Business drivers for upgrading to SharePoint 2010

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2. 17K+ Customers, 100M Licenses
Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrants,
Forrester WaveTM
Continued Platform and Application
Innovation
4,000+ Partners Today across Collaboration,
Content Management and Search
“SharePoint is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft’s history... And this is just the
beginning: SharePoint continues to grow as customers are just beginning to apply it to
a wide array of business issues and processes.”
- AMR RESEARCH, APRIL 22, 2008
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3. Make adoption even easier
First-class user experience across PC, Browser and Phone
Invest in even more application functionality
Out of the box integration
Greater Extensibility and Interoperability
Familiar tools and integration with Line of Business data
Continue investing in IT and Developer
Manageability and Lifecycle
Enterprise-class manageability & Application Lifecycle Management
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4. Business Collaboration Platform
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5. Connect and Empower People
Site Customizationable to edit, theme and publish
Familiar User Interface
Intuitive Users need to Experience
Challenge: Editing be Screen Shots
SharePoint sites easily and quickly, without involving IT (Click to Expand)
New capabilities:
The Office Ribbon User Interface, now part of SharePoint 2010,
provides users with a familiar and rich user experience that Familiar User
Interface
maximizes productivity and minimizes training.
Wiki-style editing makes creating and updating SharePoint sites
easier and more efficient
Web site branding is easier and more dynamic using the new
Project engine and master page redirection
theme Easy Editing
Manager
SharePoint Designer 2010 is easier to use with modifications being
reusable across different Web sites which gives more people access
and enables enterprise reapplication
Scenario
Potential savings/efficiency gains: Users save time updating
collaboration sites. IT resources are freed-up from supporting users
Set Upload Data
Use Apply Color
Create Site
with basic updates and Permissions
publishing rich-media Publish
and add info Template
content
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6. Connect and Empower People
Cross Web Mobile
Office Browser Supportcontent and information more efficiently
SharePoint Workspace
Access Anywhere people,
Apps
Challenge: Interacting with Screen Shots
and effectively from everywhere and while using different devices (Click to Expand)
New capabilities:
Rich and seamless integration between SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 drives more effective SharePoint Workspace
and in-context collaboration while keeping the user within a consistent and familiar Ribbon UI
SharePoint Workspace 2010 enables site content to be taken offline and efficiently synchronized
Team Site
back (updates only), including custom lists, line-of-business data and InfoPath-based data entry
Mobile
SharePoint Mobile
SharePoint Mobile 2010 includes significant enhancements to the viewing experience of
SharePoint UI artifacts (Web Parts), the viewing and editing of Office content and support of
multiple mobile OSs 042 440 5280
Firefox and Safari Web browsers are now supported and mobile users can view, edit and add
Cross Browser Support
new content broadening the usability platform and improving the access from anywhere
experience
Office Web Applications supplement the Office desktop clients so that content can be created,
viewed and modified using the Web browser and mobile phone, increasing flexibility and
Cross-browser New Customer apps
Office web
broadening reach
Scenario
Potential savings/efficiency gains: Time saved by enabling information workers to be
productive during a higher percentage of their work time, in addition to a competitive gain of
removing hurdles to meeting deadline and delivering value more quickly
Offline
Collaboration
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7. Connect and Empower People
People Finding Profiles topical expertise or information within
My Siteand Expertise Search
Expertise Search relevant
Challenge: and the most Screen Shots
increasingly complex enterprise structures is a time-consuming effort (Click to Expand)
Company-wide
New capabilities:
Search
Phonetic-based search, Boolean and wildcards facilitate a richer, more
efficient search experience
User defined interests and areas of responsibility enhance search My Site and Profiles
effectiveness by allowing faster discovery of expertise and knowledge
Name
Gears BIO
with Expertise Search
Tagging and metadata improve the “findability” of the most relevant
Project through metadata-driven navigation
content
Tai Lee
Manager results are refined by Social Tagging, metadata and taxonomies –
Search People Search
Engineer complexity and rapidly identifying the most relevant content
reducing
with an improved relevancy algorithm
Scenario
Potential savings/efficiency gains: Users will save time on search
activities and will be able to make faster progress after finding
relevant sources of expertise
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8. Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure
Visual Upgrade proper tools to effectively and proactively
Health Monitoring
Challenge: IT requires the Screen Shot
manage an enterprise-wide SharePoint deployment in order to ensure it’s (Click to Expand)
