The document provides an extensive overview of SharePoint, detailing its features such as business connectivity services, collaborative tools, content management, and integration capabilities. It discusses the evolution of SharePoint from 2010, highlighting its growing complexity and the challenges organizations face in managing SharePoint as a critical enterprise application. Additionally, it addresses the need for effective integration with existing technologies and the importance of managing SharePoint sprawl across multiple farms and site collections.

6. What is SharePoint?
Ribbon UI
Business Connectivity Services SharePoint Workspace
InfoPath® Form Services SharePoint Mobile
Access Services Office Client and Office Web App Integration
External Lists Standards Support
Workflow
SharePoint Designer
Visual Studio
API Enhancements Composites Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings
REST/ATOM/RSS/AJAX/Silverlight Social Bookmarking
Blogs and Wikis
My Sites
Activity Feeds
PerformancePoint™ Services Profiles and Expertise
Microsoft Excel® Services Org Browser
Chart Web Part
Microsoft Visio® Services
Web Analytics
Microsoft SQL Server® Enterprise Content Types
Integration
Metadata and Navigation
PowerPivot
Document Sets
Multi-stage Disposition
Social Relevance Audio and Video Content Types
Phonetic Search Remote Blob Storage
Navigation List Enhancements
FAST Integration
Enhanced Pipeline

7. SharePoint Evolution (From 2010)
End User Composites
Application & RAD
On Premise Cloud
Intranet Internet
Oriented Facing

11. SharePoint in the Real World
Many customers still using SharePoint as a glorified file share
SharePoint has become more complex for end users and IT alike as
we’ve added more features
Business groups driving IT to move faster & only deliver what they
need (e.g. “I just want social”)
Customers often already own multiple competing technologies &
need to understand how/when to integrate and consolidate
E.g. ECM, WCM, Search, BI, OCS, Java
Also need to think of how SharePoint fits in at an organizational level –
such as enterprise records management & eDiscovery
Organizations don’t always view SharePoint as an enterprise service or
application
That perception is changing & SharePoint is becoming “too big to fail” in
some organizations and mission critical like Exchange
Customers often have multiple SharePoint farms & site collections
People are afraid of SharePoint sprawl like Lotus Notes & Access
Many companies still on older versions of other products such as
Windows XP, IE 6, Office 2007
Tide appears to be turning with Windows 7 & Office 2010, especially for people that
decided to skip Windows Vista & Office 2007

18. Enterprise Search

19. 5. Crawl, Walk, Run With SharePoint

20. Crawl
Go after the low hanging fruit

21. Walk
LOB Applications & Project 10+
Internally – SharePoint portal & “surround”
strategy
Enterprise search – other content stores, federation
Records Management
SharePoint Composite Applications, Custom Workflows &
BI
2007 – SharePoint Designer, Forms Services, Excel Services,
Business Data Catalog
2010 – Word Services, Access Services, Visio Services,
PerformancePoint Services, Business Connectivity Services
User solutions, process automation/standardization, going
green, human workflow
Extranet Collaboration Sites – Customers, Partners, Boards,
Mergers, Acquisitions
Web Content Management – Internal Sites

22. Run
Enterprise Applications
Web Content Management – Internet Sites
External commerce site integration (e.g.
.NET apps, FAST, Commerce Server, etc.)
Custom SharePoint .NET & Open XML
applications
Advanced system integration (BizTalk, Web
Services, REST, etc.) to further connect to
external systems (e.g. ERP, CRM, etc.)