Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Best SharePoint Training in Calgary

NewEra technology learning center offer you the best SharePoint training in Calgary from top Microsoft certified lecturer.

NewEra is proudly one of Canada top Microsoft learning partner, with more then 15 years of experience and over 20 thousand certified student.

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

CriticalPath Training @ New Era Technology


New Era Technology presents:

 
SharePoint® 2013 Administrators Survival Camp with CriticalPath Training
 
 
  Class Date: September 23rd – 27th, 2013

Register Early! SharePoint® 2013 classes are selling out fast!


CriticalPath Training with New Era Technology is your fastest way up the SharePoint® 2013 learning curve.

 

The course can be used to prepare students for the following Microsoft Certification Exams:

·         70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

·         70-332: Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

 
For the full course description please visit here.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Hottest Class of the Summer!

SharePoint® 2013 - Power User




 

On July 23 - 24, 2013, New Era Technology will be hosting a 2 day SharePoint® 2013 Power User class.

This course concentrates on SharePoint® 2013 from the Site Owner’s perspective.

This course is aimed at a non-technical user who will administer a Windows SharePoint® Services Site. It is one of the hottest courses of the summer and you won't want to miss out!

For detailed information please visit the Course Information for the SharePoint® 2013 Power User Class

Monday, December 12, 2011

How SharePoint helped The Times Online put its entire 200-year digital archive on the web

World’s Most Famous Newspaper Uses FAST Search Technology to Present the Entire Archive Online.


Having seen the success of the Times Digital Archive product, used primarily in education and libraries, the Times Online team led by Anne Spackman, Editor-in-Chief for Times Online, embarked on discussions about the feasibility and commercial potential of presenting the entire Times archive online. With enthusiastic backing from senior management, the team needed to find an Enterprise Search solution with the right scalability, proven stability, and technical sophistication to deliver its vision. The team chose to implement the FAST Enterprise Search platform.


Times Online
Times Online Archive: history as it happened, online. Having seen the success of the Times Digital Archive product, used primarily in education and libraries, the Times Online team led by Anne Spackman, Editor-in-Chief for Times Online, embarked on discussions about the feasibility and commercial potential of presenting the entire Times archive online. With enthusiastic backing from senior management, the team needed to find an Enterprise Search solution with the right scalability, proven stability, and technical sophistication to deliver its vision.

The Times Online team had experienced FAST’s ability to deliver both on its ground-breaking Travel Channel and for its award-winning news site. The FAST Enterprise Search platform was therefore the natural choice for the archive project. The media expertise within the FAST consultancy team had also proven valuable, offering industry best-practice suggestions on indexing techniques and search strategies that would be critical to the efficient delivery of the archive project.

Having been soft launched in early 2008, Times Online Archive was launched on 14 June 2008. The majority of the FAST implementation took six months to complete, but the project as a whole, including the construction of a new site, took nearly a year to realize. The archive project has achieved its initial objective of presenting online news from 1785 to 1985—20 million articles, pictures, and advertisements—from the groundbreaking coverage of the Crimean War by William Howard Russell, to letters to the Editor from figures such as Karl Marx and Benito Mussolini—all reproduced exactly as they appeared in the original newspaper edition.

For an introductory period the use of the archive is free, but users must register their personal details, which are valuable to the commercial team analyzing the demographics of the user base.

Behind the story: Digital scanning brings 200 years into view for Search
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology was used to scan in every page of the newspaper from 1785 to 1985. The archive team wanted to present images of the actual pages and not just plain text; however, this method of digitizing content has certain limitations. FAST engaged with the Times Online team to strategize ways to minimize the negative impact on search quality.

The OCR process converts each article into an XML format that can be automatically fed through the FAST file traverser into the FAST document processing pipeline. At this point, words are checked against predefined dictionaries to establish a match and be tagged.

“The flexibility of the FAST product enabled us to complete the indexation process efficiently and respond to issues such as proper nouns spelt three different ways within an article, due to the OCR conversion,” says Drew Broomhall, Search Editor at Times Online.

The OCR process also gives each word an ‘X’ and ‘Y’ coordinate as to where it appears on the page. When a user searches for a term, the system will return all articles that contain that term and will highlight its position within the article.

Relevance models determine the order of search results and when considering this part of the project, the Archive team discovered the need to evolve a different ranking strategy than would apply with contemporary newspapers.

“We found that in many archive articles, the nature of the content was not even mentioned in the headline and so used the FAST ranking module to build a fairly flat ranking profile where the headline and body of the text are roughly equivalent. We plan to evolve this over time using search intelligence to refine relevance,” says Drew Broomhall.

Benefits: A robust, scalable search platform
FAST has not only provided a search platform that would index and search The Times archive of 20 million articles, but also consistently deliver a high-quality query response within a two-second performance target.


To read the rest of the article, please click here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000004317

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Highlights from Microsoft 2011 SharePoint conference in Anaheim, California

This year, 7,500 SharePoint enthusiasts attended the 2011 SharePoint conference in Anaheim, California. They participated in more than 240 sessions presented by Microsoft, SharePoint experts and customers — panels that focus on how SharePoint customers “can use the product as a platform for critical business applications, collaboration, content management, search, enterprise social networking, and more.” Microsoft used this opportunity to “reflect on 10 years of redefining collaboration and look ahead to where the cloud and a growing SharePoint ecosystem will take the product next.”

Below are the highlights of the event:
• In 2008, SharePoint exceeded $1 billion in revenues. It is the fastest Microsoft product to attain this milestone, and it’s growing at double-digit speed.
• More than 125 million SharePoint licenses have been sold to over 65,000 customers.
• Over 62 million SharePoint 2010 licenses have been sold.
• If SharePoint were a stand-alone company, it would be one of the top 50 software firms in the world.
• 80% of the Fortune 500 run SharePoint.
• SharePoint is #1 in satisfaction, likelihood to recommend, awareness, and market share.
• SharePoint has a vibrant ecosystem with more than 700,000 developers and more than 4,000 trained partners.
• Currently, there are 1,000 ISV solutions for SharePoint 2010 and another 1,000 in development.
• This year alone, Microsoft trained more than 93,000 partners on the SharePoint platform.

Microsoft announced a New SharePoint certification program designed to take customers’ SharePoint deployments to the next level, an addition to the suite of Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) certifications: MCA SharePoint. Through a rigorous review board and exam process, the MCA program helps the highest-achieving IT architecture professionals distinguish their expertise with Microsoft server technologies, including SharePoint solutions for enterprise customers.

SharePoint and Office 365, deliver enhanced collaboration and productivity tools in the cloud. Office 365 is not just about creating documents. Whether you’re a mom-and-pop shop or the largest global corporation, it’s what you can do with your information that matters. Office 365 provides tools to create, share and collaborate using the Office productivity suite, email and calendar, shared documents, team workspaces, IM, online meetings and video chat. Businesses using SharePoint Online and Office 365 are already reporting impressive results.

Business Connectivity Services come to SharePoint Online. Microsoft plans to expand the business critical services delivered by Office 365 and Azure and make moving to the cloud even easier for customers. By the end of the year, the first round of service updates to SharePoint Online since Office 365 launched will be complete and will enable customers to use Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to connect to data sources via Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web Services endpoints. BCS lets customers use and search data from other systems as if it lives in SharePoint—in both read and write modes.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Watch how SpaceX utilized SharePoint for critical business applications

SharePoint increased efficiency by integrating critical business applications into the platform so SpaceX could focus on launching vehicles into space.