Microsoft

GOLD

PARTNER100%Microsoft focused

8Years in the

making

£10mGlobal revenue

PLATFORMS

• SharePoint

• Office 365

• Yammer

• Windows Azure

NUMEROUS

AWARDS

• Nielsen Norman 2014

• Best Intranet Award

GLOBAL

PRESENCE

• UK-HQ

• 5 US Offices

• 100+ employees

SPEAKERS

Brett JohnsonBusiness Productivity

Technical Sales Lead

at Microsoft, UK

Marc WrightChairman

At Simply

Communicate

Hannah Unsworth SharePoint Consultant

at BrightStarr

Sam HassaniPrincipal Consultant

(MCM) at BrightStarr

Melvin LancelotHead of Alliances,

Presales at BrightStarr

18:45 – 19:00

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19:30 – 19:45

19:45 – 20:15

20:15 – 22:00

21:00

Microsoft - Exploring the biggest Microsoft developments of 2014

Simply Communicate – What’s changed in internal comms in 2014?

BrightStarr – How are these changes affecting your solutions?

BrightStarr - What’s hot in 2015 for enterprise collaboration?

BrightStarr - Unily demo - How is technology evolving in 2015?

You - Canapés & Christmas drinks!

*Christmas prize giveaway*

OUR FESTIVE AGENDA

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‘THE CLASSIC CHRISTMAS HAMPER’ FROM FORTNUM & MASON

SESSION 1EXPLORING THE BIGGEST MICROSOFT

DEVELOPMENTS OF 2014

Brett Johnson

Business Productivity

Technical Sales Lead

MICROSOFT

skype translator

skype translator

skype translator

Private, secure social network for your business

SharePoint-based file storage provides a single place to manage your content

Inline Social experiences across Office makes posting updates, docs, emails easy

Secure cloud based video upload, storage and optimized playback

Create, manage, and subscribe to various channels

Capture, share, and discover videos from any device

Interactively visualize data to uncover insights & share in the cloud

Add predictive analytics to your reports for forecasting and population plotting

Access touch-first reports across devices, anywhere for Mobile BI

Discover new information tailored to you from your network

Stay connected and informed on topics that matter the most

A natural new way to navigate, discover, and search across your organization

Insights derived from each users behavior, their relationships to content, topics and one-another.

Smart connections between people, content and conversations across Office

An extensible intelligence fabric that delivers a new era of information experiences

SESSION 2WHAT’S CHANGED FOR INTERNAL COMMS IN 2014?

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT IN 2015?

Marc Wright

Chairman

Simply Communicate

80%

7%

13%

Are you currently using internal social media?

Yes

Thinking about it

No

2014

2014 Who moved

my CSM?

2014 Upwardly

mobile

2014 The Rise of the App

2015 Email fights back

2015 A confederation

of platforms

2015 The Productivity

Paradox

SESSION 3HOW HAVE THESE CHANGES

AFFECTED YOUR SOLUTIONS?

Hannah Unsworth

SharePoint Consultant

BrightStarr

TREND OF 2014

Enterprise Social

Our intranet solution wasn't effective. We had a real business incentive to improve it.

Toby Jones, Internal Communications Manager at RFU

2Wanted to raise

their game

3Uphold & live by

core values

The RFU journey: Their key drivers:

1Rugby World Cup

2015 on home soil

The RFU journey: What were their goals?

Allow people to

collaborate easily

Unify geographically

spread workforce

improve employee

engagement

Improve business

process

Support Rugby World

Cup 2015

FOR STAFF• Connecting people

• Internal comms is now

something that belongs

to everyone

• Good looking and

easy to navigate

• Sharing of best practise

RFU Success

FOR ORGANISATION• Better capacity to tell story

• Underpins RFU’s goal for Modern

Brand & Fine Reputation

• Stronger picture to whole business

• RFU employees notice a positive

change in how RFU communicates

• Working smarter - New ways

of doing things

TREND OF 2014

Mobile

In the case of Abt Associates we had to ensure the functionality within AGI met up with the ease of access that a responsive, mobile friendly design would offer.

Glen Chambers, SVP Operations At BrightStarr

2Technology to adapt to their

complex global business

Abt Associates story: Their key drivers

160% of employees

unable to access

intranet

Abt Associates story: Project objectives

Give staff access to

resources so they can

continue to develop

and grow

Enable staff to easily

connect to share ideas

and knowledge

Make it easy for staff to

do their work from

anywhere

12,700 employees

now with access to

intranet

functionality using

responsive design

2Breathes life

into project

collaboration

3Employees

working smarter,

drawing on skills &

expertise at their

disposal

4An Intranet that

reflects their

brand and

achievements

SESSION 4WHAT’S HOT FOR ENTERPRISE IN 2015?

Sam Hassani

Principal Consultant (MCM)

BrightStarr

PREDICTION 1:

The weaving

together of

disparate Apps

Yammer

wins!

Skype

surfaced

Delve is

just the

beginning

PREDICTION 2:

Strengthened

mobile security

Mobile first world…

Apply security policies

and device settings

Preserve Office 365

productivity experience

Rights Management

Services for Office Apps

Mobile Device Management (MDM) in Office 365?

PREDICTION 3:

What’s next for SharePoint On-premises?

Next version of SharePoint on-premises

due mid-late 2015

We’re expecting a subset of Office 365 capabilities but…

Video

Portal

Unlimited Storage

(OneDrive

for Business and

Team Sites)

We’re committed to another on-premises release of

SharePoint. We recognize that many of our SharePoint

customers will continue to have large on-premises

deployments for many years, but we’re investing to help

customers easily manage hybrid environments so that

they can connect their on-premises farms to their in-the-

cloud social network.

Jared Spataro

Today we have Hybrid Search, Business Connectivity Services, Social experiences.

Improved

Hybrid

Experiences

From query

federation to

remote crawling

LIKE ‘Contoso Sales’

LIKE ‘Contoso Sales’

Improved

Hybrid

Experiences

Thank You!

SESSION 5UNILY DEMONSTRATION

HOW TECHNOLOGY IS EVOLVING IN 2015

Melvin Lancelot

Head of Alliances, Pre Sales

BrightStarr

INTRANET IN

A BOX SOLUTION

• Unily is the cloud-based Intranet solution

that unites the very best of Microsoft’s

cloud offering in a single digital

experience

• Rapid deployment with a number of

common intranet apps

• Hosted on Office 365/ SharePoint Online

• Available for Desktop, Tablet and Mobile

What is Unily?

Unily is more

than Software

SharePoint

Services

Success

Platform

What do you

get with Unily?

Demo

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UNITED STATES

+1 888 777-6850

usa@brightstarr.com

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