This document provides an agenda for a presentation on adopting SharePoint 2013. The presentation will include a survey, discussing why SharePoint intranets fail without proper adoption plans, components of a good end user adoption plan, what governance and information architecture are, what gamification is, a demo of SharePoint 2013, and a review with questions. The presentation aims to help organizations maximize adoption of SharePoint 2013 by their end users and project managers.
"The 3 P's of SharePoint 2013; Planning, Productivity, and Policies" #SPSSVGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Why do SharePoint intranets fail? What is all the buzz about SharePoint 2013? Can I get better governance with SharePoint 2013? Come spend an hour with us while we discuss the three P's of SharePoint 2013. This session describes the importance of information architecture planning; demonstrates SharePoint 2013's new productivity enhancements including social collaboration and task aggregation and project management; presents how to push SharePoint OOTB to create even more productivity within your organization; and finally shows the new governance features using site policies.
Office 365 Groups and Planner - Jump Start PM and Digital CollaborationGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Today there are more than 96 million mobile workers! With our organizations shifting into more a digital workplace, easy-to-use and secure collaboration space is a necessity. Used together, Microsoft Office 365 Groups and Office 365 Planner give you a user friendly and a visual way to organize your digital teamwork in a given project! Groups let you hold conversations about what you are working on, get progress updates from the team, and share files. Planner shows all your plans in a centralized view and lets you set due dates, assign people to tasks, and track your progress in a chart—all without the learning curve and ramp-up time usually associated with traditional project management software. Join me in this session and learn how Office 365 Groups and Planner can help you jump start project management while striking the right balance for digital collaboration your organization.
"The 3 P's of SharePoint 2013; Planning, Productivity, and Policies" #SPSSVGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Why do SharePoint intranets fail? What is all the buzz about SharePoint 2013? Can I get better governance with SharePoint 2013? Come spend an hour with us while we discuss the three P's of SharePoint 2013. This session describes the importance of information architecture planning; demonstrates SharePoint 2013's new productivity enhancements including social collaboration and task aggregation and project management; presents how to push SharePoint OOTB to create even more productivity within your organization; and finally shows the new governance features using site policies.
Office 365 Groups and Planner - Jump Start PM and Digital CollaborationGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Today there are more than 96 million mobile workers! With our organizations shifting into more a digital workplace, easy-to-use and secure collaboration space is a necessity. Used together, Microsoft Office 365 Groups and Office 365 Planner give you a user friendly and a visual way to organize your digital teamwork in a given project! Groups let you hold conversations about what you are working on, get progress updates from the team, and share files. Planner shows all your plans in a centralized view and lets you set due dates, assign people to tasks, and track your progress in a chart—all without the learning curve and ramp-up time usually associated with traditional project management software. Join me in this session and learn how Office 365 Groups and Planner can help you jump start project management while striking the right balance for digital collaboration your organization.
Today's workplace has evolved. Employees are working on more teams than ever. Teams are comprised of internal and external users, spread across different geographies and now have an ever wider multigenerational composition than before. These teams all still have to find a way to collaborate, have different needs and are facing a common set of challenges. In this session we will cover Office 365 Collaboration Use Case guidance across Teams, Skype, Office, SharePoint and Yammer, as well as, the intelligent fabric that ties them all together. You'll learn how to create a productive, digital workspace for your all of your end users that will inspire the team collaboration that is needed while eliminating the confusion on what to use for what.
Exploring the SharePoint 2013 Community Site TemplateSusan Hanley
Presentation that reviews tips and tricks for using the SharePoint 2013 Community Site template to support online communities of practice and moderated discussion forums.
