2. Agenda
Tijd Onderwerpen Presentator
10:30 Introductie DBS, Jochem Dijs
10:40 Wat is SharePoint? DBS, Tom Brand
11:00 DBS SharePoint oplossingen DBS, Tom Brand
11:30 Pauze
11:45 SharePoint 2010 DBS, Tom Brand
12:30 Microsoft in de Wolken DBS, Tom Brand
13:00 Afsluiten en Lunch
3. DBS
• Opgericht in 1994
• Lange historie
• 125 medewerkers
• Nederland
• Ierland
• Duitsland
• Omzet: > 14 miljoen euro
• > 1.200 klanten
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
5. Visie op Software Implementatie
• Het Nieuwe Werken van Microsoft
• Globalisering, Altijd on-line, Evolutie van de
arbeidsmarkt, Transparantie
• Traditioneel, gestructureerde software
applicaties – ERP, CRM, Project Management
etc.
• Flexibele tools zoals SharePoint, LinkedIn,
Facebook etc.
8. …de (arbeids)markt verandert
• Vergrijzing >65 jaar - groei 20,5% tot 2015
• Jongere werknemers denken/werken
wezenlijk anders
• Verdubbeling aantal werknemers in
dienstensector tussen 1950 en 2000
• Kennis vervangt grondstoffen als belangrijkste
productiefactor
• Issue: productiviteit van kenniswerkers
9. …technologie verandert
• Kosten gaan omlaag
• Altijd verbonden, mobiele toepassingen
• Tijd en plaats niet meer belangrijk
• Social Computing: LinkedIn, Facebook
• Jonge medewerkers eisen IT tools
• Informatie overload
10. Succesfactoren
• Rekening houden met globale trends bij het
vaststellen van de bedrijfsstrategie
• Mens+Kennis (de kenniswerker) is de kritische
‘productiefactor’
• Aantrekken en behouden van de juiste (beste)
mensen is cruciaal
• (Informatie) technologie is de belangrijkste
gereedschap van de kennisewerker
13. Een stukje geschiedenis
Tot de meest bekende en alom verspreide
volksgeneesmiddelen behoort zeker de beroemde
Haarlemmerolie. Dit product, een mengsel van kruiden en
zwavel, ook wel medicamentum gratia probatum genoemd, is
al meer dan 300 jaar wereldberoemd. Het heilzame middel
zou in 1696 zijn uitgevonden door Haarlemmer Claes Tilly.
Haarlemmerolie werd beschouwd als wondermiddel tegen
bijna alle toen bekende kwalen
14.
15.
16. SharePoint
Team Publiceren
Communiceren Delen
Samenwerken Centraal Informatie
Projecten Locatie
Sociaal Netwerk Zoeken
18. SharePoint Wiel
Business Connectivity Services Ribbon UI
InfoPath Form Services SharePoint Workspace
External Lists SharePoint Mobile
Workflow Office Client en Office Web App
SharePoint Designer Integration
Visual Studio
API Enhancements
REST/ATOM/RSS
Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings
Social Bookmarking
PerformancePoint Services Blogs en Wikis
Excel Services My Sites
Chart Web Part Activity Feeds
Visio Services Profiles en Expertise
Web Analytics Org anisatie Browser
SQL Server Integration
PowerPivot
Enterprise Content Types
Metadata en Navigation
Social Relevance Document Sets
Phonetic Search Multi-stage Disposition
Navigation Audio en Video Content Types
FAST Integration Remote Blob Storage
Enhanced Pipeline Uitbreidingen op lists
35. Uitdagingen voor SharePoint 2010
• Eilanden van informatie en applicaties
• Traag reageren op vraag organisatie en
medewekers
• Ontwikkeling en onderhoud applicaties te
duur
• Beperkt samenwerken, zowel intern als extern
• Moeilijk om juiste informatie en mensen te
vinden.
37. Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Business Connectivity Services Ribbon UI
InfoPath Form Services SharePoint Workspace
External Lists SharePoint Mobile
Workflow Office Client en Office Web App
SharePoint Designer Integration
Visual Studio
API Enhancements
REST/ATOM/RSS
Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings
Social Bookmarking
PerformancePoint Services Blogs en Wikis
Excel Services My Sites
Chart Web Part Activity Feeds
Visio Services Profiles en Expertise
Web Analytics Org anisatie Browser
SQL Server Integration
PowerPivot
Enterprise Content Types
Metadata en Navigation
Social Relevance Document Sets
Phonetic Search Multi-stage Disposition
Navigation Audio en Video Content Types
FAST Integration Remote Blob Storage
Enhanced Pipeline Uitbreidingen op lists
56. Hardware en Systeem Software
• 64-bit Architectuur
• Hardware en system software
• SharePoint Server 2010 alleen 64-bit
• SharePoint Server 2010 alleen op 64-bit Windows Server
2008 of 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
• SharePoint Server 2010 alleen op 64-bit SQL Server 2008
of 64-bit SQL Server 2005
58. Waarom upgrade SharePoint 2010
• Connect and empower people
• Gebruikersinterface
• Office integratie
• Overal toegang
• Gestandaardiseerde Infrastructuur
• Consolidatie
• IT standardisatie
• Snel reageren op veranderingen
• Sneller ontwikkelen
• Connectie van externe data
• Samengestelde oplossingen
59. Connect and empower people
• Gebruikersvriendelijk
• Integratie met Office
2010
• Cross-browser support
• Mobiel toegang
• Off-line toegang
60. Eenduidige Infrastructure
• Platform consolidatie
• IT Productiviteit
• Flexible uitrollen , on
premise of cloud
• Schaalbaar Extranet Internet
• Flexibele integratie met
externe databronnen
Intranet
61. Snel reageren op veranderingen
• R/W verbinding
met externe
databronnen
• Out-of-the-box
functionaliteit
• Self-service
• Web Parts
• Development tools
• Visual Studio 2010
• SharePoint
Designer 2010
71. Waarom aan de Wolk?
• Eenvoud, het werkt gewoon…..
• Beschikbaarheid
• Toegang (Anywhere, Anytime, Any device)
• Geen eigen IT resources
• Investering
• Onderhoud
• Lage investering, betaal voor gebruik
72. Waarom NIET aan de wolk
• MIJN gegevens
• Internetverbinding
• Snelheid
• Continuiteit
• Flexabiliteit
73. Gaan we aan de Wolk?
‘We always overestimate the change that will
occur in the next two years,
and underestimate the change that will occur in
the next ten.’
- Bill Gates
75. Microsoft’s oplossing
• Windows Azure
• Microsoft BPOS
• MS SharePoint Online
• MS Exchange Online
• MS Communications Online
• MS Office Live Meeting
Key MessagePresenter NotesThere are some headline elements for each of the SharePoint workloads:SitesRibbon UISharePoint WorkspaceSharePoint MobileOffice Client and Office Web App IntegrationStandards SupportCommunitiesTagging, Tag Cloud, RatingsSocial BookmarkingBlogs and WikisMy SitesActivity FeedsProfiles and ExpertiseOrganization BrowserContentEnterprise Content TypesMetadata and NavigationDocument SetsMulti-stage DispositionAudio and Video Content TypesRemote Blob StorageList EnhancementsSearchSocial RelevancePhonetic SearchNavigationFAST IntegrationEnhanced PipelineInsightsPerformancePoint ServicesExcel ServicesChart Web PartVisio ServicesWeb AnalyticsSQL Server IntegrationPowerPivotCompositesBusiness Connectivity ServicesInfoPath Form ServicesExternal ListsWorkflowSharePoint DesignerVisual StudioAPI EnhancementsREST/ATOM/RSSPresenter GuidanceThis is the first level of drill down. Keep the discussion high level. Reorder, add, or remove items as you feel necessary for your customer engagement.
