1. Integrating Groove into your Enterprise Aaron Saikovski Senior Consultant, Readify (Founder of www.ozmoss.com) E: aaron.saikovski@readify.net W: www.readify.net B: http://ruskydotnet.blogspot.com/

3. Introduction

4. The New World Of Work One world of business Always on, always connected Transparent organization Simplify working together Find info and improve business insight Secure and manage content Workplace Trends Role of Software

5. The World became “flat” We need to work together regardless of geography, time zones, or affiliation Disconnected employee Off-site employee Customer Partner Employee Employee I need to work with content even when I am offline Our email system cannot handle large attachments I need to send files securely – this is sensitive content! VPN is too slow or just does not work – how do I work together?! Where is this personal touch you talked about when I became a customer?

6. Disconnected employee Customer Off-site employee Employee Employee Flatten Your Software Really, use technology to make your topology appear flat Contractor

8. What is Groove?

10. Who gets the most value?

13. Key Features

15. Groove and SharePoint

16. Better Together SharePoint is at the center of the organisation providing search, portal, long term storage, etc The edge of the organisation – hard to access resources through this barrier Groove then logically sits here – loosely coupled on the edge providing services for external collaboration, taskforce formation, and other edge activities SharePoint

19. Questions?