The Livingstone Group

Intelledox releases infiniti™

Hans van Dalen — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:50:08 +0000

INTELLEDOX JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT SMARTER, NOW THE POSSIBILITIES ARE INFINITE

2 October 2012 – Canberra, Australia – Intelledox today announced the latest release of their leading document generation and smart e-forms solution, now called infiniti.

“We’ve thought long and hard about this product release and its new naming convention,” said Phillip Williamson CEO, Intelledox. “After much deliberation, we implemented a name change that represents the unlimited potential for our customers to achieve business process improvement outcomes.”

Taking the Intelledox-developed solution set to the next level, infiniti offers over 80 new features with significant advances in efficiency and usability. A refreshed user interface makes the automation of business-centric processes both logical and faster for business managers and information workers. Business users and citizens experience a streamlined, nurturing and rich online experience that increases productivity and accuracy; drives compliance and continual improvement; enables device independence and mobility; and improves total stakeholder satisfaction.

infiniti is powered by a sophisticated rules engine that drives true automation into business processes. Some of the exciting new features include:

Linear document creation workflow – known as ‘infiniti Automate’
Dynamic, smart web forms (e-forms) – now even more accessible through mobile device rendering (iPads, iPhones, Windows devices)
Enhanced document and data routing functionalities
Out-of-the-box connectors to applications such as HP TRIM, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, BizTalk, Changepoint, TIBCO, Siebel and SAP
Even more foreign language support, including Arabic and Mandarin
Fully cloud-based offering on-demand

“We have developed true next-generation software with infiniti. Deploying this out-of-the-box software requires minimal technical knowledge to operate and support, and most certainly no programming” continued Mr. Williamson. “There are over a trillion documents generated annually around the world, and in the near future most will be generated by intelligent software – as documents or more often as electronic output. infiniti will accelerate the transfer of legacy hard copy and paper-heavy processes into the digital and mobile age.”

The release of infiniti also marks the sustained success of Intelledox in global markets as the company continues to grow at over 50% per annum.

About Intelledox

Intelledox Pty Ltd (www.intelledox.com) is a leading provider of document and smart web form-driven business process automation software to a portfolio of large corporate and government customers across the globe. The powerful software suite enables manual document-centric business processes to be transformed through intelligent automation that

both nurtures and controls the user or citizen. This leads to significant return-on-investment scenarios that improve productivity, accuracy and user satisfaction for Intelledox customers.

Headquartered in Canberra, Australia, Intelledox has offices in North America, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, as well as a global distribution network.

Trainews en The Livingstone Group lanceren gemeentebrief.nl, een service die het maken en ontwerpen van de dagelijkse communicatie van de Nederlandse gemeenten sterk vereenvoudigd.

Hans van Dalen — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:31:34 +0000

Goes, 16 oktober 2012

Alle Nederlandse gemeenten communiceren over dezelfde onderwerpen met privé personen, ondernemers en andere relaties. Tot nu toe doen zij dat veelal elk op hun eigen wijze, dit kost veel tijd en geld. Bovendien blijkt dat de inhoud van de overheidscorrespondentie voor veel ontvangers onbegrijpelijk of onvolledig is, met alle tijdrovende gevolgen van dien.

Met de komst van gemeentebrief.nl is er een eind gekomen aan deze tijdrovende en kostbare bezigheid. Via de website www.gemeentebrief.nl kan elke gemeente met behulp van een slimme wizard snel een brief samenstellen. Daarmee is uw document binnen een mum van tijd verzend gereed.

Gemeentebrief.nl is gebaseerd op de documentgeneratie software ‘Intelledox’. Dit is de vierde generatie van het documenten- en slimme formulierensysteem dat processen verbetert en versneld en de communicatie tussen de organisatie en haar relaties efficiënter maakt. Dit door ervoor te zorgen dat de juiste inhoud gebruikt en hergebruikt wordt, hierdoor treedt een duidelijke verbetering op in de manier hoe de organisatie draait.

Naast deze gemakkelijke technische aspecten is het ook mogelijk om uw brieven door gemeentebrief.nl kritisch onder de loep te laten nemen en samen met u te kijken naar de verbeterpunten van de brieven. Het resultaat? Duidelijke en eenvoudige brieven, begrepen door iedereen, met een betere response.