Key MessageSharePoint 2010 offers solutions across a range of business issues. Office SharePoint Server 2007 is already a leader in multi-requirement deployments, and SharePoint 2010 is taking it to the next level, without losing any of the existing strengths.Presenter NotesMicrosoft SharePoint 2010 enables organizations to connect and empower people through an integrated set of rich features. SharePoint 2010 facilitates business collaboration in its broadest sense and helps colleagues, partners, and customers to work together in new and effective ways.The key business challenges it addresses are: Site delivery Collaboration through communities Content development and management Searching for content Providing usable insights into business data Providing a platform for business solution development by business users and professional developersPresenter GuidanceDon’t go into lots of detail here, as the presentation reviews each workload later on.
Key MessagePresenter NotesThere are some headline elements for each of the SharePoint workloads:SitesRibbon UISharePoint WorkspaceSharePoint MobileOffice Client and Office Web App IntegrationStandards SupportCommunitiesTagging, Tag Cloud, RatingsSocial BookmarkingBlogs and WikisMy SitesActivity FeedsProfiles and ExpertiseOrganization BrowserContentEnterprise Content TypesMetadata and NavigationDocument SetsMulti-stage DispositionAudio and Video Content TypesRemote Blob StorageList EnhancementsSearchSocial RelevancePhonetic SearchNavigationFAST IntegrationEnhanced PipelineInsightsPerformancePoint ServicesExcel ServicesChart Web PartVisio ServicesWeb AnalyticsSQL Server IntegrationPowerPivotCompositesBusiness Connectivity ServicesInfoPath Form ServicesExternal ListsWorkflowSharePoint DesignerVisual StudioAPI EnhancementsREST/ATOM/RSSPresenter GuidanceThis is the first level of drill down. Keep the discussion high level. Reorder, add, or remove items as you feel necessary for your customer engagement.
Key MessageCore to SharePoint 2010 is its ability to deliver easy to use, easy to customize, and easy to use Web sites for intranet, extranet, and Internet deployments.Presenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageSharePoint sites deliver business benefits because: They offer a rich user experience They make business information available to users irrespective of location, device, or browser Customers can save money on hardware, support skills, and development costsPresenter NotesUse the slides to list the benefits of SharePoint 2010 sites. Presenter GuidanceReorder, add, or remove items as you feel necessary for your customer engagement.
Key MessageSharePoint enables you to build business communities, both within your organization and with your partners and customers.Presenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageSharePoint communities deliver business benefits because: They offer the ability to manage the informal knowledge that is essential to business development They create a collaborative environment where users can work together naturally and build essential business relationships organically They use the power of sites to provide business access anytime, anywherePresenter NotesUse the slides to list the benefits of SharePoint 2010 communities.Additional NotesUsers can work together the way they want. The global workforce of the twenty-first century is more diverse than ever. Connect and engage all of your employees with a flexible collaboration platform and a diverse set of tools that range from Wikis to Workflows to Workspaces—allowing people to work together the way they want.You and your users can rely on security across your community environment. Let your IT staff rely on an enterprise-ready collaboration platform that is secure and easy to manage and will support your organization’s growing needs. SharePoint 2010 makes social safe with granular security and privacy controls, centralized management and policy setting, and robust reporting and analysis.Users can your business can extend the value of the community solutions. The SharePoint platform seamlessly integrates with the rest of the Microsoft Business Productivity infrastructure, including the Office applications, Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, SQL Server, and Dynamics. In addition, SharePoint provides Business Connectivity Services and adheres to open standards and protocols, making it easy to integrate third-party applications.Presenter GuidanceReorder, add, or remove items as you feel necessary for your customer engagement.
