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Groove book dedication to Joe Levine
Hello all,
It was a great pleasure to meet Joe Levine in Paris and take some nice pictures together with Martha Bednarz.
Have a look at these nice pictures taken in Paris at La Grande Arche de la Défense.
Joe is indeed alongside me for years working on Groove’s fundamental concepts. He wrote Groove 2.0 at the time of the first concepts of the Web 2.0 were emerging.
When you read this article about Google Docs security glitches you measure the added value of Microsoft Office Groove 2007 extended concepts where data is closely controlled by the data owners and never centralized… You also value solutions like GrooveIT! solutions …
It was hence a great moment when I wrote him a dedication of "Microsoft Office Groove 2007 : La confiance collaborative en réseaux". It is during these moments that you note that being French and writing in France a book in French is not necerally a handicap !
Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
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How was Microsoft Techdays 2009 event in Paris prepared?
Hello,
You will surely appreciate to learn how the Microsoft event in Paris was organized by Hommes & Process and its staff.
This can provide you a set of ideas to get significant value with Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and solutions developped around.
Enjoy
Jean-Michel
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You need solutions for secured collaborations helping your business gain competitiveness?
You need solutions for secured collaborations helping your business gain competitiveness?
Customer’s testimonials
Solutions that optimize teamwork leading to growth
« First of all, we have chosen the high added value services from Hommes & Process to manage our deployment and security policies, enabling us to focus on our business strategy: we save an average of 2 working days per month.
Nordaq Water Filter Systems France, Jean-Mathieu de Rigaud, Managing Director.
Time reporting solution for a consultant team
« The time reporting solution integrated to Office Groove has enabled us to better manage the time our consultants spend working for our customers. This has lead to an improvement in our profitability by up to 50% for some projects. Moreover, we have noticed that better time management and control improves team efficiency resulting in an increase in our turnover by 5%”
Eficiens, Francis Mahut, Managing Director.
Improve coordination between senior consultants
« Our Groove solution helped us improve team efficiency, saving up to 50% of coordination time and cut travel expenses. By improving the quality of work, the Groove collaborative solution enabled us to increase our turnover by at least 20%”
Scoop Resonance, Pierre Boulanger, Project coordinator.
Improving processes leads to higher productivity
« By deploying Groove and its project management module to secure and streamline our decision-making processes, we have achieved productivity gains of around 25% compared with the results obtained from our previous processes…».
Voies Navigables de France, Xavier Boulanger, IT Manager.
Health services management: decentralized collaboration solution makes projects flow
“We are highly satisfied with the performance of our collaborative solution helping us to improve team productivity in our every day work.[….]Having our workspaces backed up and archived gives us peace of mind knowing that we are legally compliant and in a position to implement a continuity plan when unpredictable events occur”.
Medi-Partenaires, Isabelle Perego, Department of legal affairs and the doctor relation.
Energy leading company manages decentralized collaboration in a secured way
“The solution deployed by Hommes & Process has become a must-have for me. I often travel between Paris and London; the Groove solution is the only one that has allowed me to save time (one hour a day) when working on several computers (desktops and laptops) in various locations. A real must have!”
Extracted from a new case study.
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Groove case study – Business School Enhances Student Learning with Collaboration Software
Hello dear reader,
A new year started some days ago. Let me wish you a competitive and efficient year.
2009 will be a great year for Groove collaboration technologies. Be sure of that !
This period of quick changes implies that collaboration must be efficient, reliable, adaptable, based on people’s expertise, with "always on" strong security …
Of course, the strengh of Groove is being able to use efficiently other technologies like Silverlight (look at NabazGame as a sample), SharePoint Services, MOSS, Active Directory, other Office products, .NET framework abilities, Mesh, Azur, Seven, new Cloud Computing possibilites, Hyper-V …
New case studies will be posted here ; an updated version of the "Groove Book" will be released in 2009.
To start 2009 have a look here to a new case study
Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
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Microsoft Office Groove or Trusted Business Networked Collaboration
Hello everybody,
I could understand that some of you were reading French and impatient to read the French version of "Microsoft Office Groove or Trusted Business Networked Collaboration".
