Mike Acord's presentation to FVSPUG on SharePoint - more than just Intranets

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Fox Valley SharePoint and Business Intelligence Users Group
Wednesday March 21, 2012

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Agenda
Agenda
• Introduction
• Current Uses
• Benefits of expanding use
• Public Facing Website
• Forms/Workflow
• Business Intelligence
• Partner Collaboration
• Enterprise Search
• Custom Applications

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Introduction
Introduction: Presenter
Mike Acord, Avastone Technologies LLC
SharePoint/Business Intelligence Lead

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Introduction
Introduction: Avastone Technologies LLC
Partner with Hartland Business Systems, Little Chute
• Custom development
• Websites and Content Management Systems
• Mobile Development
• SharePoint
• Business Intelligence
• MS Dynamics GP
• MS Dynamics CRM

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Current Uses
Common Uses of SharePoint
• Intranets
• Document Management
• Calendar
• Task list
• Discussion board
• Announcements

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Benefits
Benefits of Expanding Use
• Familiar
• Common security
• Common navigation
• Single place
• Uses existing infrastructure

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Internet Sites
Benefits of using SharePoint for Public facing websites
• Same server infrastructure
• Single copy of documents
• Familiar content editing
• Can be relatively inexpensive for schools/government/non-profits

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Internet Sites
Components of SharePoint for Internet Sites
• SharePoint Server for Internet Sites
• Custom Master Page
• Page Layouts
• SharePoint Designer

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Internet Sites
Internet Site Examples

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Forms/Workflow
Benefits of using SharePoint for Forms/Workflow
• Improve/automate process flow
• Visibility into status of items
• Quick turnaround
• Email notifications
• Examples
Expense Report New Employee On-boarding
Timesheet Document Approvals
IT Request
Maintenance Request

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Forms/Workflow
Components of SharePoint for Forms/Workflow
• Out of the box (OTB) workflows
• OOTB forms
• InfoPath/InfoPath Forms Services
• SharePoint Designer

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Forms/Workflow
Components of SharePoint for Forms/Workflow

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Forms/Workflow
Forms/Workflow Examples

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Business Intelligence
Benefits of using SharePoint for Business Intelligence
• Better decision making
• Powerful analytics
• Drill down capabilities
• Ad-hoc capabilities

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Business Intelligence
Components of SharePoint for Business Intelligence
• PerformancePoint Services
• Excel services
• PowerPivot for SharePoint
• Integrated reporting services

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Forms/Workflow
Business Intelligence Examples

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Partner Collaboration
Benefits of using SharePoint for Partner Collaboration
• Secure
• Easy way to share documents and information with clients, vendors,
and other partners

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Partner Collaboration
Components of SharePoint for Partner Collaboration
• Forms-based authentication
• Separate URL

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Partner Collaboration
Partner Collaboration Examples

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Enterprise Search
Benefits of using SharePoint for Enterprise Search
• Find documents across enterprise
• Find people
• Find on internet
• Find in file shares

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Partner Collaboration
Components of SharePoint for Enterprise Search
• Search Server
• FAST Search Server
• People search

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Partner Collaboration
Enterprise Search Examples

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Custom Applications
Benefits of using SharePoint for Custom Applications
• Single user interface: navigation, use, security, etc
• Framework already provided

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Custom Applications
Components of SharePoint for Custom Applications
• SharePoint Designer
• Visual Studio/.Net
• JavaScript/html
• Business Connectivity
Services
• Web Parts

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Custom Applications
Components of SharePoint for Custom Applications

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Custom Applications
Custom Application Examples

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Questions
Other uses
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Questions
Questions
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Thank You
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http://www.avastonetech.com