Key MessageSharePoint offers tools and business processes to create, publish, and manage your content. It can also integrate seamlessly with your Office environments, saving users time, and you money.Presenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageSharePoint 2010 builds on the SharePoint Server 2007 functionality to deliver the ability to create and distribute content. This provides a robust platform for content governance.Presenter NotesUse the slides to list the benefits of SharePoint 2010 content development and management.Additional NotesIncrease Productivity and Information ValueWith SharePoint 2010, content management is simple and intuitive, allowing employees to focus on higher value tasks. In addition, SharePoint 2010 provides co-authoring, metadata driven navigation, search refiners, and a rich social overlay to help people turn information into action.Drive Compliance and Reduce RiskSharePoint 2010 provides a single platform for managing content across the enterprise. By consistently applying metadata, retention schedules, record declarations, and legal holds, SharePoint 2010 can help to ensure that information is managed in accordance with policy and regulation. This can reduce the risk of incorrectly deleting relevant information or retaining information beyond its useful life.Consolidate Systems and Simplify IntegrationReducing the need to purchase multiple ECM solutions, SharePoint 2010 delivers the management of documents, records, Web content, rich media, and document output in an integrated, extensible platform. In addition, SharePoint 2010 is built on an open platform that supports interoperability standards like XML, SOAP, RSS, REST, WebDAV, and WSRP, which significantly reduces the cost of maintaining a heterogeneous environment.Presenter Guidance
Key MessageWhen you have lots of business content, it is essential that you can find what you are looking for. SharePoint 2010 offers flexible and extensible search functionality that will fit your business needs.Presenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageSharePoint 2010 offers unparalleled flexibility in providing different levels of search capabilities across you organization.Presenter NotesUse the slides to list the benefits of SharePoint 2010 communities.Additional NotesGo Beyond the Search BoxSharePoint 2010 moves beyond the traditional "10 blue links" and introduces a visual and interactive experience, allowing users to find, explore, and connect to information and people.Eliminate Compromise Between Manageability and CapabilitySharePoint 2010 offers an integrated solution that can tackle the most challenging enterprise search requirements while maintaining the out-of-box simplicity and consistency of a durable and secure platform. Do More with SearchSharePoint 2010 is a powerful platform for building custom search solutions and applications using common out-of-box tools.You can also:Get more relevant results through a search center with hit highlighting, results summaries, related queries, and enhanced query syntaxFind information faster with metadata-driven refinement, query suggestions, search scopes, and federated results which help pinpoint informationSearch from anywhere including mobile and desktop integration; Office Web Apps speed access to results; enhancements for multilingualConnect with expertise using recently authored content, user profile-based refinement, browse in organizational chartMine Social Data using SharePoint and Outlook integration to improve people and expertise searchFind people through nickname and phonetic matching, people specific refinement, tuned relevance modelsPresenter Guidance
Key MessageCore to SharePoint 2010 is its ability to deliver easy to use, easy to customize, and easy to use Web sites for intranet, extranet, and Internet deployments.Presenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageBusiness is all about making the right decisions. SharePoint 2010 provides the tolls and the interface to get the right information to the right people in the right format..Presenter NotesUse the slides to list the benefits of SharePoint 2010 business insights.Additional NotesEmpower Decision MakersEmpower users to collaborate better and make more agile business decisions by accessing the information they need, when they need it. With powerful self-service capabilities integrated into familiar tools, users can create and share the right information and drive the business forward by providing timely responses and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.Improve Organizational EffectivenessManage, drive, and define organizational