Unleash the Power of Video Communication - Office 365 Video vs. Azure Media S...Gina Montgomery, V-TSP
Is your organization considering the power of Video Communication? Microsoft provides two options that can assist your organization in Video Communication. The first, robust and fully customizable option, Azure Media Services, allows you to deliver any media, on virtually any device, with the power of the Azure cloud. Microsoft also provides an out-of-the box video portal solution in Office 365 that is built on Azure Media Services and SharePoint Online. Come learn features and benefits of each.
iConnect 2015 – the Coca Cola Enterprises intranetIntranätverk
Presented by Jonathan Phillips, Coca-Cola Enterprises at Intranätverk 2015: Gothenburg, 21 May.
The presentation will focus on the following topics:
- From research to delivery – a journey through the new Coca-Cola Enterprises’ intranet
- Designing for the mobile worker
- Cross-functional governance; cross-functional site
Presentation about whether Microsoft SharePoint is suitable for use as a CMS by Frank MacDonald from Heriot-Watt University at the April meeting of the Scottish Web Folk in Glasgow. (Uploaded with permission.)
Office 365 Groups - A Whole New World of Collaboration - Cloud Saturday ATLGina Montgomery, V-TSP
End Users are looking for ways to improve their productivity around team collaboration. Challenges such as central storage around documentation, communication and schedules can prolong team projects due to disorganization. Working like a network can empower end users to collaborate quicker and more efficiently. Learn about the connected experience that Office 365 Groups offer your end-users. We will cover trends and tips & tricks around Office 365 Groups in this session.
SharePoint Adoption Solutions with GamificationJoel Oleson
Adoption is one of the biggest challenge for an Intranet. In this session on the hurdles to success we dive into the challenges and some gamification ideas and solutions to adoption.
Harness Collective Knowledge with #ProjectCortex #msignitethetourKanwal Khipple
Join us to learn about the most significant innovations ever unveiled for knowledge management and intelligent content services in Microsoft 365. Get the latest updates on Microsoft Search and other experiences that connect you with knowledge, insights, expertise, answers and actions, within your everyday experiences across Microsoft 365
Sharpen SharePoint Adoption in SharePoint 2013 with GamificationJoel Oleson
Adoption is one of the biggest problems in SharePoint. Understand the new reputation settings and take advantage of community in the social platform and build gamification into the platform with enhancements from Badgeville.
This session will discuss building an effective search and information architecture strategy for SharePoint.
One of the reasons many SharePoint implementations fail to meet user expectations is the lack of investment in its underlying information architecture. Some organizations see SharePoint as an out-of-the-box solution that they can simply plug in and throw content into, but it requires as much thought and effort around data structure, organizational principles, and search configuration as any portal or intranet.
This call will discuss building an effective search and information architecture strategy for SharePoint, including such topics as:
• Building a search & IA vision
• Requirements gathering & use cases
• Implementation strategy & approaches
• The future of SharePoint search
How Capital Power Overcame 7 Common SharePoint Intranet ChallengesBonzai Intranet
Watch a recording of the webinar here: http://hubs.ly/H07H2Lw0
Watch Robin Morgan, Intranet Project Lead at Capital Power, share his learnings from a recent intranet redesign project. Like many organizations who have implemented custom-built Intranets on SharePoint and Office 365, Morgan and his team came to recognize the inefficiencies and complexities the system created for everyday business operations.
You will learn how the power company developed an Intranet that is:
- Flexible and easy to use for all users including content authors
- Cost effective to maintain, manage and grow
- Mobile responsive for anytime, anywhere access
- Trusted with search results that are always relevant
- Consistent for user experience across the board
- Well maintained with governance that makes it so
Presentation given in San Francisco in January 2013 by myself and Paul Lawbaugh from Webtrends on the importance of capturing robust metrics to better understand the end user experience, build out strong KPIs and metrics, and optimize/improve based on data.
Today's workplace has evolved. Employees are working on more teams than ever. Teams are comprised of internal and external users, spread across different geographies and now have an ever wider multigenerational composition than before. These teams all still have to find a way to collaborate, have different needs and are facing a common set of challenges. In this session we will cover Office 365 Collaboration Use Case guidance across Teams, Skype, Office, SharePoint and Yammer, as well as, the intelligent fabric that ties them all together. You'll learn how to create a productive, digital workspace for your all of your end users that will inspire the team collaboration that is needed while eliminating the confusion on what to use for what.
