Author: Rob D'Oria

10 years ago I was the CTO at Bluethread Technologies, the folks behind StoragePoint. While I don’t remember the exact date, we launched StoragePoint at the SPTechCon in Boston in July 2009. That launch was accompanied by a tool I coined the BLOBulator. It was just a windows app that scanned your farm, analyzed content databases, and told you how much smaller they would be if you externalized the BLOBs. …

frank.en.form noun

1. an electronic form that has been over-engineered to the point where it is largely unusable and/or impossible to maintain.
2. an electronic form that makes use of platform features and/or functionality in ways they were never intended to be used.
3. an electronic form built without the “just because I can doesn’t mean I should” sanity check that a trained and experienced IT professional possesses. …

There’s one thing that all organizations have lots of…and that’s forms. Forms for employees coming, employees going, customers buying, customers complaining, vendors looking to get paid, and more. …