Welcome to the September edition of Bamboo e-news!

Temperatures may be cooling, but things are heating up in Las Vegas. It's called "Sin City", but for four days this October, Vegas will become "SharePoint Central".

5,000 participants have already registered for Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, and, as a Gold Sponsor, Bamboo hopes to meet you there.  Swing by Bamboo booth 315 and drop in on our session on Tuesday, October 20th where we will present, "The Future of SharePoint Project Management" with Dux Raymond Sy.

SharePoint File Share Library is on its way to its storefront debut.  It will allow you to have complete access to your existing network file shares, while utilizing the SharePoint Document Libraries interface that users are comfortable with. You can break SharePoint's 50MB file size barrier by seamlessly viewing the documents in the Document Library from the shared drive. While this eliminates the need to import all of your documents into SharePoint, File Share Library can also assist you with a gradual or one-time file import at your discretion. Look for SharePoint File Share Library on our storefront soon.

In response to your feedback and enhancement requests, Task Master v1.5 was released at the end of August. Full of new features, it now provides the ability to track Work, Actual Work, and Remaining Work, and collapse and expand levels in the Task Summary.  Task Master brings powerful, project management specific functionality to your SharePoint portal, enabling complex projects to be created, tracked, and updated with the click of a mouse.  Best of all, if you already own Task Master, this upgrade is free. 

Cheers,

Team Bamboo

Get the skinny on these and other product improvements released in September, including:

• PM Central
• Password Reset Web Part
• SharePoint Knowledge Base Accelerator
• User Profile Plus Web Part
• Group Redirect Web Part
• Bamboo KPI Column Web Part

Align PM Central™ with your Project Management Process

Have you evaluated or purchased PM Central and need some help in matching up the feature set to your business process?   Did you know that Bamboo offers Project Management Central  Guide services that are designed to help you align PM Central to your  Project Management process?

With  PM Central Guide Services you get a personal guide from the Bamboo Solutions Team,  who will review your Project Management process and business process and then guide you with the configuration of your PM Central  to match with your requirements.   Here are some areas we can help you with:

1. Adding new Web Parts to the pages.
2. Adding columns, views to existing lists, other lists and Document Libraries.
3. Changing the look and feel of themes and graphics.
4. Creating new pages and adding new navigation tabs on the Top level and Project site templates.
5. Creating new data rollups for additional information needs for dashboards and data views
6. Setting up new push alerts for discussion boards, document libraries, issue and task escalation.

In addition to this, your personal guide will provide you with tips and tricks based on Project Management Best Practices to fully utilize the inherent collaborative aspects  of SharePoint and PM Central.   This service is a great value-add that maximizes your ROI by ensuring that PM Central becomes the backbone for managing projects in your organization!

Oktoberfest is here at Bamboo!  German partner amexus is teaming up with us to provide our popular Project Management Central webinars in German.   Register today for the October 1st and 15th webinars to learn how PM Central is essential for effective project management.

We are also excited to be a Gold Sponsor at next month’s Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009. Not only will you have the opportunity to meet us in person, but Bamboo Partners will be on hand to talk to you about the solutions they have developed and deployed. 

Join us to learn how companies just like yours are using SharePoint and solving their business problems with the help of Partner expertise.  The participating Bamboo Partners are:   Abel Solutions, amexus, Gig Werks, Impact Management, Innovative-e, Kiefer Consulting, KMA LLC, Liquid Hub, Marquam Group, Oakwood Systems, Organice, StreamLogic, Synergy,  and West Monroe Partners.  So, if you are coming out to Las Vegas for the Microsoft SharePoint show, be sure to visit booth 315 daily to meet our Partners. 

Besides live events, Partners are also busy publishing valuable contentlike West Monroe's Partners' Guidelines for developing a SharePoint Request for Proposal.  This guide helps give direction for providing background and context for your project, defining needs, articulating the type of solution you want.

PM Central Webinars in German
- Bamboo Team Blog [Sept 24, 2009]