A combination of materials from various presentations to give a business user perspective to what is available in SharePoint 2013.

2. What I’ll cover today:
•
SharePoint 2013 themes and their impacts
•
Importance of focusing on improving productivity
and overall collaboration
•
SP2013 features that can help you achieve
improved collaboration and team communication
•
How to approach the move to SP2013

3. Christian Buckley, Director, Product Evangelism at Metalogix
• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server
• Most recently at Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed Services
team (now Office365-Dedicated) and then Advertising Operations
• Prior to Microsoft, was a senior consultant, working in the software,
supply chain, and grid technology spaces focusing on collaboration
• Co-founded and sold a collaboration software company to Rational
Software. At another startup (E2open), helped design, build, and deploy
a SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager),
onboarding numerous high-tech manufacturing companies, including
Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), 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@metalogix.com

4. Published 2012 by Microsoft Press
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Tackle 10 common business problems with
proven SharePoint solutions:
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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. Business Problems
• Adoption issues
• Weak usage of taxonomy
and templates
• Poor collaboration
• Slow to realize
benefits of
SharePoint
investments

6. The most challenging part of any
SharePoint deployment is figuring
out
how to help users to be productive
once they are on the platform

7. (depth)
(loyalty)
(inspiration)
(value)

9. WCM

10. Office

11. Search

12. Social

13. Online
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14. rd
e cloud
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.

15. n the cloud
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.

16. 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

17. 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

19. • To simplify the interface into SharePoint
• To better align end user activities with the
needs of the business
• To better streamline business processes
• To get more out of SharePoint

20. • Faster employee on-boarding
and training
• More business output
• More usage of the platform
• Faster realization of the financial
investments you’ve made in SharePoint

21. Getting the most out
of SharePoint 2013
(out of the box)

22. Drag and Drop

25. Drag and Drop
My Tasks

27. Drag and Drop
My Tasks
Outlook Integration

29. Drag and Drop
My Tasks
Outlook Integration
Rollups / Aggregation Capability

31. Drag and Drop
My Tasks
Outlook Integration
Rollups / Aggregation Capability
Activity Feeds

33. Drag and Drop
My Tasks
Outlook Integration
Rollups / Aggregation Capability
Activity Feeds
Projects and Deadlines

36. Drag and Drop
My Tasks
Outlook Integration
Rollups / Aggregation Capability
Activity Feeds
Projects and Deadlines
Simplified Sharing

38. Drag and Drop
My Tasks
Outlook Integration
Rollups / Aggregation Capability
Activity Feeds
Projects and Deadlines
Simplified Sharing
The App Model

40. Drag and Drop
My Tasks
Outlook Integration
Rollups / Aggregation Capability
Activity Feeds
Projects and Deadlines
Simplified Sharing
The App Model
Advanced Search

42. Drag and Drop
My Tasks
Outlook Integration
Rollups / Aggregation Capability
Activity Feeds
Projects and Deadlines
Simplified Sharing
The App Model
Advanced Search
Embedded Social Experiences

47. The Yammer
Question

53. Why companies will move
to SharePoint 2013

54. When more people participate
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•
•
•
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Improves collaboration
Improves individual motivation
Speeds up learning process
Improves system/content analytics
Drives brand awareness

55. This shows that successful platforms need to drive that
first round of comments – engage the most passionate
people out there.

56. The value of social is its ability
to reach business goals by
• driving engagement
• improving collaboration
• instilling a sense
of community

57. AOL took a conjoint approach to understand the DNA of comments
within their sites. They looked at:
• fact based comments
• clarity of thought
• original article criticism
• name (full name, nicknames, anonymous)
• icon (author picture, avatar)
• adherence to party lines
• grammar
AOL’s analysis showed what people cared about:
• style -- 7% (not very important)
• individual substance - 14% mildly important
• community involvement -- 19% somewhat important
• personal identity --- 19% somewhat important
• relationship to content - 42% very important

58. How you move
forward with social
depends on what
you are trying to
achieve

59. •
Social has become a company strategy
•
Publishing to multiple formats (intranet,
extranet, internet, mobile, tablet) because of an
increasingly mobile workforce, geographically
dispersed
•
End user adoption (tighter integration with
Office) and usability improvements
•
Improved search and business intelligence,
whether data is on prem or in the cloud

60. How to move forward:
•
Understand your organization’s
cultural capacity for social
•
Experiment with the technology,
monitor and measure the results,
focusing on end user adoption
and engagement
•
Closely align your SharePoint
activities with your business
objectives
•
Extend features as the business
is ready for them

61. The future of SharePoint + Social

63. Christian Buckley
cbuck@metalogix.com
+1 425-246-2823
@buckleyPLANET
www.buckleyPLANET.com
and www.metalogix.com
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