Exploring the SharePoint 2013 Community Site TemplateSusan Hanley
Presentation that reviews tips and tricks for using the SharePoint 2013 Community Site template to support online communities of practice and moderated discussion forums.
Unleash the Power of Video Communication - Office 365 Video vs. Azure Media S...Gina Montgomery, V-TSP
Is your organization considering the power of Video Communication? Microsoft provides two options that can assist your organization in Video Communication. The first, robust and fully customizable option, Azure Media Services, allows you to deliver any media, on virtually any device, with the power of the Azure cloud. Microsoft also provides an out-of-the box video portal solution in Office 365 that is built on Azure Media Services and SharePoint Online. Come learn features and benefits of each.
iConnect 2015 – the Coca Cola Enterprises intranetIntranätverk
Presented by Jonathan Phillips, Coca-Cola Enterprises at Intranätverk 2015: Gothenburg, 21 May.
The presentation will focus on the following topics:
- From research to delivery – a journey through the new Coca-Cola Enterprises’ intranet
- Designing for the mobile worker
- Cross-functional governance; cross-functional site
Presentation about whether Microsoft SharePoint is suitable for use as a CMS by Frank MacDonald from Heriot-Watt University at the April meeting of the Scottish Web Folk in Glasgow. (Uploaded with permission.)
Office 365 Groups - A Whole New World of Collaboration - Cloud Saturday ATLGina Montgomery, V-TSP
End Users are looking for ways to improve their productivity around team collaboration. Challenges such as central storage around documentation, communication and schedules can prolong team projects due to disorganization. Working like a network can empower end users to collaborate quicker and more efficiently. Learn about the connected experience that Office 365 Groups offer your end-users. We will cover trends and tips & tricks around Office 365 Groups in this session.
SharePoint Adoption Solutions with GamificationJoel Oleson
Adoption is one of the biggest challenge for an Intranet. In this session on the hurdles to success we dive into the challenges and some gamification ideas and solutions to adoption.
Harness Collective Knowledge with #ProjectCortex #msignitethetourKanwal Khipple
Join us to learn about the most significant innovations ever unveiled for knowledge management and intelligent content services in Microsoft 365. Get the latest updates on Microsoft Search and other experiences that connect you with knowledge, insights, expertise, answers and actions, within your everyday experiences across Microsoft 365
Sharpen SharePoint Adoption in SharePoint 2013 with GamificationJoel Oleson
Adoption is one of the biggest problems in SharePoint. Understand the new reputation settings and take advantage of community in the social platform and build gamification into the platform with enhancements from Badgeville.
This session will discuss building an effective search and information architecture strategy for SharePoint.
One of the reasons many SharePoint implementations fail to meet user expectations is the lack of investment in its underlying information architecture. Some organizations see SharePoint as an out-of-the-box solution that they can simply plug in and throw content into, but it requires as much thought and effort around data structure, organizational principles, and search configuration as any portal or intranet.
This call will discuss building an effective search and information architecture strategy for SharePoint, including such topics as:
• Building a search & IA vision
• Requirements gathering & use cases
• Implementation strategy & approaches
• The future of SharePoint search
How Capital Power Overcame 7 Common SharePoint Intranet ChallengesBonzai Intranet
Watch a recording of the webinar here: http://hubs.ly/H07H2Lw0
Watch Robin Morgan, Intranet Project Lead at Capital Power, share his learnings from a recent intranet redesign project. Like many organizations who have implemented custom-built Intranets on SharePoint and Office 365, Morgan and his team came to recognize the inefficiencies and complexities the system created for everyday business operations.
