White Papers: Quest Software

More and more business applications are being created by “citizen developers” - end users who are not IT developers but who create solutions for themselves and their groups. This white paper explores six reasons to embrace citizen development in an intelligent way that minimises risks and maximises the return on your SharePoint investment. Read now.

This white paper details a number of best practices for migrating to SharePoint 2013. These best practices also apply to migrations to most earlier versions of SharePoint. Download now.

This infographic brings together insight, advice and statistics collected in Vanson Bourne’s survey ‘BYOD: Putting Users First Produces Biggest Gains, Fewest Setbacks’ commissioned by Dell. It provides a visual explanation of how organisations are moving from an understanding of the BYOD challenge to a complete working solution, ensuring secured data, maximized employee productivity, business agility and competitive advantage. View now.

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is one of the most visible incarnations of the wave of consumerisation surging through IT. As a result, major cultural, technological and business shifts have occurred in the relationship between company and employee, facilitating unprecedented gains in productivity, efficiency and collaboration while creating new security risks and information governance concerns. Find out how organisations can embrace the future of BYOD.

Cloud-based computing represents a powerful new option for managing enterprise content, offering increased flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost for IT infrastructure, data storage, and applications. However, for a variety of business and technical reasons, most organisations will take a phased approach to adopting cloud-based services, which will require them to continue to maintain their on-premises SharePoint environments during the transition. This white paper, written by Chris Beckett from SharePoint Bits, discusses some of the benefits and risks of hybrid SharePoint deployments, and presents governance considerations that are essential for ensuring a successful migration.