Improving Digital Adoption

If you oversee document management, compliance policies, and collaboration channels, you know the level of productivity that can be achieved using workflows.

In addition to the out-of-the-box workflows, SharePoint and Office 365 enable the creation of custom business workflows and a variety of no-code automation solutions.

Many companies build these computing processes to help employees easily and duly perform repetitive tasks. But, many of these solutions are often either ignored or abandoned.

There is a better approach to these initiatives.

Topics: VisualSP Help System, Office 365 User Adoption, SharePoint User Adoption, SharePoint End User Training

During the keynote at #SPC18 last week, the MS team re-assured the attendees that SharePoint is seen as a 'foundational service' for Office 365, along with OneDrive and Exchange. Microsoft has seen a 200% growth in SharePoint storage used in O365. Out of all active SharePoint seats – 70% of them are for SharePoint Online (as opposed to on-prem). Their strategy has 4 pillars that are defining the dev work they are doing day in and day out. Here's a summary of those pillars and what features we're seeing happen for each of them.

Topics: SharePoint Conference North America, SharePoint ROI, Office 365 ROI, VisualSP Help System

In this instance, "training" means "transferring knowledge to an end-user"; and, “helping" means "guiding an end-user through steps while completing a task".

Helping works better than training because mastery is attained at work, not in classrooms. In other words, learning on the job is the superior way.

Topics: VisualSP Help System, SharePoint End User Training, Office 365 End User Training, SharePoint User Adoption, Office 365 User Adoption, Training, SharePoint Help

Team collaboration, task automation, data security, employee productivity, and return on investment are the common business pursuits. Toward those goals, companies have deployed SharePoint and Office 365.

However, all these business goals are only attainable to the extent that employees actually use the platforms. At the same time, SharePoint and Office 365 adoption remains a major challenge to organizations of all sizes. The idea of "build it; they will come" seldom translates into reality.

Topics: Learning Management System, VisualSP Help System, SharePoint Adoption, office 365 adoption, SharePoint End User Training, Office 365 End User Training

To make tasks simpler and easier for VisualSP subscription administrators, 3 new updates have been added to VisualSP Online:

Topics: VisualSP Online Updates, VisualSP Help System

When your end users are humming along and efficiently completing tasks because of the great custom help items you have been creating, you will likely be motivated to provide even more step-by-step guidance.

Topics: VisualSP Online Updates, VisualSP Online Help System, VisualSP Help System

We've added two new features to VisualSP Online and nearly two dozen new Help Items.

Topics: VisualSP Online Updates, VisualSP Help System, VisualSP Online Help System, Help Desk Tools

VisualSP is looking forward to another exciting and informative SharePoint Fest event in Denver, Colorado. It's sure to be helpful to SharePoint administrators, software developers, information architects, and knowledge workers of all skill levels.

Topics: SharePoint Fest Denver, SharePoint End User Training, VisualSP Help System

Microsoft SharePoint has become a popular resource for education organizations, with good reason. The tools available in SharePoint enable users to create, collaborate, approve, and more – all within a secure environment.

The use of SharePoint in academic settings cover a wide spectrum – from a single site where staff, faculty, and administrators collaborate on documents internally to an entire campus dashboard, where faculty and students interact digitally.

Topics: Higher Education, SharePoint End User Training, Office 365 End User Training, VisualSP Help System

VisualSP is proud to sponsor SharePoint Fest in the Mile-High City this year. It's coming May 30-June 2 at the Colorado Convention Center, and we're excited to be exhibiting our Just-in-Time Learning® solutions to the SharePoint and Office 365 community!

Topics: SharePoint Fest Denver, SharePoint End User Training, VisualSP Help System