Trainews is tevens de initiatiefnemer van www.verspreiden.com, hierdoor kan er schaalvoordeel gehaald worden op het verzenden van brieven. Hierdoor is gemeentebrief.nl in staat het gehele proces van ontwerp tot en met verzenden van brieven te verbeteren.

“De grote kracht achter gemeentebrief is de IT ervaring van ons gecombineerd met het jonge out-of-the-box denken van Trainews” aldus Willem Koelewijn, CEO van The Livingstone Group, “we kunnen snel schakelen en een standaard oplossing bieden die als maatwerk aanvoelt”.

“We gooien gemeenten niet in het diepe, maar begeleiden naar een betere communicatie” zegt Daniël van Iwaarden van Trainews, “omdat we de hele keten van het ontstaan van de brief tot en met het verzenden kunnen verbeteren ontzorgen we gemeenten op hun weg naar eenvoudige en eenduidige communicatie”.

Op dit moment is er voor gemeenten een gratis proef periode aan te vragen via www.gemeentebrief.nl.

Download hier het volledige persbericht.

The Livingstone Group B.V. sluit partner contract met WAND Inc. (Dutch)

Hans van Dalen — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:58:48 +0000

The Livingstone Group B.V. sluit een partner overeenkomst met WAND Inc. om hun klanten snel vooruit te helpen met het organiseren en zoeken van elektronische content op een effectievere manier.

Goes, 13 augustus 2012- SharePoint specialist The Livingstone Group B.V. maakt vandaag bekend dat het een reseller en implementatiepartner contract heeft afgesloten met WAND Inc. voor hun brede set aan taxonomieën en de DataFacet automatische labeling oplossing.

WAND Inc uit Denver (Colorado) in de Verenigde Staten, is een ervaren partij bij het maken van taxonomieën, zij doen dit al drie decennia lang. WAND haar focus ligt op het beschikbaar stellen van taxonomie gebaseerde oplossingen die hun klanten helpen bij het organiseren en terug vinden van ongestructureerde data op een meer effectieve manier. WAND’s klanten gebruiken de taxonomieën in online gouden gidsen, lokaal zoeken, advertentie targeting engines, B2B gidsen, e-commerce, content management en binnen bedrijfsinterne zoekmachines. WAND’s taxonomie bibliotheek omvat meer dan 500 domein specifieke taxonomieën waaronder 33 verschillende producten, diensten, arbeidsmarkt, reizen, detailhandel, zorg, financiële dienstverlening, records retention en algemene organisatorische zoek onderwerpen. Tevens worden op regelmatige basis nieuwe domeinen toegevoegd.

WAND’s bibliotheek van taxonomieën kan worden geïnstalleerd in de SharePoint 2010 term store en de DataFacet taxonomie manager en auto classificatie tool kan worden geïntegreerd, zodat een document bij het uploaden in SharePoint automatisch voorzien wordt van labels met de juiste metadata uit de taxonomie.

“WAND’s DataFacet oplossing is een significante toevoeging aan The Livingstone Group’s ‘best of breed’ oplossingen aanbod en een aanwinst voor onze klanten,” aldus Willem Koelewijn, CEO van The Livingstone Group. “Onze partnership met WAND brengt ons fantastische opportunity’s, maar belangrijker het respresenteerd een fantastische waarde voor onze klanten”.

The Livingstone Group gaat ook een rol spelen in de vertaling van WAND’s taxonomieën in het Nederlands. We zijn al begonnen met het vertalen van de ‘general business taxonomy’.

Mark Leher, WAND’s COO, zegt “WAND DataFacet en WAND Taxonomieen helpen onze klanten al jaren met het organiseren van content in SharePoint 2010. We zijn blij met de partnerovereenkomst met The Livingstone Group, zodat we ons aanbod naar de Nederlandse markt kunnen brengen, want zij hebben inzicht in hoe hun klanten nu echt waarde uit SharePoint kunnen halen.

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The Livingstone Group B.V. partners with WAND Inc.

Hans van Dalen — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:57:11 +0000

The Livingstone Group B.V. partners with WAND Inc. to drive their clients to organize and search electronic content more effectively throughout the Benelux and Greater Europe.

