Shared Insights: The Podcast From Ba Insight

Collaboration is the word for 2017, and the dominant tool for bringing modern collaboration and communication to your enterprise teams has yet to emerge. Between media darling Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Workplace by Facebook, the coming year is poised to bring a significant settling to this market, and you might find your users clamoring for a new environment as a result. Peter O'Kelly of O'Kelly Associates joins BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried and Pete Wright for a state of the union of collaboration tools. Peter has been working in this space since the early 1980s. He worked on the Notes product management team for several years, and later ran product management for Groove Networks. He's been an industry analyst (including VP and research director at Burton Group) and also worked on enterprise collaboration solutions at Microsoft. Today, as an independent consultant, Peter helps software vendors with product and competitive strategies in communication, collaboration and database tools. Links & Notes Share y

This week on the show, BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried joins us to share his predictions for 2017 across the search landscape. From Microsoft Graph to Facebook to Teams and Slack, not to mention his milestones on the road of the inexorable march to the cloud, Jeff shares his recommendations that might just influence where you place your attention in the coming year. Before we get started, we've got a recap of just how far we've come in the last 18 months. Links & Notes Jeff's Top 10 Predictions for 2017 at BAInsight.com

We’re talking about Intelligent Intranets on the show this week, this on the heels of Jeff Fried’s talk at Intranätverk in Stockholm. But today, we approach intelligence not from the perspective of IT and system administrators, but for Intranet managers, those who are looking for an Intranet that’s connected, organized, flexible, personalized, and proactive, but don’t always have the deep technical resources to deliver. This week on Shared Insights, Jeff shares his experience as a speaker at the conference and his key observations from this global community of those on the front lines of managing their Intranets. Links & Notes Search Driven Intranets in SharePoint with Jason McCullagh Intranätverk Share your experience Explore SharePoint Connectors

BA Insight co-founder and director of product development Tony Malandain joins us today to share the product development perspective on Microsoft's innovations in Cloud Hybrid Search. Any migration brings complexity, but a move from on-premises to the cloud brings with it whole classes of "gotchas" in security, extensibility, and even once-familiar administration. From the perspective of our listeners struggling around any sort of migration and the complexity that comes with it, Tony will share his perspective on why Cloud Hybrid Search matters to us today, and give you a roadmap to some of the obstacles that can trip you up in the process. Links & Notes Overview of BCS About Tony Malandain Tony Malandain on LinkedIn Read up on Cloud SSA on the BA Insight Blog Learn More about BA Insight's SharePoint Connectors Shared Insights 13: Going Deep on Search Security with BA Insight's John Lenker

As promised last week, we’re continuing our recap of Microsoft Ignite 2016 with two more terrific guests. Neil Hodgkinson is senior program manager at Microsoft in the Sharepoint Product Group and Mikael Svenson is principal consultant at Puzzlepart and Partner Technology Solution Professional for Microsoft. Both our guests managed an exhaustive presenter schedule at the conference. As such, we open our conversation by assessing the key messages critical to adoption and implementation coming from the engineering teams, and how well they feel those messages were received. Hybrid, the cloud, Azure, Intelligence, and even Delve are all on the table as our guest experts share their wisdom and excitement for both what was announced at Ignite, and what brilliant partners will be building on top of these platforms next. Links & Notes Microsoft Ignite Microsoft Technical Communities Neil Hogdkinson on LinkedIn Neil’s Ignite Presentations Mikael Svenson on LinkedIn Mikael’s Ignite Presentations Mikeal Svenson — T

BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried is back and well recovered from his Atlanta adventures at Microsoft Ignite 2016. This week on Shared Insights, Jeff brings us his report from the conference and a review of the things that will matter most for those who use and administer Microsoft business tools. The big themes of the event were built on four pillars: Security, Intelligence (especially machine learning), Collaboration, and Cloud. New features in SharePoint aim to leverage new tools on each pillar, from modern Teamsites, the SharePoint Framework, and new Microsoft Graph capabilities to boot. Microsoft highlighted a deep new strategic partnership with Adobe and their Creative and Marketing Cloud products which looks to be a promising long-term relationship a rich source of new business intelligence. Links & Notes Microsoft Ignite Microsoft Technical Communities

