Last year in Las Vegas the SharePoint Conference 2014 was held in between March 3rd to 6th. The prime vision of this summit was to connect, re-imagine and transform the whole concept people see SharePoint and use it for development. Much about the future of Microsoft’s SharePoint has been discussed over here. The integration part with Yammer, Office 365 and mobility were other major points covered. While discussing about the three visions the IT professionals are asked to connect with peers, technology and cloud. The developers were asked to reimagine SharePoint and Office development with new cloud app model and executives requested to transform business by becoming more agile. These are the building blocks for future of SharePoint.   The whole focus of this conference has been developing on- platform solutions based on architecture practices for supporting migration to Office 365 hassle-free in coming future. The whole approach has only one aim and i.e. to make the code safer and friendlier and compliant with both on-platform and cloud with equal tenacity. Shamit khemka talks about bright future for microsoft SharePoint developers.

1. A bright future Awaits for
Microsoft SharePoint
developers
By Shamit Khemka

2. Introduction
Last year in Las Vegas the SharePoint Conference 2014 was
held in between March 3rd to 6th. The prime vision of this
summit was to connect, re-imagine and transform the whole
concept people see SharePoint and use it for development.
Much about the future of Microsoft’s SharePoint has been
discussed over here. The integration part with Yammer, Office
365 and mobility were other major points covered. While
discussing about the three visions the IT professionals are
asked to connect with peers, technology and cloud. The
developers were asked to reimagine SharePoint and Office
development with new cloud app model and executives
requested to transform business by becoming more agile.
These are the building blocks for future of SharePoint.
The whole focus of this conference has been developing on-
platform solutions based on architecture practices for supporting
migration to Office 365 hassle-free in coming future. The whole
approach has only one aim and i.e. to make the code safer and
friendlier and compliant with both on-platform and cloud with
equal tenacity.

3. How are the competitors doing?
Being in the market for quite some time makes every
product fight with competitors and this has been the
same case with Microsoft’s SharePoint, but a look
over Google trends interest part, it is seen that
comparing with Alfresco, Box and Lotus Quickr it is
much ahead of all and is gaining more pace recently.
With over 3.4 million developers using SharePoint for
delivering solutions it has to retain such a height of
dominance over rest.

5. Few predictions for
SharePoint and its partners in
2015
If the present momentum continues SharePoint is sure to witness quite a progress in
next few years and after the revelation of SharePoint Conference 2014’s agenda it is
now clearer. Based on it certain predications are shared as below which will influence
SharePoint development services.
 More and more SMBs will start using SharePoint in cloud; big names are still
expected to wait: Office 365 has been quite popular in the SMB segment and the
growing user base shows that, but purchasing it is still not an option for enterprise
as there is no solid linking between the onsite version and cloud. This is expected
to change in coming days.
 Data processing will be emphasized upon than just capturing: Big data is often
being considered as the modern day mentor for SharePoint. This is because now
SharePoint focuses more on gathering the data and processing it in consumable
shape for the end-user. All these and data visualization is going to be some future
attributes of this Microsoft lineage.
 Complying with Mobile way: Mobile is the future and this is quite understandable
to SharePoint too. Maximum data consumption globally is now through this
platform. Through mobile the extranet issues of SharePoint is likely to get solved.
This issue is mostly related to licensing as that part could not be solved by Office
365. Thus, this might be another great predication in this regards.

6. Developer does have a promising
career
If you are in the technical realm being a developer is what
seems to be the call of hour. One can try being mobile app
developer, web app developer or even software developer. The
last one according to Robert Half Technology has seen a 7.7%
of increase in salary throughout the industry and hence is one of
the most coveted careers now. Being a SharePoint developer
has a really promising career ahead, but one must make sure to
making their base stronger for the job.
Some of the major parts which need continued attention
comprise of skill set over .Net, ASP.Net, HTML, JavaScript and
CSS, etc. Along with all these you need to get the command
over OAuth, Azure, and get acquainted with the fresh
SharePoint App model.
Along with these one must ensure mentality changing while
being in any development process as highlighted in SharePoint
Conference 2014 prime agenda.

7. Conclusion
Being one of the most respected
business brands in the whole side
world, Microsoft SharePoint developers
are set for solid career graph always,
but looking over the present
developments if can safely be said that
much more can be waiting for them in
the positive corner.

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