SharePoint is a Microsoft platform that has evolved from a centralized way to search for information and enhance collaboration into a powerful platform for enterprise content management. The document discusses SharePoint's history and capabilities. It also describes AIIM's new SharePoint certification program, which provides best practices for implementing, sustaining, and transitioning to SharePoint through online and classroom courses to become a SharePoint Practitioner, Specialist, or Master.

1. SharePoint: The Changing Face of Technology

2. SharePoint Adoption Source: AIIM Industry Watch SharePoint –Strategies and Experiences SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

3. Always there Web-based workspace Integration with Office Easy, flexible deployment Extensible platform SharePoint Then SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

4. Enhanced Collaboration A centralized way to search for relevant information Integration into the work environment A better intranet SharePoint Now SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

5. How it is Used Source: AIIM Industry Watch SharePoint –Strategies and Experiences SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

6. Organizational Challenges Source: AIIM Industry Watch SharePoint –Strategies and Experiences SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

7. The Need for Best Practices "There is so much heat and so little light out there about exactly what SharePoint does and how it does it. We hear from many SharePoint users who thought they were buying an application (i.e., process automation ready to roll right out of the box), only to find they were really buying a platform (i.e., a powerful ECM platform, but requiring customization and integration). There is a critical need for SharePoint implementation best practices so that users can make platform decisions with the 'lights on.'" SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

8. AIIM: The Place to Learn The new AIIM SharePoint Certificate Program developed with Gimmal Group, is designed from global best practices among our 65,000 strong community Skill sets and best practices are identified by Education Advisory Groups in North America and Europe Microsoft reviewed the program to ensure accuracy when describing possibilities with SharePoint 2010 Don't get left behind, - join the AIIM community of experts by becoming an AIIM Practitioner, Specialist or Master. SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

9. Program Structure Why? How? What? Use? SharePoint Practitioner SharePoint Specialist SharePoint Strategy Case Study The Practitioner and Specialist programs are available as both online and classroom courses The Strategy and Master programs are only available as classroom courses SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

10. SharePoint Practitioner Product Design Elements Function Infrastructure Core Capabilities Records Center Document Libraries Imaging & Capture Report Management Forms Design WCM / Sites Workflow and BPM Email Management SharePoint and Microsoft Office Integration Architecture Content Types Classification Governance Search Components and Parts Site Provisioning Workflow Admin and Maintenance Communities SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

11. SharePoint Specialist Implement Sustain Transition Assess Change Management Customization Documenting Requirements Information Gathering Strategy Integration Records Management Test, Train, Sustain Migration Business Case Governance SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

12. Includes SharePoint Practitioner SharePoint Specialist Practical Case Application 24/7 access to online Practitioner and Specialist materials SharePoint Master SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

13. Online at www.aiim.org/sp Practitioner and Specialist 24/7 Access Master Instructor-led Classrooms Schedules and international locations found at www.aiim.org/sp Course Availability SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

14. What Others are Saying "Often I have watched enterprises use chaos and complexity theory for the deployment of their SharePoint applications. The goal seems to be throw it out there, see if it sticks, and if it does, then let it self-organize. This may work very well for certain microbial colonies or ant colonies, but humans need guidance and direction. The new AIIM SharePoint Certificate Program provides the vision and roadmap to organize a SharePoint deployment around total efficacy. Without a knowledge of both best and worst practices, a SP administrator or project manager would have to spend months, possibly years trying to figure out a workable and successful strategy. This new program shortens the critical learning cycle and increases the immediate business value proposition for the enterprises in using SharePoint.” Michael Sutton, PhD., Assoc. Professor of Knowledge Mobilization Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

15. Your Time to Act Join the AIIM community of experts Become a SharePoint Practitioner, Specialist or Master Understand market trends and opportunities Identify and demonstrate the business benefits of starting new projects Ensure progress by linking business strategy with a new vision and ways of working Understand global best practices for managing information assets Be recognized as an industry expert! Be an AIIM Designated SharePoint Practitioner, Specialist or Master! SharePoint is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft

16. Questions? Visit aiim.org/sp To locate a classroom course near you Sign up for an online course – available 24-7 for 6 months Ask AIIM can deliver an in-house class for your organization by emailing training@aiim.org