stability, availability and overall governance
New capabilities:
New administrative tools for monitoring server health and script
automation, along with improved reporting and usage capability lower
management cost Health
Monitoring
Improved high-availability, more flexible backup and restore and content
recovery increases reliability
Enterprise metadata management and content type syndication enables
standardization, eliminating the need for user configuration which
Visual Upgrade
simplifies adoption and eases compliance
Custom solutions can be deployed and isolated in their own “sandbox”
eliminating any negative impact on the SharePoint environment
Potential savings/efficiency gains: Reduced down-time and a more
effective use of IT resources around infrastructure management
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9. Connect and Empower People
Data VisibilityPoint Services efficient interaction, sharing
Visio Services
Excel Services tools for the quick,
Performance
Challenge: Cost effective Screen Shots
and analysis of complex business data are critical for drawing insights (Click to Expand)
and making good business decisions
Team Site Sales Team
New capabilities:
Excel Web Application allows users to create, view and modify content via Excel Services
the Web browser – increasing flexibility, broadening reach and making
Sales Team
information sharing more efficient Performance
Chart Web parts provide a wizard-driven interface to simplify the creation of
charts – increasing adoption and enabling everyone to convey the right PerformancePoint
information graphically Services
Project
PerformancePoint Services simplify dashboard creation and provide
Manager interaction with business data – easing the task of driving KPIs and
dynamic
business results Senior
Visio Services displays complex data sets and business models visually Management
Visio Services
inside the Web browser – exposing data in way that facilitates better
decision-making
Scenario
Potential savings/efficiency gains: Time saved while analyzing data in-
Enterprise Data
tandem with the productivity gains from driving business effectiveness
through KPIs, Dashboards and data-driven decision-making
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10. Rapidly Respond to Business Needs
BusinessAs SharePoint usage continues to expand, there’s a growing
Challenge: Connectivity Services
LOBto connect it to external data sources and enable information
need Data
Screen Shot
(Click to Expand)
workers to interact with Line-of-Business (LOB) data
My Artists
New capabilities: Artist Tracker > Artists
Business Connectivity
Artist SharePoint
CRM Platform
Contracts
Services Designer
Artist Name Address City State Artist Name: Mandible
The new Business Connectivity Services enable rapid integration and
Deathrattle
Artists Concourse
Jay Hamlin Trio
Down on the Bayou
Business Connectivity
Andrew Datars Quartet
updating of data from external sources, such as: CRM systems, ERP
Agent:
Concourse
Stuck in the Mud
Services
Jay Hamlin Trio
Tastes like chicken
Down on the Bayou
systems, etc. – providing enterprise utilization and integration
Mandible
Concourse
The ability of the SharePoint and Office 2010 products (Outlook,
SharePoint Workspace, Excel, etc.), Paying
Top
to interact with external data in a
Customers
bi-directional manner (read-write) and allow users to work with it Scenario
Project their collaboration context
within
Manager
SharePoint Designer 2010 makes it easy and intuitive for all users to
create read-write data connections with external data sources
Potential savings/efficiency gains: Increasing ROI on existing
investments in information systems and productivity gains in-light of
time savings, training efficiencies and better decision-making
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11. Rapidly Respond to Business Needs
CustomizedSolutions
Sandboxed Solutionstechnical expertise, need the ability to
Visual Studio Integration
Challenge: All users, regardless of Screen Shots
customize the collaboration platform to meet their specific needs (Click to Expand)
What can be deployed?
Web Parts
New capabilities:
Event Receivers
Enhancements in InfoPath Forms technology and Workflow design &
Feature Activation Receivers
deployment make it easier for end users, power users and designers to
Designer
compose customized solutions using the out-of-box SharePoint
Workflow Actions Sandboxed Solutions
capabilities
InfoPath Forms
Users’ ability to deploy their solutions is highly enhanced with
SharePoint Designer Sandboxed Solutions
Site and List Templates
Sandboxed Solutions – a way to deploy solutions without requiring IT
involvement while still protecting the availability of the platform Visual Studio
Project Integration
Manager Studio 2010 is very tightly integrated with SharePoint 2010,
Visual Restricted to Limited Resources
Production
providing better tools and an overall improved process for developing
custom SharePoint solutions – providing a more rapid and efficientCPU Time
Code end-
to-end development story SQL Execution Time
Scenario
Number Exceptions
Potential savings/efficiency gains: Significant productivity gains fromCode is Isolated
Extensibility for
Custom
Support for SharePoint
users’ ability to more quickly assemble and deploy customized solutionsdebugging
SharePoint artifacts
Programmer
Dashboard Process/Server
Separate
and from removing the burden from IT to constantly be involved in the Developer
Visual Studio
deployment every solution Scale Out
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