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Product Catalog and IT Service Management SharePoint Saturday Chicago Suburbs. About Us. Matt Engibous Solution Lead, SharePoint Architect mengibous@concurrency.com Twitter : @ MattEngibous http :// concurrency.com/blog/author/mengibous.
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Product Catalog and IT Service ManagementSharePoint Saturday Chicago Suburbs
About Us Matt EngibousSolution Lead, SharePoint Architect mengibous@concurrency.com Twitter: @MattEngibous http://concurrency.com/blog/author/mengibous Peter HurthSolution Lead, Social Collaborationphurth@concurrency.com Twitter: @ConcurrencyPete http://concurrency.com/blog/author/phurth Drew MadelungSharePoint ECM Consultantdmadelung@concurrency.com Twitter: @DMadelung http://concurrency.com/blog/author/dmadelung
Agenda • Why IT Service Management • Product Catalog demystified • Advantages and Limitations • Online vs On-premises for the Product Catalog • Live demonstration
IT Service Management Portal • Hierarchical collection of services • Dynamic changes of IT services • Delivery of consumable services • Service specific knowledge content
Product Catalog in SharePoint 2013 • This has nothing to do actual products in SharePoint • Separation of content authoring from consumption • SharePoint Online can…
What is the Product Catalog? • Search driven sites • Cross-site publishing • Authoring content from lists and libraries • Term Store and metadata navigation • Friendly URLs • Catalog Settings
Why Product Catalog Rocks! • New SharePoint 2013 Search
SharePoint 2013 Search Architecture Public API Unit of scale/role boundary FAST Search Index ContentProcessing Index QueryProcessing WFE Crawl API Content UX HTTP File shares SharePoint User profiles Lotus Notes Exchange folders Custom - BCS SharePoint SP Apps Devices Crawl Analytics Processing Search Admin Analytics Reporting
Why Product Catalog Rocks! • Scale and Manageability • With 2 pages you can… • Category and Item • Breaking down site collection boundaries • Anonymous Access – gives users access to Search Index. Don’t need access to authoring site.
Know your limits • Managed metadata term store • 7 max level of nested terms • 30k max number of terms per term set • 1 million items per term store • 2k max items in managed navigation • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787(v=office.15).aspx • Variations (language) • Takes some work • Timer Jobs – 15 mins (sync) • http://blogs.technet.com/b/sharepoint_quick_reads/archive/2013/08/12/sharepoint-2013-variations-creating-site-and-variation-labels.aspx
On-premises / Office 365 • Prego…it's in there • Query rules, display templates, rank models, managed navigation, search schema, analytics, CSOM, query builder and result sources. • On-premises only • Product catalog site collection template • User segmentation to drive adaptative interfaces • Faceted navigation – supports taxonomy refiners • Anonymous access for cross site publishing not supported. • Office 365 • E3 and E4 plans only - Cross site publishing • Content Search and Content Iterm Reuse web parts • Category and Item page layouts • Unable to modify Search content sources
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