Technology

In this section the resources listed in Chapters 6-8 are listed out in the sequence they appear in the book. Some resources which appear in duplicate in more than one chapter in the book have been excluded

Chapter 6 Managing Technology

Global Intranet Trends report

This report is published annually.

ZDNet Blogs

The technology blogs on ZD Net are a good way to track developments in a wide range of enterprise technologies:

ACM Portal

The portal of the Association for Computing Machinery contains a wealth of papers on all aspects of intranet-related technologies, but this is only accessible by members of the ACM

Successful Enterprise Search Management

Stephen Arnold and I have written this book on enterprise search management:

A Comparison of the Four Top Enterprise Architectures

Roger Sessions gives a summary of four  different approaches to enterprise architecture:

Hewlett Packard Laboratories

The technical reports from the research laboratories of Hewlett Packard are a useful source of information on emerging technologies, especially on cloud computing and also enterprise search:

Beyond Search

Stephen Arnold monitors developments in search technology and search applications

The Real Story Group

The Real Story Group publishes vendor-neutral comparative reviews of WCM, search and ECM  products, including Microsoft SharePoint

John Zachman on Information Systems Architecture

A very readable summary of John Zachmann’s work  can be found in this Wikipedia entry which provides
numerous references.

Chapter 7 Specifying and Selecting Software

The Content Management Handbook

I have written about the specification and selection of content management applications

Content Management Toolkit

James Robertson has developed a Content Management T oolkit, which is a comprehensive list of CMS features and a methodology for the procurement process:

Chapter 8 Using Microsoft SharePoint for Intranets

The SharePoint 2010 Intranet

The Intranet Benchmarking Forum has published The SharePoint 2010 Intranet, which sets out the main features of SharePoint 2010 from the viewpoint of an intranet manager

AIIM SharePoint Resources

Use of SharePoint in Higher Education

The Eduserv report on the use of SharePoint 2007 in (UK) higher education provides a very good synthesis of good implementation practice

SharePoint Roadmap Governance Themes Workbook

Good advice on SharePoint implementation from Michael Sampson

Professional Microsoft Search: FAST Search, SharePoint Search, and Search Server

The definitive book on  Microsoft search applications, including FAST ESP

Comparison of Microsoft SharePoint search solutions

A useful comparison table from Microsoft

Essential SharePoint

A good largely non-technical book that focuses on SharePoint governance

Added February 2010

SharePoint – some books, reports and web sites