Goes, The Netherlands – 18 July 2012 – Dutch SharePoint specialist The Livingstone Group B.V. announced today that it has reached a reseller and implementation partnership agreement with WAND Inc. for its industry taxonomies and its DataFacet automatic tagging solution.

Based in Denver Colorado USA, WAND Inc. been building taxonomies for nearly three decades. WAND is focused on providing taxonomy based solutions to help its clients organize and search unstructured information more effectively. WAND’s clients use its taxonomies inonline yellow pages,local search, ad-targeting engines, B2B directories, e-commerce, content management, spend analysis, and within enterprise search engines. WAND’s Taxonomy Library contains more than 500 domain specific taxonomies including 33 different products, services, jobs, travel, retail, medical, financial services, records retention, and general enterprise search topics with more domains being added on a regular basis.

WAND’s library of taxonomies can be installed in Sharepoint 2010 term store and the DataFacet taxonomy manager and auto-classification tools can be integrated so that a document added to Sharepoint will be automatically tagged with the appropriate metadata from the taxonomies.

“WAND’s DataFacet solution is a significant addition to The Livingstone Group’s solution set and customer base”, said Willem Koelewijn, CEO of the Livingstone Group. “Our partnership with WAND will deliver great opportunities for us, but more important will also bring great value to our customers”.

The Livingstone Group will also play a role in the translation of WAND’s taxonomies into the Dutch language. We already started this process for the general business taxonomy.

Mark Leher, WAND’s COO, commented that ”WAND DataFacet and WAND Taxonomies have been helping our clients organize content in SharePoint 2010 for years. We are pleased to partner with The Livingstone Group to bring this value to the Dutch market because they have an understanding of how their clients can get true value out of SharePoint.

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The Livingstone Group sluit partner contract met Azurati Ltd (Dutch)

Hans van Dalen — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:46:28 +0000

The Livingstone Group B.V. heeft een partner contract afgesloten met Azurati Ltd met als doel het brengen van de veilige mobiele onderneming naar de Benelux en breder Europa.

Goes, 3 augustus 2012 – Software en oplossingen leverancier The Livingstone Group B.V. heeft vandaag bekend gemaakt dat het een wederverkoper en implementatie contract heeft afgesloten met mobiele ondernemingen software leverancier Azurati Ltd uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk.

Azurati ontwikkelt mobiele versies van enterprise applicaties waardoor het mogelijk wordt dat kenniswerkers continue toegang hebben tot de kritieke applicatie wanneer ze niet op kantoor zijn. Azurati’s vlaggenschip, SharePoint2GoTM, maakt het mogelijk voor Microsoft SharePoint gebruikers om SharePoint te raadplegen vanaf iedere smartphone of tablet. Met de unieke gebruikersinterface is het makkelijker om te navigeren in SharePoint met alle soorten mobiele devices.

“Azurati’s platform ASAPTM en SharePoint2GoTM levert een significante toevoeging aan ons portfolio en zal onze toegevoegde waarde enorm verhogen voor onze klanten,” aldus Willem Koelewijn, CEO van The Livingstone Group. “We geloven sterk in de mobiele toekomst, en met Azurati producten en onze kennis over het onderwerp kunnen we onze bestaande en nieuwe klanten helpen met het vervullen van hun mobiele strategie.”

The Livingstone Group is altijd bezig met een zoektocht naar applicaties die snel waarde toevoegen voor hun klanten. SharePoint2GoTM is zo een applicatie: gemakkelijk in het gebruik en het lost een actueel probleem op. Met de kennis van Azurati gecombineerd met de kennis van The Livingstone Group is het mogelijk om uw mobiele strategie vervuld te zien.

“Azurati verwelkomd The Livingstone Group in haar partner netwerk en kijkt uit naar de samenwerking bij het leveren van veilige BYOD-klare mobiele oplossingen,” aldus Ronan Lavelle, CEO bij Azurati Ltd.

Pers bericht hier

The Livingstone Group partners with Azurati Ltd

Hans van Dalen — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:44:33 +0000

The Livingstone Group partners with Azurati to bring secure mobile SharePoint access on any smartphone or tablet to the Benelux and greater Europe.

