Christian Buckley is the Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler. He has experience at Microsoft working on the Microsoft Managed Services team and in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, he co-founded and sold a collaboration software company and helped design a SharePoint-like collaboration platform at another startup. He is the co-author of a book on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and three books on software configuration management.
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Build or Buy: The Benefits of Partner Solutions for SharePoint
2. Christian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler
• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server
• Most recently at Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed
Services team (now Office365-Dedicated) and then
Advertising Operations
• Prior to Microsoft, was a senior consultant, working in the
software, supply chain, and grid technology spaces focusing
on collaboration
• Co-founded and sold a collaboration software company to
Rational Software. At another startup (E2open), helped
design, build, and deploy a SharePoint-like collaboration
platform (Collaboration Manager), onboarding numerous
high-tech manufacturing companies, including
Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), and Seagate
• Co-authored ‘Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and
Implementing Real-World Projects’ link (MS Press, March
2012) and 3 books on software configuration management.
• Twitter: @buckleyplanet Blog: buckleyplanet.com Email: cbuck@axceler.com
5. Is it better to build your own
solutions in-house, or to buy
from the partner ecosystem?
14. 1. Are you able to map the features to your
business requirements?
16. 1. Are you able to map the features to your
business requirements?
2. Do you understand the out of the box
functionality?
18. 1. Are you able to map the features to your
business requirements?
2. Do you understand the out of the box
functionality?
3. Have you considered what can be / should
be managed on prem versus in the cloud?
20. 1. Are you able to map the features to your
business requirements?
2. Do you understand the out of the box
functionality?
3. Have you considered what can be / should
be managed on prem versus in the cloud?
4. Do you have the right partners?
Share story of xango, insistence on saving money versus going with a known solution. Wanted to save time and money, the allure of the fast talking vendor solution that could solve all problems. Failure to launch 3 times, delaying the project and, ultimately, went back to the proven technology which cost more than originally estimated due to the mistakes, plus the additional time and lost face with customers and internal organizations, and the CIO was fired.Line of business app integration (talked with a friend who works for a paper mill company, shades of Dundermifflin, who was telling me about the proprietary systems that run their mills worldwide, and wanting to add an interface to these tools within sharepoint. They worked with the software team from their vendor to help integrate rather than develop a simple view into the tool without any value add, without thinking about the user experience and business capability)