The document outlines 15 reasons to continue using SharePoint 2010, emphasizing its effectiveness in tackling common business problems and enhancing enterprise content management. It highlights key features such as social functionalities, project sites, document libraries, and governance tools, all contributing to its success in the market. Despite the push for newer versions, many organizations still find value in maintaining and optimizing their existing SharePoint 2010 deployments.

1. 15 Reasons
You Should Still Be Using
SharePoint 2010
CHRISTIAN BUCKLEY
@METALOGIX

2. Christian Buckley
Chief Evangelist & SharePoint MVP
Metalogix
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@buckleyplanet
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• Build a modest project management system
• Design a scheduling system to manage resources
• Create a site to support geographically dispersed teams
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• Build a learning center with training classes and resources
• Design a team blog platform to review content
• Create a process to coordinate RFP responses
• Set up a FAQ system to help users find answers quickly
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9. 2010 was SharePoint’s tipping
point in the market. Its focus on
core ECM features helped make
this release massively successful.

10. • Key social features
• Community
• Document libraries
• Lists
• Aggregation of enterprise data
• Project sites and personal space
Why SharePoint 2010 works

11. According to AIIM.org research
 57% of organizations use SharePoint
for ECM/DM
 31% consider it to be their main/only
ECM/DM system
 38% are supporting 2 or more live
versions (production systems)
 21% of large organizations supporting
3 or more (primarily due to struggles
with the upgrade process)
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12. According to AIIM.org research
 The biggest ongoing issues for
SharePoint are:
User adoption
Extending the business scope
Governance
Achieving uniformity of
classification and metadata
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13. According to AIIM.org research
 45% of survey respondent planned to move
to SharePoint 2013 by mid-2014
 This leaves a huge install base of 2010, many
of which are “waiting to see” what is in the
next version in late 2015
 Anecdotal evidence shows that most 2003
and 2007 customers are moving directly to
2013 or Office365 using 3rd party solutions
rather than “double-hop”
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15. There is no shame in
sticking with your
current platform until
you’ve paid for your
existing investments.
The key to success is to
understand what is possible
with what you already have.

17. Sandbox Solutions can be
executed in the context of a
User Code Service that provide
Admins the ability to monitor
and meter solution resource
consumption to protect the farm
from misbehaving code.

19. Noteboard is a micro-
blog where users can
post short notes on
MySites and aggregate
the notes of colleagues
they are following.

20. Social Tagging allows end
users to provide context to
content through use of “I
Like It”, comments, ratings
and keyword tagging.

21. Blogs got a major facelift, including the addition
of comments, ratings, and the ability to present
calendar-based archives of older posts.

22. Enterprise Wiki was a new repository site template that
added a number of features to the standard Wiki page
including the ability to insert reusable content
blocks, and customized page layouts.

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Access Services. Building on the successful Excel Services
pattern, SPS 2010 allows users to publish Access applications
to SharePoint which other users can access through their
browsers. While more limited than the desktop versions, it
offers server-side capabilities such as scalability, one
centralized version of the document (browser-friendly
format), and access to multiple users and security control.

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Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
In MOSS 2007, Business Data Connector (BDC) was the tool of choice for
integrating external data sources into SharePoint. BDC was available only to
customers who purchased the enterprise version of MOSS 2007.
Furthermore, BDC was limited to only reading data from the external data
sources.
Business Connectivity Services (BCS), which replaces the BDC functionality in SPS
2010, goes much further. It now supports updating, deletion and insertion of data
into an external data source. Another key advantage of BCS is that it will enable
SharePoint Lists to be created directly based on a database table.

28. Validation Rules can now be defined on fields
and are applied at the object model, not the
user interface level. Items created through
code, script or the user interface can now have
multi-field validation applied consistently.
Multiple records repositories within a single
SharePoint installation. Users can route records
to multiple repositories. Records managers can
define routing rules to aid in classification.
Records repositories now support the use of
hierarchical structures for storing records in a
manner that matches the customer’s
organizational hierarchy.
Ability to declare records in-place, i.e., allow
any document inside a document library to be
marked as a record without the need to
explicitly move it to a records repository.
Default Values are self describing and provide
the ability to define intelligent default values on
content items. Default values can also be
location-aware, allowing default values to be
defined down to the folder level.
Defining and applying retention rules.
For instance, apply a recurring retention
rule that specifies several stages
of retention. Can now specify a
retention rule such as “Maintain this
document for three years after project
completion then transfer it to the
archive for the next five years”.

30. Faceted Search provides refiners that allow
users to add additional filters to search
results, configured based on
metadata, user context, location, and time
periods.
People Search Results have
been improved, with results
now appearing in a business
card format.

31. Organizational Charts use a
Silverlight control available through
MySites. Provides a sleek UI for
team profiles, but highlights the
need to build out user profiles.

32. “Ask Me About” web part that helps
users in your organization find answers
and experts, but requires you to build
out user profiles.

34. Office Web Applications
are web-based extensions,
allowing multi-user
authoring and real-time
collaboration. An extension
to the desktop experience,
not a replacement.

36. Document Sets are like
folders that contain multiple
documents or files, allowing
you to apply metadata and
rules to the set of
documents, as well as to
each individual item inside.
They enable an organization
to manage a single
deliverable, or work
product, rather than
needing to juggle several
separate documents or files.

38. PowerPivot
Microsoft SQL Server
PowerPivot for
SharePoint extends
SharePoint 2010 and
Excel Services to add
server-side
processing, collaboration
, and document
management support for
the PowerPivot
workbooks that you
publish to SharePoint.

42. Conditional Routing is metadata
routing and storage by using Content
Organizer. Content Organizer builds
upon document routing features that
were introduced in the Records Center
site template in SharePoint 2007.
Instead of directly uploading a
document to a library or folder, users
can save, route, and automatically
apply rules to a document.

45. The Asset Library in SharePoint Server 2010 enables users to easily
create, discover and reuse existing digital assets within the
organization. It is a SharePoint Server 2010 library template that is
customized to use content types designed specifically for storing and
cataloging rich media assets.

47. Aggregated Calendars allow teams to keep multiple calendars (up to 10) in sync
by creating layers, allowing end users to see color-coded activities. Users can
then sync calendars to Outlook, comparing their personal calendar side-by-side.

49. SharePoint Workspaces
provide direct bi-directional
synchronization of library
and list content between a
SharePoint site and a
workspace on an individual
client computer. Allows
individual SharePoint users
to check out and check in
SharePoint library
documents from their local
computers, bring
SharePoint documents and
lists to their computers
where they can work online
or offline, and synchronize
local content with a
SharePoint site.

52. Where the majority of
SharePoint deployments
fail are around the soft
topics:
people, planning, govern
ance.

54. Thank you!
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