success by aligning to key metrics and strategy through context-driven dashboards. Measure critical success factors and empower everyone to create and analyze the information necessary to stay informed and move the business forward. Enable accountability and transparency across the company and remove barriers to productivity.Enable IT EfficiencyUse a complete, integrated business collaboration platform that can empower users to discover, analyze, and share the right information across unstructured and structured assets. With a platform built on standards, IT can address business requirements by putting information in the hands of users and focusing on developing, maintaining, and securing systems.Key features are the extended services:Excel Services Excel Services makes it simple to use, share, secure, and manage Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks as interactive reports in a consistent way throughout the enterprise. Visio Services Visio Services in SharePoint 2010 provides the capability to render Visio diagrams and charts within the browser. Business users can use one of the existing out-of-the-box filter Web Parts to apply filtering criteria to a diagram to restrict what is and is not rendered. PerformancePoint Services, Dashboards and Scorecards PerformancePoint Services is a balanced scorecard and dynamic dashboard tool that allows power users/IT to create dynamic and highly interactive dashboards that display strategy to operations. Business Connectivity Services (BCS) BCS allows you to create SharePoint applications that bring external data into the Office system, extending the rich Office user experience and SharePoint collaboration capabilities to business data and processes. Presenter Guidance
Key MessageUsers create solutions to business problems. With SharePoint 2010 that process just became easier, and the solutions become more sophisticated.Presenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageSharePoint 2010 delivers tools and services that mean users can more readily develop the solutions that exactly fit your business. But SharePoint development does not stop there; your developers can use the familiar Visual Studio environment and SharePoint Designer 2010 to program business solutions.Presenter NotesUse the slides to list the benefits of SharePoint 2010 composites.Additional NotesRapidly Create No-Code Collaborative SolutionsEmpower business users to rapidly and easily address a broad array of business needs using the browser, or to share their Office Access databases and Office Visio diagrams with others, while allowing advanced users to customize SharePoint with no-code tools in SharePoint Designer and Office InfoPath.Unlock the Value of Enterprise DataAllow your organization to interact with enterprise data directly within the SharePoint and Office experience, in both read and write modes. Users are able to work with enterprise data as easily as with SharePoint data, either offline or connected, or directly in the rich experience of Microsoft Office.Maintain Control over End User SolutionsIT professionals can manage user solutions and define resource throttling controls on resource consumption on your server infrastructure, letting SharePoint take care of ensuring that solutions stay within your predefined limits. This allows them to maintain operational insight and a stable platform, whether online or on-premises.Additional Services include:Visio Services Leverage the most popular diagramming tool in the world, Visio, directly on SharePoint. Share and publish your diagrams to SharePoint to create custom dashboards that connect to your data and can be refreshed in real-time. Access Services Publish your Access databases to SharePoint to share them with others. With Access Services you will be able to eliminate database versioning problems and simplify the deployment of Access forms and reports to other users, while simplifying management of these databases. Business Connectivity Services With Business Connectivity Services, or BCS, you can extend the reach of your enterprise data to everybody in the organization. Enable users to read and write back to these external data sources as easily as with SharePoint lists, and allow them to interact with this data even when offline using Outlook, Word or SharePoint Workspace. Creating external content types that connect to these external data sources can be accomplished very easily and without code directly using SharePoint Designer 2010. Presenter GuidanceWe are getting very used to the word “composites” in SharePoint presentations. Make sure that your audience understand what it means.
