The document discusses the pros and cons of SharePoint 2013, highlighting enhancements such as improved branding, UI independence from Silverlight, and better social and mobile experiences, alongside significant challenges like cumbersome branding functionality and complex app infrastructure. It outlines costs associated with SharePoint implementations and customization options while providing expert opinions on the platform's effectiveness and future. Overall, it suggests that SharePoint is suitable for medium to large companies seeking collaboration solutions, despite its limitations and expenses.

1. Pros & Cons SharePoint 2013
Toby Ward, Prescient Digital Media
Tamer El Shazli, Social Business Interactive

2. Speakers
Founder, Prescient & SBI: Toby Ward
– Toby is an internationally recognized and acclaimed expert in the
areas of communications, enterprise technology, intranets, and
social media. 20 years consulting experience with many dozens of
Fortune 500s and big name brands.
VP, Technology, SBI: Tamer el Shazli
– 18+ years of technology experience including key roles within start-
up, turnaround, and established environments. An elite SharePoint
expert: Microsoft VTSP, certified Microsoft SharePoint MCPD/MCTIS
and certified PMP.

4. SBI: SharePoint experts
• Social Business Interactive (SBI) builds and deploys world-class
social business intranets, portals, and social media platforms
• Focused on Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft platforms

5. SharePoint Experts
• We are experts in using and deploying Microsoft SharePoint
– more than two-thirds of our clients use SharePoint
• Our technology team has been developing solutions on
SharePoint for over 10 years - from SharePoint 2003 to the
most recent version, SharePoint 2013
• SBI’s team is highly experienced in
– Microsoft’s best practices and techniques
– Minimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

7. Prescient: Intranet Experts
• 12 years of profitable history
• Dozens of Fortune 500 Clients
• World-Renown Thought Leaders; 150+ intranet projects

8. Select clients

9. PrescientDigital.com
• Hundreds of articles
• Dozens of white papers & reports
• Dozens of case studies & videos
• Multiple social media channels

10. First ever intranet methodology

11. POLL
Which SharePoint do you use?

12. Poll Answers
• SharePoint 2013
• SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint 2007
• Something older
• None yet, but plan to

13. Improved Branding

14. Improved Branding

17. UI independence from SilverLight
• No more dependencies on SilverLight to create sites or lists

18. Apps store
• The new custom apps concept makes SharePoint
customization a lot easier (but still very rudimentary)

19. Impressive Office Apps
• Office apps are amazing

20. Excel integration

21. Excel power pivot – Project reporting

22. Excel power pivot – Sales reporting

23. Application integration

24. Using App in the browser

25. Enhanced “social”

26. Enhanced “social”

27. Twitter like Newsfeed

28. Enhanced mobile experience
• Better (though not ideal), and option for Desktop view

29. Improved ‘Cloud’ experience: SkyDrive

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More Pros
• Enhanced authorization and authentication
• Search improvements - most notable the ability to manage
search from within the site collection as opposed to central
admin
• Community sites for OOB social site deployment
• SkyDrive Pro allows for cloud storage and synchronization
• Cross farm content publishing
• IDEAL: small company of 100-5000 needing a collaboration
based portal in a .NET environment

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Cons
• Branding functionality is still cumbersome to utilize
• Site level retention policies - not a great advantage but good
to have
• Newsfeed is a good addition but has so many issues and
limitations
• BCS odata is very complicated to get it working
• Apps infrastructure is very clunky and in some cases
unrealistic to implement
• Apps are very primitive and somewhat rudimentary - only
iframes, too isolated

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More Cons
• Cannot be deployed to a small environment with its full
capabilities - need separate OWA server, separate workflow
server
• The new Access DB templates (apps) are useless at his stage ,
you better off using light switch
• Cross-sites and site collections integration and list linking is
still no near where it should be
• CAUTION: Potential for unmanaged proliferation without
careful planning & governance; not a large enterprise
solution unto itself

33. Total Cost (TCO)
• Understanding SharePoint solutions cost
structure:
 Software licensing only accounts for 7%
 Hardware, consultancy & training, a further 33%
 Customization & Staffing cost is 60%
 SharePoint is typically implemented as a
platform, not as a product, dramatically
increasing customization costs and TCO

34. SharePoint customization options
• InfoPath
• SharePoint Designer
• OOB Customization •
•
Excel/Word
Access
TCO
• Office tools OOB
Office Tools
• 3rd Party configuration
• VS solutions and customization
3rd Party
Config.
VS
Solutions
• Newsgator
• Bamboo
• Colligo
• Quest

35. Common development practice
 Proof of Concept and prototypes
Office  Low budget projects: $100K-$300K
Tools
 Very tight scope – Client assumes most of the risks
 Minimal branding, customization, and UI/UX changes
OOB  Functional and technical risks are transferred to 3rd
Customization + 3rd party vendors
Party components  Medium project size, between $100K-$1M
 Standard approach with vendors
 Full-blown project and large SDLC
Visual Studio Solutions  SharePoint OOB features largely replaced
with custom components
 Large TCO and maintenance + support cost
 Project size is $500K+

36. SBI approach
• Branding
• UX and UI
OOB Customization+ JQuery + Client
• Clients Web parts
Model Services + Open platforms and • Clients Apps
Service • Social Interaction
SharePoint Designer + 3rd • Complex Branding and UI Design
Party Components • Workflows and flow logic
• Simple Interconnectivity and integration
Visual
• Complex System-to-System integration
Studio • Complex back-end logic
• Services provisioning and integration

37. What the experts say...

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Expert quotes:
“The release of SharePoint 2013 offers many of the same
promises the previous versions promoted. It is absolutely true
that 2013 is the best SharePoint release to date. However, it is
also true that SharePoint still has both new and old challenges to
overcome.”
• Shawn Shell, Consejo Inc., author of The Real Story
Group “The SharePoint Report”

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Expert quotes:
• “Skip SharePoint, Go with Yammer for Enterprise Social.”
• Larry Cannell, Research Director, Gartner

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Expert quotes:
• “Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises'
collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us
that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to
provide a broader range of social, web content, and content
delivery functionality.“
• Rob Koplowitz and John Rymer, Forrester

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Overall
• Considerable improvement over 2010
• Impressive Office integration
• Not best-of-breed for many applications
• Still expensive
• IDEAL: medium to large company of 1000-20,000 needing a
collaboration based portal in a .NET environment

42. Q&A

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Contact Information
Toby Ward Tamer El Shazli
toby@prescientdigital.com tamer@socialbiz.ca
www.PrescientDigital.com www.SocialBiz.ca
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