The buyers’ guide to intranet products for SharePoint and Office 365. ClearBox’s independent assessments of intranet solutions for SharePoint and Office 365 will show you how SharePoint (on-premises and online) can be transformed into a fully-featured intranet and collaboration environment. Covering 52 intranet products (30 in-depth reviews and cataloguing...

For the past five years ClearBox Consulting has published an annual review of the SharePoint intranet in-a-box products that are on the market. It truly is an evergreen resource, and even more so since we decided to update it quarterly. The new issue of our report has just been published and is available to buy now. It’s nearly 600 pages of critical...

Every time a decision is made, a product or service is designed, or a way of working is introduced to a team, there’s two things at play. The first is the visible and explicit decision, product, service or way of working. The second are the boundary conditions on what’s possible—the constraints, assumptions and general context that define what’s possible,...

Trustwave, a cybersecurity and managed security services provider, published a short case study in June on blocking email threats in the hotel sector. The overview said the case study was from a New Zealand-based firm (always of high interest), but it was one of the comments inside the case study that really captured my attention: One common attack...

Security awareness training is an essential element in preparing a workforce to identify social engineering attempts, discern whether an email is real or a phish, and to be alert to security threats hiding in plain sight, among others. Offering security awareness training is a standard recommendation for all employees, although clearly security awareness...

At DEX 2019 last week, I presented the day 2 opening keynote – on Re-Thinking ROI for Office 365, with an emphasis on the flawed logic that focuses on saving time and reducing travel. I argued that the traditional ways don’t work and miss the real value of Office 365, and offered several ways for re-thinking the real value. Here’s my slides. This...