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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