Sogeti’s own David Giard has been awarded with Microsoft’s prestigious MVP award in recognition for his contributions to the Microsoft development community.
Dave is not only a skilled and accomplished developer and architect, he is also a well-traveled public speaker, appearing at developer conferences throughout the region. He is also president of the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group. Dave is also a prolific podcaster and blogger.
Way to go Dave!
Capgemini and Sogeti have been honored today with Microsoft’s coveted Enterprise Partner of the Year award. This outstanding achievement reflects Sogeti’s vast expertise and commitment to excellence on the Microsoft stack. A press release issued today by Sogeti reads,
“Cap Gemini S.A., with its subsidiary Sogeti, is one of the world’s foremost global providers of consulting, professional technology and outsourcing services, and Microsoft is pleased to recognize Capgemini and Sogeti as a Microsoft Enterprise Partner of the Year,” said Mark Hill, Vice President, Enterprise Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “As one of Microsoft’s top worldwide partners on Window 7 as well as a strong partner in ERP and SharePoint solutions, Capgemini and Sogeti help customers transform their businesses through the innovative use of Microsoft technology. In addition, Capgemini and Sogeti offer solutions based on Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite for communications and collaboration thereby helping our customers realize the benefits of Cloud technology.”
Read the full press release here.
Sogeti Michigan’s own SharePoint experts Dave Wollerman and Jesse Murray will be appearing tonight at the June Meeting of the Southeast Michigan SharePoint User Group. The meeting is featuring a Panel of Experts that will take questions from attendees on all things SharePoint.
The meeting will be held at 6pm at the Microsoft Office at 1000 Town Center Dr., Southfield Town Center, Suite 1930 in Southfield. For more details visit the user group’s web site.
This is a great opportunity for users in SharePoint community to have their tough SharePoint questions answered by some of the best in the business.
Last night Dave Giard, a .Net architect from the Michigan Unit, delivered a “Grok Talk” detailing how to get started with the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. The video for that talk is now available:
Dave’s blog offers Grok Talks, interviews with software development experts, and even a TV show called Technology and Friends. You can catch it all here.
We are excited to announce that Jonathan Tanner of Flint won the Zune HD with Microsoft Marketplace giveaway at the Sogeti booth during the Microsoft SharePoint and Visual Studio launch event.
Congratulations Jonathan!
On Thursday, June 3, David Giard will deliver a “Grok Talk” entitled “Writing your first ASP.NET MVC Application”. He will discuss Microsoft’s new Model View Controller architecture, a new framework for developing web applications in .Net. The talk will be held at Sogeti’s Michigan office in Farmington Hills at 6pm.
A Grok Talk is an informal presentation meant to illuminate a technical topic. Sogeti’s Michigan Unit hosts occasional Grok Talks so consultants can educate one another on the numerous technical challenges and solutions they encounter in the field. These talks benefit our consultants in two ways: they expose a new technology we are likely to encounter, and they offer opportunities for us to refine our presentation skills.
The talk will be made available remotely. For details contact Dave Giard.
SharePoint 2010 offers many improvements in workflow that promise to deliver more functionality and ease of use to users. Along with SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio, Microsoft has added Visio 2010 to the workflow developer’s arsenal of tools.
Visio 2010 allows non-technical business users the ability to author workflow processes using a familiar, easy-to-use tool. A new template appears in Visio called Microsoft SharePoint Workflow. It includes objects which map to activities included in SharePoint Designer workflows. The Visio diagram can then be exported into SharePoint Designer 2010 for further development.
A SharePoint 2010 workflow modeled in Visio 2010
- Post written by Sogeti consultant, Derek Gusoff
SharePoint 2007 had some powerful Enterprise Content Management features, but it had some weaknesses that often had users wishing for more. For example, Content Types could not span site collections. In an environment with multiple site collections or web applications, these Content Types would have to be recreated many times. Worse, updates to the Content Types meant replicating those updates across the farm, leading to overly complex and error-prone situations.
SharePoint 2010 eliminates many of those concerns with its new Managed Metadata Service. Part of the new Shared Services architecture in SharePoint 2010, the Managed Metadata Service is managed by a farm administrator and provides metadata services that can be consumed across the farm. Farms can also have multiple Managed Metadata Service applications and expose different sets of metadata to different groups within the farm.
Key concepts within this architecture include the Term Store and the Managed Keywords. The Term Store is a collection of terms that can be linked to items in SharePoint. It is defined by an administrator and represents a managed taxonomy. The Managed Keywords collection consists of the tags created by users to label SharePoint content, creating a “folksonomy”. Both the Term Store and Managed Keywords can be leveraged to create more meaningful search results for users.
Another way SharePoint 2010 simplifies enterprise-wide content management is through Content Types. A Content Type Syndication Hub is a site collection that has been configured to host Content Types for the entire farm. Other site collections can then receive Content Types from the Hub. Now any changes made to the Content Types in the Hub will be extended to all site collections.
Come see Mark Grimes and Dan Parker from Sogeti speak at the South East Michigan SharePoint User Group tonight.
Mark Grimes from the Detroit unit and Dan Parker from the Houston unit will present a session at the South East Michigan SharePoint User’s Group on May 11th. The presentation will focus on what’s new with InfoPath 2010 and how it integrates with SharePoint 2010. For more information please visit: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=148264
David Giard will be presenting “Extending Your Application with the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)” at the following locations in January:
In addition, he will deliver two presentations Fri Jan 22 at the State of MI Developer Briefing in Lansing, MI.
