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A Business Perspective on Building SharePoint 2013 Solutions on Windows Azure
1.
2.
3. Christian Buckley,
Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler
• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server
• Prior to Axceler, worked for Microsoft, part of the Microsoft
Managed Services team (now Office365-Dedicated) and worked
as a consultant in the areas of software, supply chain, grid
technology, and collaboration
• Co-founded and sold a software company to Rational Software.
At E2open, helped design, build, and deploy a SharePoint-like
collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager), onboarding
numerous high-tech manufacturing companies, including
Hitachi, Matsushita, Cisco, and Seagate
• Co-authored ‘Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and
Implementing Real-World Projects’ link (MS Press, March 2012)
and 3 books on software configuration management.
• Twitter: @buckleyplanet Blog: buckleyplanet.com Email: cbuck@axceler.com
4. Published 2012 by Microsoft Press
Order your copy at http://oreil.ly/qC4loT
Tackle 10 common business problems with
proven SharePoint solutions:
• Set up a help desk solution to track service requests
• Build a modest project management system
• Design a scheduling system to manage resources
• Create a site to support geographically dispersed teams
• Implement a course registration system
• 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
• Implement a cost-effective contact management system
5. Improving Collaboration since 2007
• Mission: To enable enterprises to simplify, optimize, and
secure their collaborative platforms
• Delivered award-winning administration and migration
software since 1994, for SharePoint since 2007
• Over 3,000 global customers
Dramatically improve the management
of SharePoint
• Innovative products that improve security, scalability,
reliability, “deployability”
• Making IT more effective and efficient and lower the total
cost of ownership
Focus on solving specific SharePoint
problems (Administration & Migration)
• Coach enterprises on SharePoint best practices
• Give administrators the most innovative tools available
• Anticipate customers’ needs
• Deliver best of breed offerings
• Stay in lock step with SharePoint development and market trends
6. What is a business guy doing presenting to a
group of developers on the topic of Azure?
• Degree in marketing
• Not a dev
• PM / BA background
• All slideware, all the time
• Definitely not a dev
7.
8. At the Microsoft Worldwide
Partner Conference (WPC) in
Toronto in July 2012, Kurt
DelBene, President of the
Microsoft Office Division
announced that Office
365, including SharePoint
Online, is growing at over 8x
their predictions, and is likely to
eclipse SharePoint as the fastest
growing Microsoft offer ever.
9. During his keynote presentation
at SPTechCon in February
2012, Jared Spataro, Director of
SharePoint at
Microsoft, announced that
SharePoint 2013 was being
developed using a “Cloud First”
strategy, and that Office 365
customers could expect to have
access to the benefits of the new
release sooner than on-premises
deployments.
10. Growth of enterprise
spending on cloud in 2012
Total spend last year
Expected growth of enterprise
spending on cloud in 2013
Spend expected this year
11. As SharePoint continues to expand its
footprint, companies are demanding flexible
architectures to help them better meet internal and
external collaboration needs
• Reducing costs
• Reducing headcount
• Doing more with less
• Focusing less on traditional IT activities and more on
activities that will help drive the business forward
46. Developers are testing
the waters, but still
tentative on the model
Analysts agree
that adoption is
slower than
expected
47. Where Azure
succeeds:
Platform is comprehensive
Supports all of the mechanisms to build
internet-scale, enterprise (and
consumer) applications
Leverages existing .NET skills
Azure SDK ships with .NET-compatible
wrapper to make migrating to Azure
“natural” for the MS-savvy stack
developer
Azure Service Bus can be used to call
back into on-prem code
48.
49. What partners can do:
Think of apps as stateless entities
that can scale horizontally, and
gracefully degrade under error
conditions
Understand that distance and
geography matter among servers
and processes
Understand the different security
requirements and models at play in
the cloud, and that they are
necessarily different than those for
on-prem
50. The future of Azure
Expanded capabilities Reduced cost as the
along the infrastructure is leveraged
mobile, media, phone across more applications
route
Auto-scaling and
More robust features in auto-provisioning
the queuing and
messaging systems to A Skynet-like intelligence that
more closely match will result in nuclear holocaust
legacy products like when the system finally
MSMQ becomes self-aware