You will learn how the power company developed an Intranet that is:
- Flexible and easy to use for all users including content authors
- Cost effective to maintain, manage and grow
- Mobile responsive for anytime, anywhere access
- Trusted with search results that are always relevant
- Consistent for user experience across the board
- Well maintained with governance that makes it so
Presentation given in San Francisco in January 2013 by myself and Paul Lawbaugh from Webtrends on the importance of capturing robust metrics to better understand the end user experience, build out strong KPIs and metrics, and optimize/improve based on data.
How to Create an Award-Winning Intranet (Part 1 of 12) Bonzai Intranet
In Part 1 of our 12 part intranet series, 'Architecting & Executing Intranet Success,' We discuss How to Create an Award-Winning SharePoint Intranet Platform on Office 365.
The Future of SharePoint A Real World IT ViewKaruana Gatimu
SPTechCon Keynote deck on the future of SharePoint. Includes a view of Microsoft IT's AutoSites solution for cloud provisioning and IT Dev Center. August 2013
Gamify SharePoint 2013 to Increase Adoption
Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems” -Wikipedia-
This presentation will give you an overview on how you can use this process to increase adoption of SharePoint 2013 in your organization.
SharePoint 2013 Migration - Your 5 Rules for SuccessChristian Buckley
An overview of SharePoint 2013, and best practices for organizing and orchestrating your migration to the latest version of SharePoint -- whether on prem, in the cloud, or a hybrid. Includes a quick overview of PointBeyond's migration planning services.
Coexist or Integrate? How Add-ins Deliver an Integrated Environment to Manage...Concept Searching, Inc
Are you successfully managing your unstructured content? Have you quantified the risks and costs of not proactively managing your content? Did you know that you can dramatically improve search, eDiscovery, security, records management, migration, collaboration, text analytics, and business social applications, just by getting your unstructured content in order?
There are key solutions that will enable you to achieve these improvements. conceptClassifier for SharePoint and conceptClassifier for Office 365 automatically generate multi-term metadata that form concepts. Imagine it – eliminating end user tagging.
Auto-classification and one natively integrated taxonomy/ Term Store, available on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment, provide the backdrop for a single enterprise search, regardless of where end users are located. Tackle information governance and standardize processes across the entire enterprise.
The availability of these solutions as add-ins reduces time, costs, and resources, including those of both hardware and technical experts – a typical drain on SharePoint resources. Join us as we explore why you should evaluate add-ins, and how you can finally take charge of your content to meet a variety of challenges and achieve a significant ROI.
SharePoint Governance at Bank of Montreal - How we took action to curb the sprawl of sites
Learn about the current state of Information Management in AIIM’s latest report: http://info.aiim.org/2017-state-of-information-management
Create Great Search Experiences with SharePoint 2013 WebinarPerficient, Inc.
In this presentation, Perficient covers the key components of designing and delivering optimal search experiences using Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013 platform including:
1. Developing a core understanding of the user
2. Determining appropriate search parameters
3. Implementing advanced filtering
4. Displaying and sorting results effectively
5. Leveraging technology to deliver on the desired user experience
SharePoint 2013 Search & Social - What You Need to Know!Perficient, Inc.
Description: A lot can be said about SharePoint 2013 when it comes to enterprise search and social. By putting internet-class search power in the hands of business users, SharePoint 2013’s new search features stand ready to power the next generation of internet and intranet search solutions.
In this webinar we’ll cover key components of designing and delivering optimal search experiences, while also exploring the platform’s social collaboration capabilities:
SharePoint 2013’s new search and social features
How search goes social in the new release
How to identify which social features will bring value to your organization - both now and in the future
Using SharePoint 2013 search to enhance knowledge sharing in your organization
SharePpoint Support & Managed Services by NetpeachNagaraj Yerram
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of SharePoint, core features of SharePoint, what activities are involved in SharePoint support, and the benefits of proper implementation of SharePoint.