Key MessageSharePoint is a business platform, but that does not mean it doesn’t have a great story for your IT department.Presenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageSharePoint is easy to deploy and manage.Presenter NotesIncreased ProductivitySharePoint 2010 can help to increase IT professionals' productivity by improving the administrative experience and giving administrators deeper operational insight. Features include a new streamlined Central Administration Web site, new capabilities to manage and monitor the SharePoint farm, and Windows PowerShell support. Scalable Unified InfrastructureSharePoint 2010 provides a scalable unified infrastructure. It offers better control over server resources, which can improve processes such as performance and management of large lists and data management and protection using high availability. A scalable services architecture allows you to effectively manage and centralize services like Search, My Sites, and Taxonomy. These service applications can be managed through Central Administration and also can be managed and scripted by Windows PowerShell. Because the architecture is extensible, third-party companies can build and add services to platform.Flexible DeploymentWith a quick and simple installation and configuration process, SharePoint 2010 provides a flexible deployment experience. The upgrade from SharePoint 2007 is smooth and predictable. New functionality allows you to manage how others use SharePoint. For example, you can safely allow site administrators to upload custom user code with Sandboxed Solutions. You also have more governance controls: If you want to maintain a centralized SharePoint deployment instead of taking a more decentralized approach, you can block those deployments through Group Policy or track them with AD marker support.Additional NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageSharePoint offers a great development platform – for intranet and Internet facing sites.Presenter NotesDeveloper ProductivitySoftware developers can increase productivity with Visual Studio 2010 and the new SharePoint Designer 2010. SharePoint 2010 can be installed on Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows Vista for development purposes. With SharePoint 2010, software developers get a rich set of resources, including SDK documentation and product features such as the developer dashboard page.Rich Platform ServicesSharePoint 2010 provides new features for building business collaboration applications, including Silverlight hosting for user interfaces, LINQ to SharePoint, Client Object Model, BCS, data relationships, and large list scalability. Using BCS, developers now can integrate line-of-business data in SharePoint and Office Client solutions easily and with read/write capability.Flexible DeploymentDevelopers can build Sandboxed Solutions to be deployed on-premises or online, with built-in API limits and resource governance for administrators. In SharePoint 2010, new Sandboxed Solutions can be deployed to a corporate intranet or to a shared hosting environment, such as SharePoint Online.Additional NotesPresenter Guidance
Key MessageAll of this is available in a single packagePresenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Hardware and System SoftwarePlan for upgrading 32-bit hardware that is currently running SharePoint 2007 to 64-bit hardware. SharePoint 2010 will only be available in a 64-bit version. Plan for upgrading 32-bit hardware that is currently running SQL Server for SharePoint 2007 storage. SharePoint 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005. Plan for upgrading your Windows Server Operating System to Windows Server 2008 64-bit or above. SharePoint 2010 will require Windows Server 2008 64-bit or above. Deploy Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 and Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Server 2007. Service Pack 2 is a requirement for upgrading SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Consider your desktop browser strategy if you have a large population of Internet Explorer 6 users. Internet Explorer 6 will not be a supported browser for SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 will support a broader range of standards based browsers such as Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and FireFox 3.x. Development PlatformPlan for upgrading SharePoint development environments to 64 bit. The Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS), version 1.3 support 64 bit development, debugging and deployment to SharePoint Server 2007 today.Consider packaging all custom code that you deploy to SharePoint as SharePoint Solutions in WSP files. SharePoint 2010 has new technology that makes this solution deployment format more valuable. You can read about the SharePoint Solution format.Microsoft recommends Visual Studio 2008 for SharePoint Server 2007 development and Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 development. There will be two types of upgrade provided for projects. Visual Studio 2008 SharePoint Workflow projects will be upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 and continue to work in SharePoint Server 2007. Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) projects will be upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 and in the process will be migrated to SharePoint 2010 projects.Many of your SharePoint 2007 applications will work in SharePoint 2010. In specific cases where Microsoft deprecates an API, it will be providing detailed written guidance for developers on how to upgrade custom code, and any deprecated API’s will issue warnings on compile with recommendations for changes.
