Standard Operating Procedures – A complete guide! – Format & Writing StyleWelcome back to the fourth in our series of blogs describing the Key elements in the SOP lifecycle. So far we have introduced the ‘SOP pie’ and have dived into the first two slices. This blog will dig further into the third slice – […]
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Standard Operating Procedures – A complete guide!Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are key to many businesses these days. Not only do they document the successful process to maintain a quality product, output or procedure. In many circumstances they are the key to ensuring regulatory compliance. This SOP guide provides an overview of the creation process. The creation […]
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What are Policies and why they are importantPolicies, procedures, compliance and adherence are terms that are widely used throughout organizations worldwide. However, you could be forgiven for thinking they are the perfect oxymoron! How can a set of rules intended to maintain standards, be so widely and differently interpreted and implemented?Although different organizations create policies […]
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New User Management features released in DocRead version 3Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. DocRead version 3.0 introduces a new User Management section that makes keeping on top of your DocRead licence restrictions so much easier. Licences are assigned to a user when the first DocRead task is assigned to them, […]
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Are you and your staff GDPR Compliant?When the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was introduced in May 2018, it represented a big step in the data privacy protection legislation in the UK. For thousands of businesses GDPR highlights a very daunting compliance challenge around how they handle and report on data. Organisations that fail to […]
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Eight benefits of using SharePoint as an ExtranetSharePoint has a long history of being put to work as an enterprise grade Intranet platform, allowing organisations of all shapes and sizes to drive employee collaboration and communication. Its use as an Extranet tool isn’t quite so common, which is mainly down to some companies not fully […]
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Running a SharePoint software companyWhen setting out on the road to develop and sell a product in SharePoint – as we were four years ago – you will more than likely have the idea that writing the code and perfecting your product is the key to success. You will probably have thoughts like “My app […]
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How to send an email when a SharePoint site or web is deletedFor various governance reasons you may want to email the site owner when a SharePoint site is deleted. A list of the possible reasons could be : The site was deleted in error and the earlier you notify the owners – the better. […]
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Upgrading a custom application to SharePoint 2013Just before Christmas I was tasked with the wonderful job of getting DocRead (our Policy Management Software for SharePoint) working on SharePoint 2013. I had actually tackled this a couple of weeks before when I reported this here : ‘DocRead’s first day on 2013’. At this point, although things appeared […]
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SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 2)In part 1 of this post I talked about the principles behind the creation of a Deployment Baseline during the development of SharePoint based applications. In this post I’m going to talk about how we, at Collaboris. normally group and categorise the different artefacts to […]
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