Goes, The Netherlands – 1 August 2012 – Dutch software and solutions vendor The Livingstone Group BV announced today that it has reached a reseller and implementation partnership agreement with UK based mobile enterprise software vendor Azurati Ltd.

Azurati develops cross-platform mobile versions of enterprise applications to enable mobile knowledge workers to continue to use business-critical enterprise applications when they are not in the office. Azurati’s flagship solution, SharePoint2GoTM, allows Microsoft SharePoint® users to access SharePoint on any mobile or tablet device with a uniquely designed user interface to make SharePoint easier to navigate on mobile devices.

“Azurati’s ASAPTM platform and SharePoint2GoTM brings a significant addition to our solution set and will increase our value proposition for our customers,” said Willem Koelewijn, CEO of The Livingstone Group. “We strongly believe in the mobile future, with Azurati products and our knowledge we can help our existing and new customers achieve their enterprise mobility strategy.”

The Livingstone Group is always looking for applications that can immediately add value to their customers. SharePoint2Go is such an application; easy to use, and solving a ‘today problem’. With the knowledge of Azurati combined with the knowledge of The Livingstone Group we are able to achieve your enterprise mobility strategy.

”Azurati welcomes the Livingstone Group to its Partner Network and looks forward to working with them to deliver secure BYOD-ready mobile solutions .” said Ronan Lavelle, CEO of Azurati Ltd.

Press release here

Installation of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Preview – A tutorial

Hans van Dalen — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:40:21 +0000

Originally posted on http://www.mssharepoint2013.com

In this blogpost I want you to guide you trough the installation process of SharePoint 2013 preview, as it is released 16 July 2012. I simply execute this installation on our test rig running on Windows server 2008 and a seperate SQL Server 2008 server as database. First priority is to get the thing up and running, so we can start our functional tests, and blog also about the business and functional site of SharePoint 2013.

First of all you had to download the image of SharePoint at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_121_1_33 and connect the image to your virtual machine (I am expecting you are using a virtual server). Our test rig is using VMWARE ESC technology so I upload the IMG file to our datastore, rename it to ISO and connect it to one of our test VM’s in this case TLG03. Now I have the image available as a CD drive.

First thing what attracts my attention after opening the CD drive, is the setup.exe, with the new Office logo as icon. Why not give it a try and start installation imidiatly, manuals are for other people .

When I runs the setup.exe I got setup errors, a list of pre-requisites that are not installed. “For the list of pre-requisites needed to install the product please refer to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=230806“. I close the message

Lucky enough, deliverd with SharePoint 2013, is the prerequisiteinstaller.exe, which I will execute in order to get all the pre requisites fixed.

The tool gives me an overview of the stuff that needs to be fixed before we can install SharePoint.

Of course I need to accept the License agreement.

And then the pre requisite installer will install several missing things like the .NET framework 4.5…..

And configuring the Application Server Role…

And Finally I need to restart the complete system.

After the reboot of Windows 2008, the pre requisite installer continues to configure the application server role.

And now we have completed to install the pre requisites and hit finish to finish this installer.

Now lets try again, hitting the setup.exe to finally install SharePoint 2013…

But… for some reason we need to restart again, the pre requisite installer didn’t mention that; whatever, lets reboot again.

After reboot, let’s give it another try… hit the setup.exe button, I’m feeling lucky

Enter your license key as it was provided during download. If you lost it, go to the download page again, it will apear on the bottom of that page.

Of course, we need to accept these agreement as well.

Select the server type you want. I tick ‘Complete’ since I have a seperate server within this domain running SQL server 2008 for me. If you tick Stand-alone it will install everything at once on a single server, including an SQL Express edition. This last option is ideal if you want to run SharePoint on a single machine, just for testing reasons. Again I select Complete, the installation for Stand-alone might be slightly different.

And installation starts, let’s sit back and relax.

After the installation you can immediatly start the configuration wizard, which will configure the database and so on and so fort. You can start this configuration from the start menu as well

The configuration wizard starts with a warm welcome.

During configuration IIS will be restarted, effecting other users of this service. Do you want that yes or no?

I am doing a brand new installation, so I want to create a new server farm.

Here is where I have to configure my database. I provide the right credentials for our test database SQL server.