Key MessageIt is important to plan your upgrade to take advantage of the business productivity benefits of SharePoint 2010.Presenter NotesPresenter Guidance
Connect and Empower PeopleMaking people more productive is a direct result of enabling them to access resources and knowledge regardless of where they are and what device they use, through a user experience optimized for usability and adoption.User InterfaceTo allow people to interact with SharePoint’s rich set of integrated capabilities in an easy and intuitive way, the Office Ribbon UI has been implemented in SharePoint, providing users with a familiar and contextual experience that drives their productivity even further. This user experience is enhanced by additional technologies that boost usability and by the ability of all users to easily edit and publish SharePoint sites.Office Integration Microsoft Office is, by far, the most commonly used business productivity software in the world. Office has always been about automating tasks and providing people with choices in how they get things done. Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 provide users with a seamless integration of capabilities that span across Client and Server, often without users even realizing that both are involved.Anywhere Access Mobile work isn’t just for the sales force anymore. Today, most businesses support telecommuting, and they expect employees to be “always on, always connected,” even when they are away from the office. SharePoint 2010 offers a diverse set of capabilities that extends people’s access to resources and allows them to be productive regardless of the tools or devices they have available.Cut costs with a Unified InfrastructureDriving cost efficiencies and accomplishing more with the same resources is possible through the consolidation of all the key business collaboration solutions into SharePoint 2010 and using this common platform to deploy solutions for your intranet, extranet, or for your Internet web presence. Platform ConsolidationThe rich set of integrated capabilities for business collaboration provided by SharePoint 2010, in addition to its enterprise-scale manageability, will enable more customers to retire niche solutions and focus new solutions on SharePoint. This will accelerate their ability to drive efficiencies, allowing IT departments to achieve more impact with the same resources.Deployment ChoiceNowadays, IT is required to support scale agility, allowing its business collaboration platform to be scaled up and out quickly, based on changing business needs. SharePoint 2010 provides IT with the flexibility of choosing whether to deploy on-premises or in the cloud, thus enhancing its ability to support any given scenario while optimizing resources and remaining relevant and efficient.IT ProductivityWith business collaboration and productivity becoming instrumental to success, IT departments are required to do more with no additional resources. With SharePoint 2010, robust management tools enable IT to multiply its impact and achieve a higher degree of effectiveness with the same resources.Rapidly Respond to Business NeedsWhen time-to-market is key, SharePoint 2010 enables people to customize the out-of-box platform and deploy solutions that enable them to address specific business requirements quickly and in a secure manner. Developer Productivity In alignment with SharePoint’s approach of doing more with no additional resources, investments like integration with Visual Studio 2010 will enable customers to rely on existing programming expertise to enrich the SharePoint platform and increase the quality and ROI on their investments.Data Connectivity A major advancement in SharePoint is allowing users, regardless of their technical expertise, to interact with line-of-business data, surface it in their SharePoint sites, analyze it, and make updates to be reflected in the external data source itself, such as ERP and CRM systems.Composite SolutionsEnabling users to address specific business and collaboration needs, while relieving IT from the need to be involved all changes to the platform, is made possible through a rich set of tools and features that allow users to create no-code solutions and to deploy those solutions in an easy and secure manner.
Great User Experience - With SharePoint 2010 users are able to quickly and easily find and use relevant features with a new contextual ribbon and breadcrumb navigation, preview edits and additions as changes are made, select and action against multiple files at once, and add user ratings to any document.Office Suite Integration – When an external content type has been used to create a BCS connection, external data will be visible in SharePoint lists. Office Word 2010 and Outlook 2010 can use this data to populate templates and generate mail shot letters and other document types.Offline Interaction - With SharePoint Workspace users can take a Team Site or a single library offline with just one click. Users are given full read / write capabilities, can edit metadata, and can even take line-of-business data offline using SharePoint 2010’s virtual lists. With SharePoint 2010 only deltas are transmitted for update, speeding experiences for remote and low bandwidth activities.Access Services – enables users to present Access solutions through their Web browser. For IT staff, it means that Access business solutions can be managed and shared across the organization.Excel Services – Enhanced Excel Calculation Services provides a familiar environment for workbook collaboration through online data visualization and an extensible API.Visio Services – Presents data-driven Visio diagrams through Web browsers, enabling users to share Visio applications across the Web.Web Apps – Web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will bring familiar office productivity tools to you Web browser users, increasing Self-Service – SharePoint 2010 empowers users to create and publish content across intranets, extranets, and the internet with minimal IT involvement, saving staff valuable time and dollars. SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 also allow users to specify and assemble a set of steps, conditions, and actions that fit together to form a sequential workflow by simply through the SharePoint 2010 contextual ribbon.Mobile Usability – All SharePoint lists and document libraries include, by default, views for mobile users that work on small screens. Mobile document viewers for Word, Excel and PowerPoint let users see the latest documents in libraries. Business Connectivity Services data is automatically available to mobile users for read and write operations and administrators can configure SharePoint alerts through SMS messages. Cross-browser support, includes Safari and Firefox as Tier 1 clients.Offline Usability – SharePoint Workspaces enable users to take documents and items offline so they can make changes outside the office and when no Internet connection is available. Any changes are automatically synchronized the next time the user connects to the SharePoint server. This offline editing can be used on SharePoint data and external BCS data.
