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Hi. My name is Paul Culmsee of Seven Sigma Business Solutions and welcome to my blog. For my bio, go to my about page. On this site, I discuss mainly cloud-based topics, with particular reference to strategy, governance and return on investment issues, but sometimes I end up writing techno-babble articles too 🙂

If you are an IT decision maker, and non propeller-head, or simply interested in topics on the softer side on people and technology, then the articles listed on the right side of this screen are probably for you. For the technical oriented readers, the left side is probably what you are looking for. I do write long posts, I’ll admit, but I try and keep them interesting with some humour.

If you would prefer to view this blog the way your RSS reader sees it (newest posts first), then click here.

SharePoint Performance Management Series

SharePoint 2013 Workflows for Citizen Developers

SharePoint 2007 Branding Series 1

SharePoint 2007 Branding Series 2

InfoPath

Enterprise Integration

Application Development

Troubleshooting

Security

Cisco Series

Offbeat

Compliance, Methodology and Risk

 SharePoint Maturity Series

SharePoint Architect Series

Cloud Computing

Dialogue Mapping

Wicked Problems and Project Management

Planning, Governance and Assurance

Information Architecture and Usability

Strategy and Management

Return on Investment

77 Comments on “Welcome”

  1. Hi Paul, this is just amazing. I’ve been spending the last month or so looking for blogs related to WSS and MOSS. And what do you know, I find yours today, and realise that you’re based in PERTH as well!!! I’m new to the MOSS world, and would definitely be coming here everyday. Please keep up the excellent work 🙂

  2. Hi Paul. Does your site have an rss feed hidden somewhere? I’d love to keep up to date with content you write… Thanks
    Brad

  6. Whoops – Paul, hit submit a little too early. Please delete out my previous post and use this:

    Paul, you wouldn’t believe how your site saved our project in several ways here in Tokyo, Japan.
    Very keen approach in finding solutions. Trial and error scenarios building up to the punchline, true knowledge-sharing, and giving credit where it’s due. Excellent site – Thanks from Japan!! 😀

    PS – so what’s with Perth, anyhow? Is that some big IT Mecca that I don’t know about? 😉

    Regards,
    Alan Wooley
    E-Mail: adwooley2@yahoo.com

  7. nSynergy SharePoint Document management and collaboration software architectures allow organisations to centralise and better manage all electronic information with its seamless integration of Microsoft SharePoint into the Microsoft Office suite of products in intranet, extranet and internet.

    There is more information at nSynergy International or mail to info@nsynergy.com.

  8. Dear Paul,

    Hope you are best of your health, My Manager would like to about sharepoint, i would really appreciate if you send me your contact details and give us date and time so he may call you.

    Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

    Regards,

    Alex Jim
    +1 609 439 4967
    alex.jim@visionetsystems.com

  9. Would be great to obtain your professional feedback regarding a mobile development framework for SharePoint that we just launched.

    Mobile Entrée(TM) is the first ever SharePoint mobile application framework.

    The full featured code is available for download with a 30 day trial. Natively our solution supports iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Palm webOS devices.

    http://www.mobileentree.com/default.aspx

    Along with the developer SDK and Install are video tutorials that will walk through the solution. Additionally, if you are interested, I can arrange a personal demonstration via LiveMeeting.

    Kindest regards,
    Jason
    +1 703 386 5425

  10. Hi Paul. When are you releasing Part 8 of Leave Workflow? I enjoyed reading it and following the instructions. Now we need you to finish the workflow so we can finish ours as well. I’m new to MOSS. I found so many helpful info on your blogs. Keep up the good work.

    Regards,
    Estrella

  11. Hi Estrella

    So sorry this has taken a back seat. I will get back to it soon as I have the whole series mapped out. Just a little pushed for time at the moment

    Stay tuned

    Paul

  13. Hi Paul,

    When will ‘A tribute to the humble “leave form” – Part 8’ be published?
    It has been 7 months since Part 7 was published.

    Regards

    Wayne

  16. Hi Paul,

    How is part 8 of the leave form article coming along? Keep up the great work.

    Cheers,
    Raoul

  17. Hey Paul, first time caller, love the “Leave Form” article series…but you have me hanging on like a cliffhanger tv show…are you still planning on releasing article #8? I’m really interested to see how you handle the workflow part of the process. If you have moved on and aren’t planning on publishing #8, please just let us know…release us 😉 Thx, Kelly M

  18. Hi Kelly

    Part 8 is half done and has been for a long long time. I am seriously thinking of rebooting the entire series for SharePoint 2010. Right now, other priorities make this very hard to devote time to. Sorry I can’t give you an ETA. I am stupidly busy all the way through till April. 🙁

  19. Hi Paul – you’ve got some pretty amazing information on your blog and I’m finding your laid back style of writing about somewhat mind boggling issues truely inspiring! Great stuff. Greetings from bloody cold Europe..

