You may have heard that Microsoft NextGen Portals are coming. And maybe you are already using tools like Delve that are the first generation of these NextGen Portals. But many questions around NextGen Portals have gone unanswered. Get the answers you need to better understand and use Microsoft NextGen Portals. In this webinar, Portal Solutions’ Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Josh Steiner discuss the most frequently asked questions about NextGen Portals. - What are NextGen Portals anyway? - Why are NextGen Portals important? - When are NextGen Portals coming?

1. Microsoft NextGen Portals: What? Why? When?

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3. Daniel Cohen-Dumani
@dcohendumani
Founder
and CEO
Blogger: SME for Portal Solutions
Digital Workplace Today Blog
Areas of Interest:
Portal and Collaboration,
Productivity and Efficiencies
A passion for Simplicity
and Speed to Market
About Me

4. Joshua Steiner
@JoshuaMSteiner
Practice
Director
Leads Portal Solutions’ Team of
Project Managers and Business
Analysts
Areas of Interest: User Adoption,
Information Architecture
A Passion for Knowledge
Management and Pain-
Free Content Migrations
About Me

5. 1. Build a good foundation to understand
the difference between turnkey and
custom intranets.
2. What are portal essentials and trends?
3. Where is Microsoft coming from, little
bit of history.
4. What are NextGen Portals, where are we
today, what is available?
5. What is the importance and what does
it mean for you?
6. What is the timeline, when can we
expect to see NextGen Portals?
Session Learning Objectives

6. What Is Your Portal Platform Based On?
 SharePoint Online/Office 365
 SharePoint (not sure what version)
 IBM Connection/Lotus Notes
 Turnkey such as Jive, Igloo, Jostle
 Other Platforms (Wordpress, Drupal, SiteCore, for example)
Poll

7. Tools & Forms
Communication
Departments
Projects
People
Gateway
Mobile
Portal Essentials
“How do I…?”
“What’s going on…?”
“Don’t ask me, find it yourself…!”
“What’s the status…?”
“Who has worked on…?”
“What’s the address for…?”
“Access anywhere”

8. Trends
- Microsoft SharePoint has over 160 million users worldwide and over 75,000
customers over on-premises and online.
- The SharePoint ecosystem has grown to over 1M developers and represents
an $8B market for products and services.
- SharePoint is still a strong investment at Microsoft.
- But wait… there is a problem!
Maintenance of custom
SharePoint solutions has
grown exponentially
There are so many custom
solutions on SharePoint
that upgrading and
supporting solutions is
more complex than ever
SharePoint UI has aged and
many users are dissatisfied
with the platform

9. What Is Microsoft's Vision For The Future?
Empower every person and every organization
on the planet to achieve more
Mobile-first
Create more personal
computing
Reinvent productivity & business
processes
Build the intelligent cloud
platform
Cloud-first
Provide ready-to-go
portals plus the ability to
create custom portals to
support organization-
wide productivity across
online, on-premises and
hybrid.

10. So What Are Microsoft NextGen Portals Anyways?
Ready-to-go portals with the ability to create custom portals to support organization-
wide productivity across online, on-premises and hybrid.
Video Delve “InfoPedia”
Intelligent  Social  Mobile  Ready-To-Go
ENHANCED BY KEY OFFICE 365 CAPABILITIES

11. Roadmap Portal – What Does It Mean For Custom Portals?
2016 2017 2018
Common
controls & APIs
available to
developers

12. What Exists Today?
Office 365 Videos Delve People Experiences
Office 365 Groups New Page Authoring
OneDrive for Business

13.  New Page Authoring
 Delve
 Office Videos
Demonstration

14. Why This Is So Important
Current SharePoint solutions are based on an old platform that is aging
Maintenance of custom SharePoint solutions are rising
Upgrades are complex, time consuming and unpredictable
Microsoft recognizes they have created too much complexity by giving
users too much freedom to build

15. Why Should You Look At NextGen Portals?
Simplicity
Cloud
Productivity
No Upgrade
Speed and
Performance
Continuous
Improvement
Modern and
responsive

16. What Should You Know About Them?
A word of caution……
New
• Some of the new portals are unfinished
• You can’t turn all features on/off
Functionality
• Some missing functionality
• No historical governance
• Lack of customization
• No branding options
Release
• Release is scattered across tenants (you
can’t predict when you will see them)
• There may be some bugs…..

17. Timeline

18. TodayRoadmap – Microsoft Portal/Intranet Platform
2001
SharePoint
Portal Server 2001
2003
SharePoint
Portal Server 2003
2006
Office SharePoint
Server 2007
2009
SharePoint
Server 2010
2012
SharePoint
Server 2013
2019
SharePoint
Server vNext
Office 365
2016
SharePoint
Server 2016
NextGen Portals
Micro-sites/Groups
InfoPedia
Power BI
Delve People Experience
New UX
New ECM back-end
Turnkey Portals
Microsoft
acquires
Content
Management
Server
Microsoft
acquires
ProClarity
Microsoft
acquires FAST
Search

19. What To Expect In 2016
InfoPedia a.k.a. KM Portal Social (Yammer or Groups)
Planner Magazines
Groups/Micro-Sites OneDrive Enhancements

20. What Is Coming Next?
Q4 15 Q1 16 Q2 16 Q3 16
Planner
Delve
enhanced
experience
New Groups
features
Magazines/
Micro-Sites
InfoPedia
Q4 16
Portal Solutions estimates, not an official roadmap

21. What To Watch For
Disjointed User Experience (Delve vs. Groups vs. InfoPedia)
Licensing and Constraints
Governance
Migration Path from Existing SharePoint Solutions

22. Where Can You Learn More?
Check the Office 365 roadmap (little information)
http://success.office.com/en-us/roadmap
Take a look at the pricing plans
http://portl.me/1RRDFy3
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updates.
Listen to our Podcast:
Microsoft NextGen Portals

23. See Our NextGen Portal In Action
Questions? Contact Jenny Lynch at jlynch@portalsolutions.net
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