Today, we’re talking about security — Search Security — and the unique complexity that comes with administering a system that is both secure and fluid for your users. Security and auth is a complicated subject to begin with. But the requirements of search — to be both completely secure and efficient for users across heterogeneous systems — makes search security even more complex. To help us dive into this subject is our very own John Lenker, pilot, solutions architect for BA Insight. John demonstrates what it takes to build a responsive and secure search, from Active Directory integration to policy maintenance, across massive and diverse collections! Links & Notes BA Insights Connectors Blogs at Microsoft Technet Forums at Microsoft Technet

Richard Harbridge serves as Chief Technology Officer and an owner of 2toLead. In his work, his writing and speaking, he’s become an invaluable resource to our community. He’s a trusted advisor to hundreds of organizations, helping them understand their current and future technology needs. To the rest of us, he’s an outspoken contributor to the field; an internationally recognized expert in Microsoft technology as well as marketing and professional services. It is thanks to his widely regarded expertise in this last area that he joins us on Shared Insights today as we take on technology trends impacting the professional services and legal industry: what’s working, and what is yet to come on our technology road ahead? Notes & Links Learn more about 2toLead 2toLead Whitepaper: When to Use What in Office 365 2toLead Whitepaper: External Sharing with Office 365 Connect with Richard Harbridge on LinkedIn International Legal Technology Association — ITLACon 2016

If your users have been in enterprise long enough, they likely have a conflicted relationship with the word Intranet. Is it the gold standard of deep access and collaboration? Or is it an even deeper well of lost assets? We’ve seen it all. Today, BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried brings us hope that in fact Intranets are changing, and builds a case that your next internet will be better, smarter, and faster. Links & Notes Share Your Story with Jeff via BAInsight.com Find @jefffried on Twitter

Today, we’re taking on the deceivingly complex subject of Measuring Collaboration Success. We have an intuitive sense of what these words mean — we certainly know how to measure, and we understand contextually what collaboration looks like… but how do you know you’re growing? Succeeding? And changing as a result of your efforts to work collaboratively? Christian Buckley is Chief Marketing Officer at Beezy, maker of the so-named comprehensive collaboration solution for Office 365 and SharePoint. He’s here today to share with us their “Measuring Collaboration Success” initiative by taking on just these issues. Links & Notes TAKE THE SURVEY — How do you monitor and measure collaboration success? “What are the success factors behind collaboration?” — Download the White Paper Follow #MeasureCollabSuccess on Twitter Find Christian Buckley at BuckleyPlanet.com Follow Christian on LinkedIn

BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried recently sat down with text analytics expert Tom Reamy on the eve of the release of Tom’s latest book, Deep Text: Using Text Analytics to Conquer Information Overload, Get Real Value from Social Media, and Add Big(ger) Text to Big Data Their conversation begins with the book, but ranges far and wide from there. Intelligent agents, cognitive computing, semantic technology, deep learning, and of course Search, these two practitioners offer insights into the trajectory of the field, all in the context of Deep Text. About Tom Reamy Tom Reamy is currently the Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group, a group of knowledge architecture, taxonomy, and text analytics consultants. Tom has 20 years of experience in information architecture, intranet management and consulting, and text analytics. His academic background includes a Master’s in the History of Ideas, research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and a strong background in philosophy, particularly epistemolog

Today on Shared Insights, we invite Vlad Catrinescu of VNext Solutions to the show to talk to us in more detail about Hybrid Sharepoint. Hybrid SharePoint offers great opportunity for your users, but brings with it increased complexity that can be frustrating during deployment. Vlad and BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried highlight the key features and benefits of Hybrid SharePoint deployment, along with red flags that can get in your way if you’re not careful. About Vlad Catrinescu Vlad Catrinescu is president of VNext Solutions. He’s a Microsoft MVP in SharePoint and specializes in deploying the perfect SharePoint Infrastructure, especially in high availability and disaster recovery scenarios and is founder of sharepoint-community.net — one of the most active SharePoint communities you’ll find. This month, Vlad launched Implementing a Hybrid SharePoint 2013/2016 Infrastructure on PluralSight and has offered listeners of Shared Insights 20% off for three months. Links & Notes PluralSight: Implementing a Hybrid Sh