  20. Don’t reboot the ‘Leave Form’ Series to 2010!! I’m running MOSS 2007 and don’t plan on upgrading to 2010 for while yet 😉 Went right through the series today as I am trying to get my people here to start using Sharepoint more and was looking for something simply that they could see the benefit of using…and your Leave Form series has been perfect so far! We still use a manual fill out a piece of paper form and dumping this could be a great ‘first step’ and getting more of them used to Sharepoint. Look forward to the rest of the article when you get a bit of spare time to finish it off.

  23. Hi Paul,
    I am just start learning about this.And looking for blogs related to WSS and MOSS. And I find yours today, and realise that what i want i can get here.I’m new to the MOSS world, and would definitely be coming here everyday. Please keep up the excellent work

  24. Hi Paul – Great series on the leave form. Any word on when/if you’ll be continuing it? PLEASE?!?

  25. Looks like the http://rule.fm is gonna include complete document repository in competition with share point. They also have suite of online applications to centralize business management in one place. Anyone have 411 on it?

  26. It doesn’t really matter what Rule.fm does in competition with SharePoint. Google’s been trying with Google Sites to compete for a while now. I think SharePoint has reached critical mass and is not about to lose ground to competitors easily.

  28. Part 8 got mostly finished but other priorities got in the way. Who knows, if I could have a decent break I’d finish it (or reboot it for SP2010)

  29. I think the articles you provided are really very helpful as it contains all the informative stuff for not only decision makers but also for technical oriented persons.This post, itself is an easy source of getting knowledge.

  30. hi…waiting for your 8th part leave series.Please launch it soon.will be helpful for many.

    Thanks in advance.

    sharath

  31. Great series on the time and Leave….Hopefully Part 8 is near completion, looks like a lot of people are looking forward to it. I want to see how it unfolds in 2007 as most of us are.

  32. Really an amazing work!!! I find lot of information on this site which is very handy and every concept is explained in
    a simple flow that any subject matter expertise, all the concepts can be understood as a layman. Kindly keep up the
    good work as it helps in every facets of IT / Web publishing life cycle.

  33. Not sure if similar kind of sites are available for other WCM products like Fatwire, Interwoven, Day, etc…
    if yes please share url’s of those sites. thanks in advance.

  35. Hello,

    I’m hoping to see the the part 8 of the Info Path workflow. I would like to present and add it to our intranet. If not it’ll be a fail 🙁 I really hope to see it complete.

  36. This is very useful information. I use to be involved with SharePoint implementations. I wish I had these articles related to “SharePoint issues, with particular reference to strategy, governance and return on investment issues” when I was in the game.

  37. I think the articles you provided are really very helpful as it contains all the informative stuff for not only decision makers but also for technical oriented persons.This post, itself is an easy source of getting knowledge.

    I will try with my Blog

  38. Hi Paul – you’ve got some pretty amazing information on your blog and I’m finding your laid back style of writing about somewhat mind boggling issues truely inspiring! Great stuff. Greetings from bloody cold Europe..

  39. Great post Paul! I am an IT professional and accidentally landed on your page. I can see that you have posted lots of useful and informative references to read. Hope to read all of them. Thanks!

    Cody Felton

  40. Hey Paul, I just want to show my appreciation on your blog, that I find so unique. Your clean collection of article links is a smart idea that surely drives readers to read the content. I like your posts on Strategy and Management. I’ve taken some ideas from them, to your credit of course, I hope you don’t mind. 🙂

  41. Hi Paul,

    Great blog! Are you planning on publishing A tribute to the humble “leave form” – Part 8? I’ve found all of it so far really really helpful!

  42. This is very useful information. I personally use to be associated with SharePoint implementations. I wish I’d these articles associated with “SharePoint issues, with particular mention of the strategy, governance and roi issues” when I is at the game.

  43. Hi Paul
    Thanks for the information! Really great! Please can you help out with the rest of the Leave Form process?
    Many thanks again!

  44. Hi Paul
    Brilliant articles and very useful! Would like to see the rest of “A tribute to the humble leave form” – Part 8 to completion?? Where do i find that?

  46. I would really love to see leave form part 8(and subsequent parts, if there are any). Its really great and I understood everything! Excellent Work! 🙂

  49. This site is great! I feel like I have discovered a hidden gem of SharePoint sites! Thanks for putting all the effort into making this!

  50. Is “A tribute to the humble “leave form” – Part 8″ every going to be published?! I want to give it a bash

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