Similar to "Adoption Tactics; Why Your End Users and Project Managers Will Rave Over SharePoint 2013" SPSRED13 (20)
Enhancing Relevancy & User Experience with SharePoint Search - SPSBMORE 2015Gina Montgomery, V-TSP
Delays in discovering data, especially for end users, will lead to end user adoption issues. Utilizing OOTB SharePoint Search functionality such as display templates, document previews, query rules and visual refiners is guaranteed to improve the end user's search experience. In this session we will cover the latest SharePoint Search Online features that will help your end users to reach the relevant content that they are searching for while providing them an improved user experience.
Impact Your Business; Identifying Low-Hanging Fruit for SharePoint 2013 No-Co...Gina Montgomery, V-TSP
To code or not to code; is that really the question? In today’s ever-changing business landscape, our end users are demanding tools that can help them do their job better and faster. Did you know that many of these tools can be created by you without any IT intervention? Come spend an hour with me learning how to reverberate your organization’s SharePoint 2013 environment by identifying low-hanging; high impacting no-code solutions. Impact your business and boost productivity amongst your workforce by rapidly solving some of their business needs and give them a relevant set of tools to help them become an agile workforce. In this session we will discuss what it takes to identify the requirements for no-code solutions while also empowering you with guidance on how to design a practical no-code solution.
Take a Leap into the Connected Cloud; 3 Trending Hybrid Cloud ScenariosGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Organizations are feeling the shift to the hybrid cloud as leading publishers such as Microsoft pushes their cloud platforms. Executive management is left pondering what solutions can be cloud based and how to integrate them into existing IT investments without significant effort and cost. Microsoft has created a number of hybrid options that allow companies to selectively migrate enterprise solutions or build new apps that use cloud services while maintaining an on-premises infrastructure. Spend an hour learning about Microsoft's Cloud stack and 3 trending Hybrid scenarios built on top of it. Hybrid Identity, Hybrid Storage and Hybrid Exchange will be discussed in this session.
SharePoint adoption is a very tricky subject. The best planned and designed SharePoint portals can fail if users don’t adopt to SharePoint. Gartner surveys say that more than 50% of SharePoint implementations fail due to poor user adoption. With millions of dollars spent each year on SharePoint deployments, this becomes quite significant. SharePoint adoption starts with proper planning, implementation and governance. In order to have sustained user engagement, new techniques like gamification are also emerging. This session will focus on all these aspects and will provide the attendees ideas and tools to implement for their SharePoint portal. Attendees will be presented with the challenges currently being faced with SharePoint deployments centered around adoption, best practices around planning and governance will be discussed, and ideas for SharePoint gamificaiton will also be presented.
Are you considering the impact of a social workplace? Not sure where to get started? A successful social solution for your enterprise can provide your users with the tools that they are used to using to really kickstart productivity and collaboration amongst one another. Microsoft has gone social in a big way with SharePoint 2013 and Yammer. Come spend an hour learning 3 different key aspects to consider when creating your enterprise social strategy. You will walk away with the knowledge to get the Enterprise Social conversation started in your own organization.
SharePoint was first launched in 2001 as a document and content management system for teams to work together. We have definitely come a long way from there! But the core reason still is very much relevant today, especially for project teams. SharePoint 2013 provides a gamut of features for managing projects. With a bit of configuration, all aspects including project planning, resourcing, costs , reporting and more can be managed. All this apart from managing project related documents and work items. Come and learn how you can get started with SharePoint 2013 for project management. And even if you are on SharePoint 2010, don’t worry. We have got something for you too!
Today there are ongoing trends in business that are driving consumer or end user expectations within the workplace.
Trends such as cloud readiness, social collaboration, and mobility are all driving end user adoption of technology platforms such as SharePoint.
Without us keeping up with these trends end user adoption suffers.
Today we will learn about how the SharePoint 2013 ecosystem is paving the way for end user experience and innovation while addressing today's top trends in business.
