Archive for September, 2010
What is SharePoint Server 2010 Timer Jobs?
SharePoint Server 2010 is rich in features. And here’s this feature of SharePoint Server 2010—Timer Job—which is as good as other features of SharePoint Server 2010. A timer job runs in a specific Windows service for SharePoint Server and performs infrastructure tasks for the Timer service, such as clearing the timer job history and recycling the Timer service; and tasks for Web applications, such as sending e-mail alerts. A timer job contains a definition of the service to run and specifies how frequently the service is started. The SharePoint 2010 Timer service (SPTimerv4) runs timer jobs. The Timer Job feature is also available in SharePoint Foundation.
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Monitor your Business using SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services
What is PerformancePoint Services?
Most of the time it happens that the metrics that make up your key performance indicators are not simple values from a data source. In SharePoint Server 2007 PerformancePoint Services, you could create two kinds of KPI metrics: Simple single value metrics from any supported data source or Complex multiple value metrics from a single Analysis Services data source using MDX. Now things are even easier with Performance Point Services in SharePoint 2010. Let us check what is it?
PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2010 is a performance management service that you can use to monitor and analyze your business. By providing flexible, easy-to-use tools for building dashboards, scorecards, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs), PerformancePoint Services can help everyone across an organization make informed business decisions that align with companywide objectives and strategy. Scorecards, dashboards, and KPIs help drive accountability. Integrated analytics help employees move quickly from monitoring information to analyzing it and, when appropriate, sharing it throughout the organization.
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Listing of Web 2.0 Applications (Part 4)
Group-O-Matic–a free service which helps people form local groups of friends and strangers for different kinds of events. Each different group is given a common web page that will be used in promoting their group and enlisting new members.
Trendio–a neat community-based game. You will be able to see how good you are in predicting the future of politics, news, sports, entertainment, or technology. The site will be able to rank trends in many categories, and this will depend on how much buzz they are able to get in online media. The users can trade in these trends with fictive money, similar to shares in a stock market.