Providing a Passphrase for the farm. This passphrase is used to secure farm configuration data and is required for each server that joins the farm. The passphrase can be changed after the farm is configured.

I don’t want to configure Kerberos now, so I select NTLM as authentication provider

These are the settings provided, correct? Yes press next.

Now the wizard will configure your SharePoint 2013 installation, like creating configuration databases.

After a couple of minutes waiting, the confugration is finished and succesful! Let’s finish this wizard.

Central Administration will automatically pop up, and ask you if you want to participate in Microsofts Customer Experience Improvement Program. If Yes is selected, error reports will be automatically uploaded to Microsoft.

I want to configure using the wizard, and I am using a newly created service account. I created this account in AD and give it administrator rights. I leave the rest of the options default.

At least SharePoint 2013 is polite….

The we need to create a Site Collection, I made my top site a publishing portal.

Wizard is finished, all basic settings are done.

And we’ll get back at Central Administration.

And we have a Publishing Portal in SharePoint 2013 available!

If you have any questions, running into problems, please do not hesitate to contact me. We’ll keep you posted on more great stuff to come. Now we have our installation , we are going to move on, digg deep and try things for you!

The Livingstone Group launches SharePoint 2013 blog: mssharepoint2013.com

Hans van Dalen — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:59:52 +0000

Today we announce the launch of our SharePoint 2013 blog www.mssharepoint2013.com. In anticipation to our visit of the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas in November, and the (expected) release of SharePoint 2013, we are going to blog about a broad type of topics. These topics will vary from installation descriptions of the preview release, to records management in depth, to what about managing your SharePoint 2013 implementation project and everything in between.

We are more then happy to welcome SharePoint specialists that are not related to our company to blog on www.mssharepoint2013.com. Feel free to contact us about the possibilities.

Stay tuned at www.mssharepoint2013.com.

Livelink to SharePoint migration, what about SharePoint 2013 (beta)?

Hans van Dalen — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:10:12 +0000

In a way it sounds a little bit too early when we answer the question ‘can you migrate our Livelink environment to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 (beta)?’ with ‘Yes, we can!’. But is it really to early, are we bluffing? No we are not.

Our TLG MyGreater is exporting documents, and more, from Livelink using standard formats like XML, and will format the documents, metadata, and so on and so fort into a SharePoint specific format. We are using Metavis Migrator to import your Livelink objects into SharePoint.

The good news is that Metavis Migrator is READY to migrate to SharePoint 2013 (beta), including the Office 365 environment.

http://www.metavistech.com/SharePoint2013-migration

Start planning your SharePoint 2013 deployment strategy now! MetaVis products are now SharePoint 2013 ready. Our tools help with with migration, information architecture, security, backup and information management. Don’t wait, download a free trial today and begin planning your SharePoint 2013 migration strategy.

MetaVis has been working closely with Microsoft to ensure that customers and partners migrating to SharePoint 2013 have all the tools necessary for success. MetaVis products leverage new Web-based APIs to support past, current and future versions of SharePoint at the time of release. All MetaVis products work with SharePoint 2013, Office 365, SharePoint 2010, 2007 and 2003.

Our advice, if you want to migrate your Livelink environment to SharePoint 2013 in the first half of 2013, is to contact us as soon as possible. We can already start the process, do quick scans, and propose our (usual) fixed price offer. This gives you and your company the time to make a proper decision.

Follow all news and test of SharePoint 2013 on our blog about SharePoint 2013: http://www.mssharepoint2013.com (available on July 18th, 2012).

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 unveiled

Hans van Dalen — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:36:56 +0000

On July 16th 2012, Microsoft unveils the new Office including a new version of Office 365 and SharePoint 2013. The Livingstone Group is currently working on the last issues on opening a blog site about SharePoint 2013 at www.mssharepoint2013.com. We will release this site early tomorrow morning (CET).

You still can watch the cast of the presenation on this location: www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/.

For now we collect all important links for you if you want to know more about SharePoint 2013:
Download the SharePoint 2013 Server preview

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_121_1_33

Office 2013 training site

http://officepreview.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx

Download SharePoint Designer 2013

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30346

Download SharePoint 2013 Foundation

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30345

Download SharePoint 2013 Client SDK

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30355

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