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Do you need SharePoint? - What an enterprise buyer needs to understand about Microsoft, SharePoint and Office 365 SharePoint is often taken as a given, but there are many areas where it comes up short. Also Microsoft’s focus has strongly turned to Office 365 and that also has many implications to current SharePoint customers. You could even argue that whether on-premise SharePoint has a future at all. In any case right now you should choose very carefully the areas for SharePoint implementations. Presentation takes a critical approach to SharePoint’s future roadmap and evaluates Microsoft’s Office 365 future plans. SharePoint’s strongest areas will be reviewed, but also those areas will be highlighted where SharePoint is lacking compared to competitors. Presentation also discusses the strongest competitors right now - and what competitors Microsoft sees as most relevant right now. Key takeaways: - Understand the weaknesses and strengths of SharePoint - Understand Microsoft’s business goals for SharePoint and Office 365 - Get insights to future development of SharePoint and “safe implementation areas"
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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 partner selections for large projects
- Founded 2012, growing
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Speaker’s background
• Technology advisor in web & extranet & intranet projects– Extensive background in Microsoft tools, involved in SharePoint projects since
2007– Also a lot of project experience with Oracle’s systems and open source systems
like Liferay and Drupal– Most of the customers are large organizations headquartered in Finland
(typically over 1,000 employees)– Note: Finland is a Microsoft & open source country (so I am biased in some
ways)
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Agenda
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Microsoft, SharePoint and
Office 365 from a business
perspective
Safe scenarios for SharePoint
implementations
Recommendations for enterprise
buyers
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Microsoft as a company
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Microsoft as a company
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1. Microsoft builds tools for office workers / knowledge workers.
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
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SharePoint’s history: Part 1
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• Started as a document management system
• Microsoft’s point of view: place to save Office documents
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SharePoint’s history: Part 2
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• Evolved into a portal system with web publishing capabilities
• Added dozens of “enterprise” features including reports, records management, search, and so on
• Microsoft’s point of view: compete against portal vendors and take over the intranet market
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SharePoint today
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The good old SharePoint 2013
Document management
Simple, social intranets
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple custom applications
Dashboards for business teams
Partner extranets (document heavy)
Enterprise social channel (Newsfeed)
The good old SharePoint 2013
Document management
Simple, social intranets
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple custom applications
Dashboards for business teams
Partner extranets (document heavy)
Enterprise social channel (Newsfeed)
Complex, global intranets
Complex, custom applications
Web content management
The good old SharePoint 2013
Document management
Simple, social intranets
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple custom applications
Dashboards for business teams
Partner extranets (document heavy)
Enterprise social channel (Newsfeed)
Complex, global intranets
Complex, custom applications
Web content management
Logos of competitors are examples – they are not representative of real market position
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Office 365 = new core business of Microsoft
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Office 365 = new core business
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• “Office as a service”• App Store for the office• No major
customizations, only fairly small “add-ons”
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Office 365 today
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Document management & editing
Simple, social intranets
Enterprise social channel (Yammer)
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple dashboards for business teams
Simple partner extranets (document heavy)
Email, calendar, Lync, etc.
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Office 365 today
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Document management & editing
Simple, social intranets
Enterprise social channel (Yammer)
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple custom applications (?)
Simple dashboards for business teams
Simple partner extranets (document heavy)
Single-sign-on point for the enterprise (?)
Email, calendar, Lync, etc.
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Office 365 today
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Document management & editing
Simple, social intranets
Enterprise social channel (Yammer)
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple custom applications (?)
Simple dashboards for business teams
Simple partner extranets (document heavy)
Single-sign-on point for the enterprise (?)
Email, calendar, Lync, etc.
Logos of competitors are examples – they are not representative of real market position
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Comparison of SharePoint and Office 365
Comparison
Document management & editing Simple,
social intranets
Enterprise social channel (Yammer)
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple dashboards for business teams
Simple partner extranets (document heavy)
Email, calendar, Lync, etc.
Document management Simple, social
intranets
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple custom applications
Dashboards for business teams
Partner extranets (document heavy)
Enterprise social channel (Newsfeed)
Comparison
Document management & editing Simple,
social intranets
Enterprise social channel (Yammer)
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple dashboards for business teams
Simple partner extranets (document heavy)
Email, calendar, Lync, etc.
Document management Simple, social
intranets
Document-centric collaboration
Report browsing
Simple custom applications
Dashboards for business teams
Partner extranets (document heavy)
Enterprise social channel (Newsfeed)
Complex, global intranets
Complex, custom applications
Web content management
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Recommendations for enterprise buyers
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Recommendations
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Finally, as an enterprise buyer, what should you take home from this?
1. Microsoft is not going to care about you very much for the next five years or so2. SharePoint 2015 will most likely be just a fancy service package3. Remember: Most of Microsoft’s professional service partners are in trouble
right now (especially the big ones) – you should look for specialized ones4. Office 365 will be an office platform for knowledge workers. The more you are
a manufacturing/customer service heavy organization, you should also evaluate 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.
- Slides are already available in SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/perttutolvanen
- Twitter: @perttutolvanen and @NorthPatrol- [email protected] http://www.northpatrol.com
