbook contains advanced content that goes beyond that found in other SharePoint End User offerings: it is "SharePoint Applied". It provides recipes walking Power Users through a range of collaboration, data integration, business intelligence, electronic form, and workflow scenarios, as well as offering three invaluable business scenarios for building composite applications. The cookbook begins by providing a comprehensive treatment of SharePoint essentials, while quickly moving forward to topics like Data Integration, Business Intelligence, and automating business processes. At the end of the book, the information presented in the earlier recipes is combined to create three example SharePoint 2010 "composite applications" for Human Resources (HR), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Project Management. Composite applications are the "unique selling point" of SharePoint 2010 and understanding how to create them is the key to unlocking the business value of the product.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Author

Dr Adrian Colquhoun is a SharePoint consultant, developer, and trainer with over 15 years of enterprise software development experience. He has been working extensively with SharePoint since early 2007.

He is the founder and Managing Director of Intelligent Decisioning Ltd (id), a SharePoint-focused Gold Partner with offices in Nottingham (UK) and Brisbane (Australia). Adrian migrated permanently to Australia in early 2009 where he now leads the Australian business from their beautiful Raby Bay office (http://www.id-live.com.au).

Adrian's multiple roles as business owner, consultant, developer, trainer, and SharePoint end user give him a unique insight to pass on as an author. You can find Adrian's latest thoughts, hints, and guides on his blog at http://www.sharepoint-mentor.com or follow him on Twitter at @spmentor.

When he's not working, you can find Adrian spending time with his family, socializing with friends, fishing, indulging his passion for Rugby League, and generally taking advantage of the great lifestyle and opportunities that Australia has to offer.