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Do you need
SharePoint?- What an enterprise buyer needs to understand
about Microsoft, SharePoint and Office 365
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Perttu Tolvanen, Web & CMS Expert, @perttutolvanen
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Advisor in buying web projects and intranets
- Vendor-neutral CMS consultants- Helsinki-based, but most clients
operate in Northern Europe / Scandinavia / Russia
- CMS selections and partnerselections for large projects
- Founded 2012, growing
Agenda
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Microsoft, SharePoint and Office 365 from
business perspective
Safe scenarios for SharePoint
implementations
Recommendations for enterprise
buyers
Speaker’s background
• Technology advisor in web & extranet & intranet projects
– Lot of background with Microsoft tools, involved in SharePoint projects since2007
– Also a lot of project experience with Oracle’s systems and open source systemslike Liferay and Drupal
– Most of the customers are large organisations headquartered in Finland (typically over 1000 employees)
– Note: Finland is a Microsoft & open source country (so I am biased in someways)
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Microsoft as a company
Microsoft as a company
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1. Microsoft builds tools for office workers / knowledgeworkers.
2. Microsoft is a one-business-company, not a multi-business-company.
3. Known for ”smoke and mirrors” marketing tactics.
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Short history of SharePoint
SharePoint’s history: Part 1
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• Started as a documentmanagement system
• Microsoft’s point of view: place to saveOffice documents
SharePoint’s history: Part 2
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• Evolved to a portal system withweb publishing capabilities
• Added dozens of ’enterprisy’ features including reports, recordsmanagement, search, and so on
• Microsoft’s point of view: compete against portal vendorsand take over the intranet market
The good old SharePoint 2013
Documentmanagement
Simple, socialintranets
Document-centriccollaboration
Report browsing
Simple customapplications
Dashboards for business teams
Partnerextranets(document heavy)
Enterprise social channel(Yammer)
Complex, globalintranets
Complex, customapplications
Web contentmanagement
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Office 365 = new core business of Microsoft
Office 365 = new core business
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• ”Office as a service”• App Store for the office• No major
customizations, onlyfairly small ”add-ons”
Office 365 today
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Documentmanagement
Simple, socialintranets
Enterprise social channel(Yammer)
Document-centriccollaborationReport
browsing
Simple customapplications
Simpledashboards for business teams
Simplepartnerextranets(document heavy)
Single-sign-on point for theenterprise
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Email, calendar, Lync, etc.
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Recommendations for enterprise buyers
Recommendations
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Finally, as an enterprise buyer, what should you take from this?
1. Microsoft is not going to care about you very much for the next five years or so
2. SharePoint 2015 will most likely be just a fancy service package
3. Remember: Most Microsoft’s professional service partners are in trouble right now (especially the big ones) – you should look for specialized ones
4. Office 365 will be an office platform for knowledge workers. The more you area manufacturing/customer service heavy organization, you should alsoevaluate alternatives.
5. And remember, SharePoint is still a great platform for many purposes. Enjoy it while you still can (=many years) – just don’t expect it to get any better.
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Thank you.
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