This is introduction to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite

1. Introduction to Microsoft Business
Productivity Online Suite(BPOS)
Atul Totre (http://atotre.wordpress.com)

2. Atul Totre
Collaboration Practice Director, US West for Burntsand Inc
More than 16 years of IT industry experience
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Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist- MOSS and WSS (Configuration and Development)
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TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect
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PMP and Certified SCRUM Master
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Writes Applied SharePoint blog @ atotre.wordpress.com
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Introduction

3. What is BPOS?
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What does it offer?
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How does it work?
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How much does it cost?
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The good, the bad and the ugly
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Benefits
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Limitations
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Who is it for?
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Questions
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Agenda

4.  BPOS=Microsoft Business Productivity Online
Suite
◦ Microsoft’s entry in “Software as a Service” market
◦ Hosted software delivered to you on Pay-as-you-go
subscription basis
◦ Microsoft manages the hardware and the platform
software; you use it for your business use
What is BPOS?

5.  BPOS=Microsoft Business Productivity Online
Suite
◦ It is a hosted solution delivering
collaboration, messaging, communication and
business productivity
◦ Attempts to simplify IT administration, streamline
communication and deliver business-class continuity
◦ You get enterprise-class software hosted by
Microsoft on subscription basis
 You let Microsoft manage their own server setup, patches
etc
What is BPOS?

6.  BPOS=Microsoft Business Productivity Online
Suite
◦ Available in “Shared” (Multi-Tenant) or “Dedicated”
(Sole-Tenant) mode
 Shared: You access the service based on hardware which
hosts multiple similar services used by others
 Dedicated: The servers are hosting only your services and
thus are dedicated to your organization
What is BPOS?

7.  BPOS=Microsoft Business Productivity Online
Suite
◦ Includes:
 SharePoint Online
 Exchange Online
 Office Communications Online- Only available in Dedicated
mode for now
 Office Live Meeting
 Exchange Hosted services –
a collection of services for emails
includes filtering, archiving,
encryption and continuity
What is available in BPOS?

8. BPOS: Dedicated vs Shared
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Dedicated Shared
You need 5000 users As minimum as 5 users
$15/per user/per month $15/per user/per month
You get your own server Shared server setup
setup
High-level of control Low-lever of control
High-degree of potential Low-degree of potential
customization customization
Low Risk – It has only High Risk- If some other
your content so you don’t tenant’s software crashes
have the risk of failure the server, then you get
because of someone else affected
Dedicated vs Shared

9. BPOS: Is it for me?
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◦ We want to pay only for the features and products we use
◦ We do not want to take responsibility of managing the servers and we do
not have the skill-set to manage such an environment
◦ We do not have the need for onsite servers for collaboration, email etc
◦ We buy in to all things in cloud as we currently use Google services so we
are comfortable with the model
◦ We are okay with some downtime if it happens and we trust the provider
◦ We outsource all our technical services as it is not our core business
◦ We operate a lean organization and hence do not want to add IT staff
◦ … Then you might want to consider BPOS
Business Case

10. BPOS: Costs
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◦ $15 per seat per month
◦ Limited time offer at $7.50 per seat per month
How much it costs?

11. Default Admin
Pages
Your site
Admin
People and Groups
Login / Search /
HTTP(s) Lists
Lookup Document
Presentation
Libraries
Default Pages
Administrator Workflows
Custom UI and
HTTP(s) web parts
Search
Documents, Business Logic
Reports, Pages
etc
User Sites
Custom Pages and
Web Parts
SharePoint Online Host
Architecture

12. You don’t own the servers and you don’t manage
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◦ So no updates, patches, backup and maintenance
You can get up and running quickly
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 You get latest software
 You can scale up easily as you grow
 Simplified and centralized administration
 You can estimate and manage how much you will pay
 You get business continuity and disaster recovery
◦ You get data recovery as all data is backed up at highly secure data center
◦ 99.99% uptime SLA
You get readily available remote access to your content
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 Provide secure mobile access to your mobile users easily
Benefits

13. Limited functionality for customizing the SharePoint Online
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◦ Visual Studio based customization not supported
◦ Only SharePoint Designer based customizations supported
 Which are normally limited
Line of business integration not supported for now and can be a
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challenge in future
Your organizational Active Directory based authentication can
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not be used
You can use it to create simple collaboration sites on SharePoint
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but not complex business productivity solutions involving
custom workflows
Limitations

14. SharePoint Online Deep Dive
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◦ Differences between dedicated SharePoint and SharePoint Online
◦ Developer guide for SharePoint online
◦ What can be done with SharePoint Online?
Next

15. Contact information:
◦ Atul Totre
 Atul.totre@gmail.com
 Atotre.wordpress.com
Thank you!
Questions