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"

1. Do you need
SharePoint?
- What an enterprise buyer needs to understand
about Microsoft, SharePoint and Office 365
Perttu Tolvanen, Web & CMS Expert, @perttutolvanen
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2. Advisor in buying web projects and intranets
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- 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

3. 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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4. Agenda
Microsoft,
SharePoint and
Office 365 from a
business
perspective
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Safe scenarios for
SharePoint
implementations
Recommendations
for enterprise
buyers

5. Microsoft as a company
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6. 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.

7. Short history of SharePoint
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8. 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

9. 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

10. SharePoint today
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11. The good old SharePoint 2013
Document
management
Simple, social
intranets
Document-centric
collaboration
Simple custom
applications
Report
browsing
Dashboards for
business teams
Partner
extranets
(document heavy)
Enterprise
social channel
(Newsfeed)

12. The good old SharePoint 2013
Document
management
Simple, social
intranets
Document-centric
collaboration
Web content
management
Simple custom
applications
Report
browsing
Dashboards for
business teams
Partner
extranets
(document heavy)
Enterprise
social channel
(Newsfeed)
Complex,
global
intranets
Complex,
custom
applications

13. The good old SharePoint 2013
Document
management
Simple, social
intranets
Document-centric
collaboration
Web content
management
Simple custom
applications
Report
browsing
Dashboards for
business teams
Partner
extranets
(document heavy)
Enterprise
social channel
(Newsfeed)
Complex,
global
intranets
Complex,
custom
applications
Logos of competitors are
examples – they are not
representative of real market
position

14. Office 365 = new core business of Microsoft
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15. 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”

16. 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
Email,
calendar, Lync,
etc.
Simple
partner
extranets
(document heavy)

17. 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.

18. 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

19. Comparison of SharePoint and Office 365
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20. Comparison
Document
management
& editing Simple,
social
intranets
Enterprise
social channel
(Yammer)
Document-centric
collaboration
Report
browsing
Simple
dashboards
for business
teams
Email,
calendar,
Lync, etc.
Simple
partner
extranets
(document heavy)
Document
management Simple, social
intranets
Document-centric
collaboration
Simple
custom
applications
Report
browsing
Dashboards
for business
teams
Partner
extranets
(document heavy)
Enterprise
social channel
(Newsfeed)

21. Comparison
Document
management
& editing Simple,
social
intranets
Enterprise
social channel
(Yammer)
Document-centric
collaboration
Report
browsing
Simple
dashboards
for business
teams
Email,
calendar,
Lync, etc.
Simple
partner
extranets
(document heavy)
Document
management Simple, social
intranets
Document-centric
collaboration
Simple
custom
applications
Report
browsing
Dashboards
for business
teams
Partner
extranets
(document heavy)
Enterprise
social channel
(Newsfeed)
Complex, global
intranets
Complex,
custom
applications
Web content
management

22. Recommendations for enterprise buyers
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23. Recommendations
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 so
2. SharePoint 2015 will most likely be just a fancy service package
3. Remember: Most of 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 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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24. - Slides are already available in SlideShare:
http://www.slideshare.net/perttutolvanen
- Twitter: @perttutolvanen and
@NorthPatrol
- perttu.tolvanen@northpatrol.com
- http://www.northpatrol.com
Thank you.
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