Changes in SharePoint 2013 licensing will also be addressed.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
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UI automation Sample
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Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
"Adoption Tactics; Why Your End Users and Project Managers Will Rave Over SharePoint 2013" SPSRED13
1. “Adoption Tactics: Why Your End Users and Project Managers Will
Rave Over SharePoint 2013”
Gina Montgomery – VP, Business Development
Abhishek Shanbhag – VP Business Solutions
Ron Clampitt – Strategic Account Executive
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Gina Montgomery, Vice President Business Development
2. Hi, I’m Gina!
Gina Montgomery, VP, Business Development
Gina Montgomery is the Vice President of Business
Development for North America. She is a SharePoint Evangelist
and subject matter expert in architecting SharePoint solutions.
Gina brings expertise in helping organizations maximize their
I.T. investments. Her focus has been on strategy, project
planning, analysis, best practices in software licensing, and
implementing successful business solutions. Gina is responsible
for Acuvate's New Business Development and Partner Alliances
in North America.
Twitter: @ginammontgomery
Blog: www.ginamontgomery.com
Email: gina.montgomery@acuvate.com
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Easily configurable, incentive
calculation engine for rolling
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and pay-outs.
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13. Why are we here?
• SharePoint is a platform that is meant to help your
organization:
– better share information
– better manage business processes
– better manage documents
– bring the social computing aspect and improved productivity for
information workers into your work environment
– serve as a development foundation on which more business
solutions can be created.
14. Agenda
• Survey
• You need a plan!
• Why do SharePoint Intranet’s Fail?
• Components of a good End User Adoption Plan
• What is SharePoint governance?
• What is Information Architecture?
• What is gamification?
• SharePoint 2013 DEMO
• Review and Questions
15. Survey Questions
What version of SharePoint do you have deployed?
1. SP 2007
2. SP 2010
3. SP 2013
4. SP online
What SharePoint functions have you deployed?
1. Sites (portal, intranet)
2. Insights (BI / analytics)
3. Collaboration
4. Content management
5. Custom internal-facing apps
6. Custom external-facing apps
7. Search
8. Social
16. Survey Questions
What Adoption challenges have you faced?
1. UI isn’t friendly
2. Learning curve is too high for end users
3. No one will contribute
4. No real use cases identified for SharePoint in my organization
5. Other?
17. Agenda
• Survey
• You need a plan!
• Why do SharePoint Intranet’s Fail?
• Components of a good End User Adoption Plan
• What is SharePoint governance?
• What is Information Architecture?
• What is gamification?
• SharePoint 2013 DEMO
• Review and Questions
18. End User Adoption Plan
• You need one. With no vision, there is no victory!
• A documented plan will help increase the odds of a successful
SharePoint rollout.
• When a document is required that means someone really has
to think! And then get it reviewed! And that means
collaboration happens which leads to more ideas..
• Your end users should be a part of this process
19. Does your SharePoint intranet plan suffer from:
• Boring user interface?
• No branding?
• No dynamic content?
• Poor Information Architecture?
• Unidentified Governance Plan?
• No Communication Plan?
20.
21. Why do SharePoint Intranets Fail?
• Gartner surveys
say that more
than 50% of
SharePoint
implementations
fail due to poor
user adoption!
22. If you build it, will they come?
• If your users don’t know how and when to use SharePoint, they won’t!
• WIIFM?!
• Will I be more productive if I use this? Or is this just another demand from
management that won’t help me? I have too much work to do already!
• A well thought out End User Adoption plan that includes a good governance plan,
good information architecture, and some adoption incentives can help your users
understand this.
23. Agenda
• Survey
• You need a plan!
• Why do SharePoint Intranet’s Fail?
• Components of a good End User Adoption Plan
• What is SharePoint governance?
• What is Information Architecture?
• What is gamification?
• SharePoint 2013 DEMO
• Review and Questions
24. Considerations For Your Plan:
• Phased Rollout
Methodology
• Governance Strategy
• IA Strategy
• Communication Plan
• Rewards and
Recognition
• Training Plan
25. Agenda
• Survey
• You need a plan!
