Your intranet brings with it the baggage of history. Users are accustomed to consumer tools that look great, move quickly, and allow them to find whatever they need to find, when they need to find it. But these same users are equally accustomed to their business tools that are historically slow, awash in complex menus, and ill-suited to deliver the kind of results they need to do their jobs.

Today on the show, BA Insight Chief Customer Officer Sean Coleman, and Emgage Head of Product Development Harout Katerjian join us to share seven steps to building an internet that your employees will love.

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Collaboration is the word for 2017, and the dominant tool for bringing modern collaboration and communication to your enterprise teams has yet to emerge. Between media darling Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Workplace by Facebook, the coming year is poised to bring a significant settling to this market, and you might find your users clamoring for a new environment as a result.

Peter O'Kelly of O'Kelly Associates joins BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried and Pete Wright for a state of the union of collaboration tools. Peter has been working in this space since the early 1980s. He worked on the Notes product management team for several years, and later ran product management for Groove Networks. He's been an industry analyst (including VP and research director at Burton Group) and also worked on enterprise collaboration solutions at Microsoft. Today, as an independent consultant, Peter helps software vendors with product and competitive strategies in communication, collaboration and database tools.

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This week on the show, BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried joins us to share his predictions for 2017 across the search landscape. From Microsoft Graph to Facebook to Teams and Slack, not to mention his milestones on the road of the inexorable march to the cloud, Jeff shares his recommendations that might just influence where you place your attention in the coming year. Before we get started, we've got a recap of just how far we've come in the last 18 months.

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We’re talking about Intelligent Intranets on the show this week, this on the heels of Jeff Fried’s talk at Intranätverk in Stockholm. But today, we approach intelligence not from the perspective of IT and system administrators, but for Intranet managers, those who are looking for an Intranet that’s connected, organized, flexible, personalized, and proactive, but don’t always have the deep technical resources to deliver. This week on Shared Insights, Jeff shares his experience as a speaker at the conference and his key observations from this global community of those on the front lines of managing their Intranets.

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BA Insight co-founder and director of product development Tony Malandain joins us today to share the product development perspective on Microsoft's innovations in Cloud Hybrid Search.

Any migration brings complexity, but a move from on-premises to the cloud brings with it whole classes of "gotchas" in security, extensibility, and even once-familiar administration. From the perspective of our listeners struggling around any sort of migration and the complexity that comes with it, Tony will share his perspective on why Cloud Hybrid Search matters to us today, and give you a roadmap to some of the obstacles that can trip you up in the process.

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As promised last week, we’re continuing our recap of Microsoft Ignite 2016 with two more terrific guests. Neil Hodgkinson is senior program manager at Microsoft in the Sharepoint Product Group and Mikael Svenson is principal consultant at Puzzlepart and Partner Technology Solution Professional for Microsoft. Both our guests managed an exhaustive presenter schedule at the conference. As such, we open our conversation by assessing the key messages critical to adoption and implementation coming from the engineering teams, and how well they feel those messages were received.

Hybrid, the cloud, Azure, Intelligence, and even Delve are all on the table as our guest experts share their wisdom and excitement for both what was announced at Ignite, and what brilliant partners will be building on top of these platforms next.

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BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried is back and well recovered from his Atlanta adventures at Microsoft Ignite 2016. This week on Shared Insights, Jeff brings us his report from the conference and a review of the things that will matter most for those who use and administer Microsoft business tools.

The big themes of the event were built on four pillars: Security, Intelligence (especially machine learning), Collaboration, and Cloud. New features in SharePoint aim to leverage new tools on each pillar, from modern Teamsites, the SharePoint Framework, and new Microsoft Graph capabilities to boot. Microsoft highlighted a deep new strategic partnership with Adobe and their Creative and Marketing Cloud products which looks to be a promising long-term relationship a rich source of new business intelligence.

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Today, we’re talking about security — Search Security — and the unique complexity that comes with administering a system that is both secure and fluid for your users. Security and auth is a complicated subject to begin with. But the requirements of search — to be both completely secure and efficient for users across heterogeneous systems — makes search security even more complex. To help us dive into this subject is our very own John Lenker, pilot, solutions architect for BA Insight. John demonstrates what it takes to build a responsive and secure search, from Active Directory integration to policy maintenance, across massive and diverse collections!

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Richard Harbridge serves as Chief Technology Officer and an owner of 2toLead. In his work, his writing and speaking, he’s become an invaluable resource to our community. He’s a trusted advisor to hundreds of organizations, helping them understand their current and future technology needs. To the rest of us, he’s an outspoken contributor to the field; an internationally recognized expert in Microsoft technology as well as marketing and professional services. It is thanks to his widely regarded expertise in this last area that he joins us on Shared Insights today as we take on technology trends impacting the professional services and legal industry: what’s working, and what is yet to come on our technology road ahead?

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If your users have been in enterprise long enough, they likely have a conflicted relationship with the word Intranet. Is it the gold standard of deep access and collaboration? Or is it an even deeper well of lost assets? We’ve seen it all. Today, BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried brings us hope that in fact Intranets are changing, and builds a case that your next internet will be better, smarter, and faster.

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