Sharing Data Between Web Front Ends With Thread Safe Web Properties

Remember back in the old days when you only had one frontend? Remember when you thought that was complex?

Times have changed, and now in almost every production environment you have several frontends, and that’s good – they boost performance. With SharePoint it’s simple to add more frontends if you feel you are falling short, but consequently this has also taken other tasks to a new level of complexity.

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The 5 Most Common (But Easily Avoidable) Errors That SharePoint Developers Make

Whether you are an experienced SharePoint developer, or just getting started, you have most likely suffered at least one of these frustrating mishaps and lost an hour or two before figuring out the cause of the problem. Luckily, on first encounter, what seems to be a tricky error is often easily solved.

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What is SharePoint?

Many people will be familiar with SharePoint as a place to store their documents and as their internet site, maybe providing a team or project with a specific workspace to enable collaboration. For many organisations delivering internet sites and document management is SharePoint’s role, however this underrates, and risks underutilising SharePoint.

As the diagram below shows, SharePoint is

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Process Governance – Bridging the Gap between Strategy and Operation

Process management involves monitoring and managing the performance of, and risks and controls related to, operational processes to ensure the delivery of the strategy while operating within risk appetite.

By focusing on process management, organisations can improve their operational efficiency, become more innovative and respond with greater agility to the needs of the market. There is also evidence that process-managed enterprises are highly effective at cutting costs across the value chain.

From an operational point of view, many organisations have adopted process improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma and LEAN.

StratexPoint is the only SharePoint application which enables organisations to close the gap between strategy and operations by integrating process management within a performance and risk management solution. Within the solution, users can:

· Define their key operational processes and visualise these using Microsoft Visio

· Define risks and controls related to processes

· Conduct process related risk and control assessments

· Define indictors for processes

· Align initiatives and actions to drive process improvements

· Define accountability for processes using the RACI model

· Automated process and systems related risk and controls dashboards and reporting, while enabling advanced analytics

· Encourage a collaborative approach to executing processes via commentary, alerts and other web 2.0 collaboration capabilities

· Automated risk and controls dashboards and reporting, while enabling advanced analytics

The Importance of Effective Strategy Management

Strategy management has rarely been more critical to organisations than today. They must constantly search for ways to grow, creating value for shareholders and clients. To be successful, executives must formulate clear plans with a concise set of objectives; define the risks related to those plans and implement a change agenda to deliver its objectives while operating within its risk appetite.

Our solution, StratexPoint enables executives to more effectively manage their strategy by:

· Developing clarity around the direction and goals of the organisation

· Defining risk appetite in relation to your strategic goals

· Allocate resources to the most important initiatives

· Assess strategic performance and identify areas of improvement

· Automating strategy-related workflows and review processes

· Define ownership and governance for performance and risk using the RACI model

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Sun Tzu

9 Things StratexPoint Enables Users to do…

StratexPoint is the only SharePoint application which is specifically designed to support an integrated approach to performance and risk management, and specifically the Risk-Based Performance methodology. Within the solutions users are able to:

1. Define strategic objectives and map these using a strategy map

2. Define key and emerging risks and map these using a risk map

3. Define risk appetite within the context of the defined objectives and risks

4. Manage and monitor the alignment of risk exposure to appetite

5. Define a set of Key Indicators, KPIs, KRIs and KCIs

6. Align the organisational change agenda to deliver the objectives via initiatives and actions

7. Encourage the right culture using the RACI model to define ownership and governance

8. Automated performance dashboards and reporting, while enabling advanced analytics

9. Encourage a collaborative approach to delivering performance via commentary, alerts and other web 2.0 collaboration capabilities