Navigating the Evolving Social Capabilities in SharePoint and Office 365Christian Buckley Office 365 MVP + CMO at Beezy

Christian BuckleyChief Marketing Officer

www.buckleyplanet.com@buckleyplanet

cbuck@beezy.net

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Beezy is the premier enterprise collaboration solution for Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint, extending the feature set and improving the user experience for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments. We are on a mission to transform the way people work, and to help employees be more connected, innovative, and happy. Learn more at www.beezy.net or @FollowBeezy on Twitter.

The evolution of SharePoint as a platform

SharePoint Growth & Evolution

SharePoint Releases Metadata

Content

www.Microsoft.com

Collaboration and productivity are being transformed

Collaboration has evolved

What have we learned?

“Collaboration” and “Social” are synonymous

Different teams gravitate toward different tools, different collaboration approaches

The next generation of employees

expect social to be ubiquitous

Collaboration is about finding the right “fit”

Mobility has become business-critical

Employees are better at self-monitoring than we thought

at self-

We need to try things, iterate, and innovate

We need to try things, iterate, and innovate

The power of social is not about the technology at all

Success = People + Culture

Intelligent, Social, Mobile, and Ready-to-go

Patterns for Successful Collaboration

Discover

Follow-up

Recover

What’s going on?

What’s interesting?

Things I did

Universe of user needs

Start page My profile

Discover

Follow-up

Recover

Other’s profile

Discover

Common pattern in social network interfaces

Start page My profile

Discover

Follow-up

Other’s profile

Discover

Recover

Discover

Discover

Example: Twitter

Start page My profile

Discover

Follow-up

Other’s profile

Recover

Discover

Discover

Discover

Example: LinkedIn

Start page My profile

Discover

Follow-up

Other’s profile

Recover

Discover

Example: Facebook

Start page My profile

Discover

Follow-up

Other’s profile

Recover

Discover

Example: Google+

Start page My profile Employee profile

Follow-up

Recover

Discover

Discover

Find the patterns, keep it simple

Users want to follow-up on “the stuff they care about” But it is good to help them discover new things.

User develops blindness

Disc

over

Follow-up

Translating Patterns into Strategy

How is Microsoft supporting these patterns in collaboration?

PRODUCTIVITY!PRODUCTIVITY!PRODUCTIVITY!PRODUCTIVITY!PRODUCTIVITY!PRODUCTIVITY!

To simplify the interface into SharePointTo better align end user activities with the needs of the businessTo better streamline business processesTo get more out of SharePoint

Why focus on Productivity?

YammerOffice GraphDelve / BoardsInline SocialNextGen PortalsOffice 365 VideoOffice 365 GroupsOffice 365 PlannerOffice 2016Skype for Business

Content and signals across Office 365 auto-populating the Office Graph for teams.

Insights derived with machine learning to help YOU get the job done right NOW

Office Graph ExchangeSharePointYammerLync

Personalized search results and content curation made possible through Office Graph.

Find what is relevant more quickly and easily, and organize it your way.

Delve and Boards

GroupsUnifies People, Profiles, Conversations, Emails, Calendars, and Files across Office 365 and beyond.

Provides you with a rich and seamless collaboration experience across applications

Inline SocialExtends social collaboration to Office 365, Dynamics, and other apps, services, and line-of-business systems.

Enables you to participate in social conversations from the tools of your choice

Inline Social

YammerProvides a social newsfeed for teams, and a quick and easy platform for creating internal and external communities

Unlocks information silos from email and team sites, democratizes communication

Why Collaboration and Productivity are important to your business

Christian BuckleyChief Marketing Officerand Office 365 MVP

cbuck@beezy.net@buckleyplanet/IN/ChristianBuckley

Thank you!