Total Cost of Ownership:Minimize initial costsOn-going cost managementAvailability of competitively prices applications and supportReduced training costsReduced Hardware – the single platform use by SharePoint 2010 means that you can standardize operating environments, saving not only capital expense, but also on-going maintenance costs.Central Administration Site – Central site for managing all the features of Internet, extranet, and intranet sites. This offers the Ribbon UI and contextual menus that focus on the task that administrators need.Reporting – SharePoint 2010 delivers enhanced reporting and Web analytics, so that it is easier for you to monitor and report on your SharePoint environment, and helping you to identify trends in Web traffic and search utilization.Enterprise Management Operations - SharePoint 2010 features a new web analytics service and offers a full complement of management tools and reports, including a suite of site and usage reports, a developer dashboard to monitor performance of pages and web parts, and a customizable monitoring and alerts based on log and event activity.Reduced Training – The Office-based SharePoint interface and the consistent platform means that you can reduce the costs of training, and enjoy productivity and efficiency saving quickly.Scalability - SharePoint 2010 can include tens of millions of items in a single library, up to a million items per folder, and includes configurable, automatic query throttling to manage IO resources. Archive deposits are intelligently routed and stored based on metadata, eliminating user’s need to identify exact folder locations. Document Repository Integration – Microsoft has worked with the ECM ecosystem to drive rich integration with Documentum, OpenText, Meridio, and TRIM. Additional integration is provided through the External Storage API.SharePoint also integrates with SAP, Siebel, Oracle, and MS-CRM.Workflow Events – SharePoint 2010 extends your workflow options and capabilities, by providing pluggable services. This means you that you can take your workflows beyond SharePoint, so that can deploy workflows that can interact and integrate with external systems such as SAP, CRM, and custom applications.
Business Connectivity Services Capabilities – Presentation: Extend Office and SharePoint‘s UX and capabilities to External Data and ProcessesConnectivity: Read-Write capable connectivity from client and server to Databases, WCF/WebServices and .NET sourcesTooling: Integrated tooling experience scales from simple solutions to advanced Pro-Dev appsLifecycle Management: Automated solution packaging, deployment and management Line-of-Business Integration - SharePoint 2010’s integration with line-of-business systems allows full read / write capabilities to backend systems and tools. With SharePoint 2010’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS), external content types can be used for data model integration across disparate systems. BCS based applications can run in a range of clients, including Microsoft Word, Outlook, and InfoPath.Out-of-the-Box Web Parts - SharePoint 2010 offers users a wide array of useful out-of-the-box web parts, including calendar, tasks, lists, and links. Users are able to easily add web parts anywhere within an intranet and / or extranet site using simple point and click functionality.REST - Representational state transfer (REST) makes SharePoint 2010 more efficient in server and network resource usage. The client is either in a RESTful (passive) or application (active) state. When RESTful it does not consume any server processor/memory or network bandwidth. This is particularly useful for heavy or remote usage deploymentsCross-platform configurable security – SharePoint 2010 enables you to deliver security through Business Connectivity Services. This means that even backend systems data maintains its default level of security.