For those wondering how to get it, please go here Microsoft Office Groove – Confiance Collaborative en Réseaux
Enjoy and don’t hesitate to share your thoughts back to me in the way it suits you,
Jean-Michel Davault
PS : The American version is planned with Wiley and the UK one with Iste (www.wiley.com , www.iste.co.uk)
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Do you use SharePoint and work with Groove? Tell us about it and get free software!
Do you use SharePoint and work with Groove? Tell us about it and get free software!
Microsoft’s User Research Group is conducting series of studies for SharePoint products and technologies at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, and is looking for participants in the Puget Sound area
The research team is looking for individuals who use SharePoint at least twice a week and have experience working with Groove.
Each participant will receive a gift item they select from a list of some of Microsoft’s most popular hardware and software titles.
If you are interested please email itusable@microsoft.com with your name phone number and insert Groove into the subject line.
You can put me in copy if you find it suitable.
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TechEd EMEA Barcelona – Singapore – Kuala Lumpur
Hello,
I will be present at TechEd EMEA Barcelona next week (November 3 to 7) on the Office Enteprise Booth (the big number 1 booth 😉 )
As promised, you will find enclosed the invitations for the two events I was refering to :
If can’t attend to these days and you are a customer highly committed to Groove related technologies some meeting slots remains for these days : November 13 & 14 in Kuala Lumpur and November 17 in Singapore.
Best Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
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Groove Book is now completed
Hello everybody,
A bit more than 3 months since my last post…
I had to make some choices and significantly reduce my web publications in order to finalize my book and, at the same time, continue to meet you around the globe, like WPC in Houston last July with more than 200 of you ! It was a great moment ;-).
What I promised to provide to you is now finalized : a book about how to use Groove efficiently in business. The French title is "Microsoft Office Groove : Comment travailler en équipe autrement". The English title is not yet firmly decided but it might be something like "Microsoft Office Groove : How to Secure Social Computing for Business".
Once available I will publish on this blog some other web links. You can already contact me or Frédéric Sitbon who worked very closely with me and co-authored. Frédéric is also the author of this French project management publication http://www.hermes-science.com/fr/cdrom2007/pages/notices/2746209510.html
For those working in Asia, I will handle a set of sessions in Singapore (Tuesday November 11) and Kualu Lumpur (Saturday November 15). The English version of the book is expected to be delivered by then.
Best Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
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The Groove MVP Fans Club
In July 2007, I started at WPC 2008 to bring people together and create the "Groove Fans Club".
In order to prepare the MVP Summit 2008, I created the "MVP Groove Fans Club" in a Groove dedicated space.
We still need a Tee-Shirt but Elisabeth promised us one ! Otherwise, we will make a copy of Ashok’s 😉
The idea behind is to bring various skills together, express positively differences of cultures and ways of building together strong influence in order to provide customer consolidated feedback to Microsoft senior management and accelerate business.
We are those to believe that Groove is a faboulous secure social infrastructure and development platform complementary to SharePoint. SharePoint is indeed extremely strong in a long term centralized world whereas Groove is extremely agile into a distributed cross-firewall environnement allowing new races of relationships and applications. As the Groove Networks Inc acquisition was among Microsoft’s top 5 biggest [Steve Balmer at the MVP Summit 2008], it is time to let know to the world the high added value of Groove in a SharePoint world !
Bringing together people also allows me to bring together my book around "Groove" with a wide angle !
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Elisabeth is the first (women) Groove MVP ; she is the women in leadership by excellence especially in Canada ! Working ! |
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Fabrice is the Groove French MVP by excellence. His knowledge is very wide. You have development questions around Groove? Ask also his famous Groove/SharePoint whitepaper. GrooveIT him ! |
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The Groove MVP in India ! He is one of the earliest Grooved and Groove Developer ! He is one of the rare CEO being certified 😉 |
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Groove MVP ! If you need to position something on a digital map he is your guy ! Tou(t IT) Can ! Ask the Toucan ! |
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Groove MVP. He is your man in the Netherlands! Also a GrooveIT! Supporter! |
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Evan is from Great Britain 😉 No-one is perfect on an island 😉 He is Groove MVP and expert is Groove forms development ! |
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He is also on a Island but a continental one, very fare one. He is Groove MVP and the Strategic Data Management expert. |
SBC is also among the very early adopter of Groove working closely on SharePoint. |
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Technology and Usages : Groove and MESH