Today on Shared Insights we're talking about the latest innovations in SharePoint 2016 search. Search Explained CEO Agnes Molnar joins BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried and Pete Wright to help us better understand the changes and opportunities for users, administrators, and search managers alike. Jeff and Agnes outline what's new in SharePoint 2016 with examples for organizations looking to leverage Cloud Hybrid search, increased capacity, and more, and present the case for SharePoint search and the limitations of it in the enterprise. About Agnes Molnar Agnes Molnar is CEO of Search Explained, dedicated to helping businesses solve problems via Search-driven intranets, dashboards, and other business-critical applications. She's an author on this very subject, her first book, SharePoint 2016 Search Explained is available now. You can find Agnes at searchexplained.com.

Elastic search is an open source search stack that has the potential to unleash your data inside SharePoint with BA Insight. With more than 50 million cumulative downloads, it's the fastest growing open source search technology with an impressive track record. Today, BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried introduces Elasticsearch, and outlines how the BA Insight tools can make use of powerful advanced search and analytics of Elastic to do more with the data you already have in a way that is completely natural to your existing users. Links & Notes BAInsight.com: BAInsight and Elasticsearch: Better Together

BA Insight Chief Technology Officer Jeff Fried joins us today to introduce a new capability inside SharePoint that will dramatically impact your efforts to manage your cloud data sources. Cloud Hybrid Search promises to make it drop-dead simple to find content, wherever it may live. BA Insight has been a close partner with Microsoft throughout the development of Cloud Hybrid Search, and we're the first to have a live installation outside of Microsoft. Now we're thrilled to introduce it to our customers as the rollout program expands! Links and Notes Collab365 Succeeding with Hybrid SharePoint and Search Connectivity for Hybrid SharePoint BA Insight's Connectivity Software

Search Engine Optimization is typically a function of your web or marketing teams, ensuring that your message is reaching the right external audience for your company at the right time. But what about your you internal content? Empowering your organization with the right tools and a smart internal SEO strategy can pay huge dividends in both efficiency and user satisfaction. Today, BA Insight's Chief Customer Officer Sean Coleman joins us to talk about SEO inside the firewall. He and shares strategies for getting users on board and how you can achieve powerful results with SEO for intranets using BA Insight and SharePoint.

What makes an expert? Today, answering that question requires understanding the complex tapestry of our experience, contributions, and behavior across the digital landscape. The impression we leave across social media and our professional networks becomes just as important an indicator of our potential as our resume and education.  This week on Shared Insights, BA Insight Chief Technology Officer, Jeff Fried, joins us to define today's digital expert, and in the process introduces us to a new member of the BA Insight solution, Expertise Locator. If you've ever found yourself lost in search of experience in your organization, this episode is for you. 

Michael Tominna is Director for Technology and Practice for DLA Piper, one of the world's largest law firms, with 4,000 attorneys supporting staff in equal number. Michael and his team have finished an upgrade to their robust search application, originally deployed in 2012. He joins us for a conversation around the opportunities and enhancements that come to users this year. Their implementation, which Michael discussed at the International Legal Technology Association conference, aimed to make searching for information more efficient while breaking down information silos using BA Insight software. Their objective: help their users find content faster, more accurately, and more efficiently Provide attorneys the tools to find all available knowledge within the firm and to be able to easily reuse that knowledge Reduce the gap time between non-billable events across the firm Reduce information silos And create a unified view of information — improving visibility of all the firm's assets

BA Insight's products extend the power of Microsoft SharePoint to significantly improve the way organizations find and work with content to meet the high expectations of their users. Today on Shared Insights, search expert Mike Gregory joins us to talk about how these technologies work together to take the SharePoint out-of-the-box experience and make it something truly transformational for users.