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SharePoint: The Enterprise Platform for Business Transformation

SharePoint: The Enterprise Platform for Business Transformation. The Facts…. SharePoint is becoming THE enterprise platform Microsoft’s top-selling product Collaborative platform with native features yet untapped potential Intranet, Extranet, Internet Web 2.0 & Social Networking

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SharePoint: The Enterprise Platform for Business Transformation

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  1. SharePoint:The Enterprise Platform for Business Transformation

  2. The Facts….. • SharePoint is becoming THE enterprise platform • Microsoft’s top-selling product • Collaborative platform with native features yet untapped potential • Intranet, Extranet, Internet • Web 2.0 & Social Networking • Office 2007 and beyond…. Who Doesn’t have SharePoint?

  3. Business Process?

  4. Or Maybe this… Is it something like this…

  5. What is Business Transformation? Is it…. • Standing up MOSS and walking away? • Agreement/buy-in of executive stakeholders? • Requirements > Design > Build > Test > Deliver? • Planning and meetings followed by planning and meetings? • Information Architecture?

  6. SharePoint Workflows • Document Management & Publishing Features • Notifications • Alerts • Email Notification • Pre-built workflows • MOSS: Approval, Collect Feedback, Collect Signatures, Disposition Approval • WSSv3: 3-State • Custom Workflow • SharePoint Designer • Visual Studio

  7. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) • Core of all SharePoint and Office 2007 workflow • Part of .NET framework • Collection of classes and objects that form the in-process workflow engine • A programming model for delivering workflow-enabled applications. • Operates within a “host” - SharePoint

  8. SharePoint “Pre-Built” Workflows • 3-state (WSS) • Approval • Collect Signatures • Disposition Approval • Collect Feedback • Publishing Site (with workflow) • Features: • 3-State works with custom lists, others are for documents • Very structured – pre-defined steps • Bound to a single list or library • Leverages ‘task’ list to track workflow assignments

  9. SharePoint Designer • Custom Workflows – no code required • Workflow Designer/Wizard • Steps • Conditions • Actions • Variables • Workflow Lookups

  10. Demonstration

  11. 3-State Workflow

  12. Document Approval

  13. Publishing Page

  14. Custom Workflow & SharePoint Designer

  15. Comments / Questions?

  16. CorasWorks’ Modular Application Development System

  17. External data & applications SharePoint Business Value Continuum CorasWorks Value-Add Inter-connected Workplace Business Value Applications & Processes Structured Team Sites Ad-hoc Team Sites Structure, Process, Integration

  18. CorasWorks on the SharePoint Platform Business Applications CorasWorks SolutionAccelerators CustomApplications Microsoft Office Back-end LOB applications and data, external apps, and web services CorasWorks Workplace Suite CorasWorks Application Development Tier Data IntegrationToolset Data Windows SharePoint Services(2003 and 2007) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Capabilities Microsoft Platform Windows Server, SQL Server

  19. How CorasWorks works Admin User Interface Config File Modular Reusable Data Driven Builder • Drag & Drop • Wizard driven CorasWorks System • Dashboards • Rollups • Centrally managed navigation • Actions • Central Admin & Config Flexible Displays

  20. Typical SharePoint Architecture

  21. CorasWorks Action Framework • See, contribute, and act on information from anywhere within your environment • 2 primary purposes • For automating standard SharePoint activities • For driving business processes • Characteristics • Pre-defined action “types” that enable literally hundreds of Actions • Enabling literally hundreds of custom “workflows” • Very flexible • Highly configurable / customizable • Work on multiple items at the same time • Selective – user-driven • Work across multiple lists, libraries, sites, and site collections

  22. CorasWorks Actions • “Extending and enhancing” SharePoint Workflows • Actions can trigger SharePoint workflows • Kick-off multiple workflows with one Action • Kick-off SharePoint workflows from another site or site collection • Leveraging “active displays” that aggregate data from multiple sources and allow for create/edit from dashboard

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