• Why do SharePoint Intranet’s Fail?
• Components of a good End User Adoption Plan
• What is SharePoint governance?
• What is Information Architecture?
• What is gamification?
• SharePoint 2013 DEMO
• Review and Questions
26. What is SharePoint Governance?
Governance identifies lines of ownership for the business and technical teams
and identifies who is responsible for which areas of the system. The governance
plan also establishes rules for appropriate use of the SharePoint environments.
27. Governance
• Governance is a set of roles, responsibilities, and processes that are
put in place in an enterprise to guide the development and the use
of a SharePoint solution. These techniques should also align with
the enterprise’s culture and goals while enabling teams and
individuals to effectively collaborate and share information.
• Key Words:
o Enable
o Collaborate
o Share
28. Governance for Adoption
Step 1
Establish a governing body for the usage and management of SharePoint
environments by:
– Identifying appropriate business owners willing to provide strategic insight and
direction
– Identifying appropriate IT infrastructure to provide operational support
– Creating effective support system through proper channels of escalation for
end users
– Establishing governing usage and maintenance policies and procedures along
the way
29. Getting Started with Governance in 2013
What to Consider Description
Unused Sites What happens to unused sites?
Social Policy Appropriate vs Inappropriate, Liking, Tagging,
Following, etc..
Site Management Site Owners need to know how sites will be managed.
Are they controlled? Are they managed by the IA?
Site Templates Which templates are available and how will they be
used?
Site Request How will users go about asking for a new site? What
will be included in the new site (type of template,
customizations?)
Change Request/Feedback Model – Support? How is support defined? To whom does the End User
address to get answers?
Naming Conventions How will DBs, Servers, etc... be named? It should be
consistent.
SharePoint Designer Governing the usage of SPD for editing/designing pages
for a common look and feel
Etc!!!
30. Agenda
• Survey
• You need a plan!
• Why do SharePoint Intranet’s Fail?
• Components of a good End User Adoption Plan
• What is SharePoint governance?
• What is Information Architecture?
• What is gamification?
• SharePoint 2013 DEMO
• Review and Questions
31. What is Information Architecture?
IA is your company’s way of describing, organizing and
discovering your content
The Information Architecture Institute describes IA as "the art
and science of organizing and labeling websites, intranets, online
communities and software to support usability."
32. IA tends to include the following:
• Navigation Structure
• Metadata Strategy
• Site Taxonomy
• Search Strategy
33. IA
• Your information architecture helps users find information in
any of three scenarios:
– I know it does exist and I actually know where it is.
– I know it does exists, but I really don’t know where it is.
– I have no idea if it exists.
34. Why should I care about IA?
• Because End User Adoption relies upon this!
• Usability - Sites that lack a well-thought out IA tend to
become desolate. It is difficult to find information because
the site navigation is substandard
• Site Management/Administration - A good, thought out IA
will help address storage requirements and goals.
35. Information Architecture
• If SharePoint is difficult to use, confusing to
navigate through, and information can’t be
found quickly adoption won’t occur!
36. Agenda
• Survey
• You need a plan!
• Why do SharePoint Intranet’s Fail?
• Components of a good End User Adoption Plan
• What is SharePoint governance?
• What is Information Architecture?
• What is gamification?
• SharePoint 2013 DEMO
• Review and Questions
37. Gamification
Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game
context to engage users and solve problems
Enhance
Skill Speed Collaboration
Achievement Competition Status
Using
Gamification
By measuring By Creating By providing
38. Gamification
• When designed correctly, gamification has
proven to be extremely successful and
efficient in engaging people and helping them
to change behaviors, collaborate, improve
skills and solve problems.
40. Gina Montgomery
VP Business Development
gina.montgomery@acuvate.com, 913-217-0211
Abhishek Shanbhag
VP Business Solutions
abhishek@acuvate.com, 347-971-7080
Ron Clampitt
Strategic Account Executive
ron.clampitt@acuvate.com, 816-914-7023
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