Christian Buckley Director of Product Evangelism, Axceler

1. A Business User's Guide to Getting the Most Out of SharePoint 2013 Christian Buckley Director of Product Evangelism, Axceler

2. A Business User's Guide to Getting the Most Out of SharePoint 2013 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. About • Christian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler • Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server • Prior to Axceler, worked for Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed Services team (now Office365-Dedicated) and worked as a consultant in the areas of software, supply chain, grid technology, and collaboration • Co-founded and sold a software company to Rational Software. At E2open, helped design, build, and deploy a SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager), onboarding numerous high-tech manufacturing companies, including Hitachi, Matsushita, Cisco, 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@axceler.com

4. Get the Book • Published 2012 by Microsoft Press • Order your copy at http://oreil.ly/qC4loT • Tackle 10 common business problems with proven SharePoint solutions: • 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. Axceler Overview Improving Collaboration since 2007 Mission: To enable enterprises to simplify, optimize, and secure their collaborative platforms Delivered award-winning administration and migration software since 1994, for SharePoint since 2007 Over 3,000 global customers Dramatically improve the management of SharePoint Innovative products that improve security, scalability, reliability, “deployability” Making IT more effective and efficient and lower the total cost of ownership Focus on solving specific SharePoint problems (Administration & Migration) Coach enterprises on SharePoint best practices Give administrators the most innovative tools available Anticipate customers’ needs Deliver best of breed offerings Stay in lock step with SharePoint development and market trends

6. Business Problems Adoption issues Weak usage of taxonomy and templates Poor collaboration Slow to realize benefits of SharePoint investments

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

8. Productivity Goals • Engagement • Retention • Motivation • Innovation (depth) (loyalty) (inspiration) (value)

9. SharePoint 2013 Themes

10. WCM Features Benefits • Cross Site Publishing • Video & Embedding • Image renditions • Clean URLs • Metadata navigation • Variations & Content Translation • Search Engine Optimization • Built for the internet • Built for mobile • Supports the tools and workflows designers use

11. Office Features Benefits • Web-based access to the Office applications • Drag and drop from the desktop to the platform • Exchange integrations • Improved notifications • Online and offline editing • Improved end user experience • Aggregated view into the entire desktop

12. Search Features Benefits • FAST integration • Hover panels • Search by metadata • Search result customization • Improved analytics • Manage user permissions • Comprehensive security reports • Recommendations for permissions clean up

13. Social Features Benefits • Community • Social tagging • Easily share content and activities • Follow documents, people, sites, tags, and activities • Improved activity streams • Improved My Sites • Save locally • Build more robust metadata • Make content more findable • Link people, teams, content and activities

14. Online 1st Features Benefits • Nearing parity between online and on prem • Robust integration between the desktop and the platform • Speeding up the delivery of new features • Built for the cloud • Faster realization of the benefits of the cloud • Access to tools and data anytime, anywhere

15. In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft is “all in” on the 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.

16. SharePoint is also “all in” on 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.

17. 43% $6.1 billion 48% $9 billion 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

18. Why partners and developers should care about SharePoint in the cloud 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. Why Focus on Productivity?

20. Why focus on Productivity? 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

21. The result? 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

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

23. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop

26. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop My Tasks

28. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop My Tasks Outlook Integration

30. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop My Tasks Outlook Integration Rollups / Aggregation Capability

31. These images courtesy of Liam Cleary (@helloitsliam)

32. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop My Tasks Outlook Integration Rollups / Aggregation Capability Activity Feeds

34. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop My Tasks Outlook Integration Rollups / Aggregation Capability Activity Feeds Projects and Deadlines

37. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop My Tasks Outlook Integration Rollups / Aggregation Capability Activity Feeds Projects and Deadlines Simplified Sharing

39. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop My Tasks Outlook Integration Rollups / Aggregation Capability Activity Feeds Projects and Deadlines Simplified Sharing The App Model

41. Making end users more productive Drag and Drop My Tasks Outlook Integration Rollups / Aggregation Capability Activity Feeds Projects and Deadlines Simplified Sharing The App Model Advanced Search

43. Making end users more productive 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

45. Image borrowed from the SharePoint 911 team at Rackspace

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