Welcome
Hi. My name is Paul Culmsee of Seven Sigma Business Solutions and welcome to my blog. For my bio, go to my about page. On this site, I discuss mainly SharePoint issues, with particular reference to strategy, governance and return on investment issues, but sometimes I end up writing techno-babble articles too
If you are an IT decision maker, and non propeller-head, or simply interested in topics on the softer side on people and technology, then the articles listed on the right side of this screen are probably for you. For the technical oriented readers, the left side is probably what you are looking for. I do write long posts, I’ll admit, but I try and keep them interesting with some humour.








April 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pm |
Hi Paul, this is just amazing. I’ve been spending the last month or so looking for blogs related to WSS and MOSS. And what do you know, I find yours today, and realise that you’re based in PERTH as well!!! I’m new to the MOSS world, and would definitely be coming here everyday. Please keep up the excellent work
April 8th, 2008 at 3:31 pm |
Hi Paul. Does your site have an rss feed hidden somewhere? I’d love to keep up to date with content you write… Thanks
Brad
April 8th, 2008 at 7:57 pm |
yes mate this ought to do it
http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/feed
May 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm |
Excellent site from another Perth inhabitant
June 16th, 2008 at 7:00 pm |
Very useful and entertaining SharePoint posts in this blog.
[Have you viewed Andy’s SharePoint Blog : http://andydalesharepoint.blogspot.com/
Regards,
Andy Dale
Officetalk
Tel 01386 833 535
Email : andy.dale@office-talk.com
Blog : http://andydalesharepoint.blogspot.com/
August 14th, 2008 at 3:37 pm |
Whoops – Paul, hit submit a little too early. Please delete out my previous post and use this:
Paul, you wouldn’t believe how your site saved our project in several ways here in Tokyo, Japan.
Very keen approach in finding solutions. Trial and error scenarios building up to the punchline, true knowledge-sharing, and giving credit where it’s due. Excellent site – Thanks from Japan!!
PS – so what’s with Perth, anyhow? Is that some big IT Mecca that I don’t know about?
Regards,
Alan Wooley
E-Mail: adwooley2@yahoo.com
January 13th, 2009 at 4:55 pm |
nSynergy SharePoint Document management and collaboration software architectures allow organisations to centralise and better manage all electronic information with its seamless integration of Microsoft SharePoint into the Microsoft Office suite of products in intranet, extranet and internet.
There is more information at nSynergy International or mail to info@nsynergy.com.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:59 pm |
Dear Paul,
Hope you are best of your health, My Manager would like to about sharepoint, i would really appreciate if you send me your contact details and give us date and time so he may call you.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Regards,
Alex Jim
+1 609 439 4967
alex.jim@visionetsystems.com
June 16th, 2009 at 1:51 am |
Would be great to obtain your professional feedback regarding a mobile development framework for SharePoint that we just launched.
Mobile Entrée(TM) is the first ever SharePoint mobile application framework.
The full featured code is available for download with a 30 day trial. Natively our solution supports iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Palm webOS devices.
http://www.mobileentree.com/default.aspx
Along with the developer SDK and Install are video tutorials that will walk through the solution. Additionally, if you are interested, I can arrange a personal demonstration via LiveMeeting.
Kindest regards,
Jason
+1 703 386 5425
June 17th, 2009 at 5:55 am |
Hi Paul. When are you releasing Part 8 of Leave Workflow? I enjoyed reading it and following the instructions. Now we need you to finish the workflow so we can finish ours as well. I’m new to MOSS. I found so many helpful info on your blogs. Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Estrella
June 17th, 2009 at 8:54 am |
Hi Estrella
So sorry this has taken a back seat. I will get back to it soon as I have the whole series mapped out. Just a little pushed for time at the moment
Stay tuned
Paul
August 21st, 2009 at 1:27 pm |
Hi from the East side
September 18th, 2009 at 5:01 pm |
Hi Paul,
When will ‘A tribute to the humble “leave form” – Part 8′ be published?
It has been 7 months since Part 7 was published.
Regards
Wayne
September 18th, 2009 at 9:50 pm |
Oh man, I am getting some hassle about this! October
November 12th, 2009 at 7:25 am |
Paul you are a god sent!!! Keep up the good work!
November 24th, 2009 at 6:57 am |
Hi Paul,
How is part 8 of the leave form article coming along? Keep up the great work.
Cheers,
Raoul
January 26th, 2010 at 10:27 pm |
Hey Paul, first time caller, love the “Leave Form” article series…but you have me hanging on like a cliffhanger tv show…are you still planning on releasing article #8? I’m really interested to see how you handle the workflow part of the process. If you have moved on and aren’t planning on publishing #8, please just let us know…release us
Thx, Kelly M
January 27th, 2010 at 7:00 pm |
Hi Kelly
Part 8 is half done and has been for a long long time. I am seriously thinking of rebooting the entire series for SharePoint 2010. Right now, other priorities make this very hard to devote time to. Sorry I can’t give you an ETA. I am stupidly busy all the way through till April.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:09 pm |
Hi Paul – you’ve got some pretty amazing information on your blog and I’m finding your laid back style of writing about somewhat mind boggling issues truely inspiring! Great stuff. Greetings from bloody cold Europe..
February 16th, 2010 at 2:41 pm |
Don’t reboot the ‘Leave Form’ Series to 2010!! I’m running MOSS 2007 and don’t plan on upgrading to 2010 for while yet
Went right through the series today as I am trying to get my people here to start using Sharepoint more and was looking for something simply that they could see the benefit of using…and your Leave Form series has been perfect so far! We still use a manual fill out a piece of paper form and dumping this could be a great ‘first step’ and getting more of them used to Sharepoint. Look forward to the rest of the article when you get a bit of spare time to finish it off.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:02 am |
Check out my new book on Deploying and Managing SharePoint using COBiT 4.1. I cover SharePoint 2007 and 2010, on prem and in the cloud
Here is the link on the Isaca web site bookstore
http://www.isaca.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=55584&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm
Cheers
Dave Chennault
February 25th, 2010 at 10:03 am |
http://www.isaca.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=55584&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm
February 25th, 2010 at 1:04 pm |
Hi Paul,
I am just start learning about this.And looking for blogs related to WSS and MOSS. And I find yours today, and realise that what i want i can get here.I’m new to the MOSS world, and would definitely be coming here everyday. Please keep up the excellent work