kma webinar: top 10 takeaways from the 2011 sharepoint conference

“Top Ten” Takeaways from the 2011 SharePoint Conference

October 19th, 2011

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Conference Room Number: 7207908

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• Questions for Speakers? – Submit questions during webinar

• Twitter Discussion – #kmasp

• Feedback – Webinar Feedback – Next Steps/Moving Forward


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• Introductions and agenda

• About KMA and today’s presenter

• Some SPC metrics

• Top 10 takeaways

• Next steps… bringing SPC to you

• Resources and follow-up

Introduction and Agenda


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• Sara Clark, KMA

• Mike Gilronan, KMA

Your Hosts and Speakers

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Insights About the Speakers – Mike Gilronan

• Partner at KMA

• 20 years of experience in IT and Professional Services

• Focused on the Business Decision Maker point of view

• “recovering” CPA and PMP, all-around process geek


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Insights About KMA

• Founded in 1995, focused on New England • 25 employees, technical DNA • Industries: Professional Services, Life Sciences

& Financial Services • Technologies:

• SharePoint, SQL Server, Office, and Visual Studio.NET

• Specialties: • Collaboration: Portals, Websites, Communities

and Content Management • Insight: Enterprise Search and Business

Intelligence • Productivity: Forms, Workflow, Office Client

Customization


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Some SharePoint Conference Metrics


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Conference Metrics:

– 7,500 attendees

– 240 sessions

– 200 partners/vendors

SPC 2011 Metrics


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SPC 2011 Metrics

Metrics:

– Fastest Microsoft product to $1 billion, in line to be fastest to $2 billion

– 125 million licenses of SharePoint sold to date to 65,000 customers

– 700,000 SharePoint developers around the world

– 1,162 books on SP (including the only one that matters)

– Over 4,000 partners in the SharePoint ecosystem

– 93,000 people trained by partners on building SharePoint solutions

– 1,000 people working on SharePoint R&D

http://www.amazon.com/SharePoint-2010-Consultants-Handbook-Practical/dp/1453760865


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• Keynote Highlight/Metric:

– 14 TB of data

– load of 7,500 concurrent users

– restored in ~40 seconds from full farm failover during keynotes

SPC 2011 Metrics

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T op en akeaways


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10. Viral Adoption Strategies (from customer “how we did it” sessions)

Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011


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10. Viral Adoption Strategies

9. FAST Search (aka Search)


DID YOU KNOW: Searching on the string “#” in FAST Search returns all results in the index? (108 million items in .02 seconds in keynote demo – wow!)


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Insights 9. FAST Search, aka “Search”


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9. FAST Search (Search)

8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)



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7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)



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• "Find-o-meter" web part on search page

– 20 responses/day

– 455 staff contributed

– 10 best bets created/week

7. (Usability and Adoption) – Findability is Key


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• "Find-o-meter" web part and responses to users who assist with tuning of content

7. (Usability and Adoption) – Findability is Key


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6. Development – More Than Managed Code (Development)



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• One example: SPServices jQuery library – http://spservices.codeplex.com/

– Requires no client-side code

– Option for Office365

– Free

• Read “The Middle Tier Manifesto” for more details

• @sympmarc and @mrackley

6. (Development) – It’s Not (Just) About Managed Code

http://spservices.codeplex.com/


http://www.sympraxisconsulting.com/Public Documents/White Paper - The Middle Tier Manifesto - Edition 1.pdf

http://www.sympraxisconsulting.com/Public Documents/White Paper - The Middle Tier Manifesto - Edition 1.pdf





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Client: “We don't have a Dev farm.” Consultant: “No, actually, you don't have a Production farm."

• Best random quote/tweet of the conference:

OK – halfway there


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5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting (Business Intelligence)



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Insights 5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service

Reporting (Business Intelligence)


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10. Viral Adoption Strategies 9. FAST Search (Search) 8. Training for Provisioning (Governance) 7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption) 6. Development – More Than Managed Code

(Development) 5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting

(Business Intelligence) 4. SQL Denali + SSRS (Business Intelligence)



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• Some high points:

– Subscribe to data changes, not just report changes (alerts on KPI, for example)

– Demo: PowerPivot add-in for Excel, Twitter analytics mashup

4. (Business Intelligence) – SQL Denali + SSRS


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5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting (Business Intelligence)

4. SQL Denali + SSRS (Business Intelligence)

3. Get Ready for v.Next (IT Pro)



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• Anticipating public beta of v.next (Office 15) in late 2012

– Did we mention SPC12 is already announced for Las Vegas, next November?

• Migration and upgrade path

– One hop simpler than two…

3. (IT Pro) – Get Ready for v.next


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10. Viral Adoption Strategies 9. FAST Search (Search) 8. Training for Provisioning (Governance) 7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption) 6. Development – More Than Managed Code (Development) 5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting (Business

Intelligence) 4. SQL Denali + SSRS (Business Intelligence) 3. Get Ready for v.Next (IT Pro) 2. Enterprise-ready (IT Pro)



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• On stage: 14TB full farm failover

• MSFT: “How we did it” (36 TB of data)

• Customer case studies: BIG data

2. (IT Pro) – Enterprise-Ready. Today.

Mediterranean Shipping Company

• 22 Tb stored in SQL Server

• 396,907 transactions per minute

• 210 billion transaction per year

Yahoo! • Petabytes in Hadoop

• 3.5 Billon events, 1.2TB processed a day

• 16 TB Cube

Source: slide deck from SPC249: BI Roadmap


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10. Viral Adoption Strategies 9. FAST Search (Search) 8. Training for Provisioning (Governance) 7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption) 6. Development – More Than Managed Code (Development) 5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting (Business

Intelligence) 4. SQL Denali + SSRS (Business Intelligence) 3. Get Ready for v.Next (IT Pro) 2. Enterprise-ready. (IT Pro) 1. BCS to the Cloud. (Integration)



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• Read/write from SharePoint in the cloud to line-of-business applications via web services (cloud to ground or cloud to cloud).

1. (Integration + Cloud) – Two-way BCS Integration with Office365.


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• KMA SPC Recap Live Event – DEEP DIVE

– 11/18 in Waltham, MA Sign up HERE

– 11/29 in Cambridge, MA Sign up HERE

• Mike’s Blog articles (six-post series):

– http://kmamikegil-blog.kma-llc.net/2011/10/index.html

• Chris McNulty Blog articles (three-post series):

– http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge/2011/10/sharepoint-conference-2011-day-three-wrapup.html

• SharePoint Conference – Official Site

– http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/default.aspx

Placeholder -- Resources

http://info.kma-llc.net/kma-event-sharepoint-conference-recap---waltham?&t=68557

http://info.kma-llc.net/kma-event-sharepoint-conference-recap-cambridge/

http://kmamikegil-blog.kma-llc.net/2011/10/index.html






http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge/2011/10/sharepoint-conference-2011-day-three-wrapup.html















http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/default.aspx

http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/default.aspx


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• How to get (and share) a copy of today’s slides

• How to continue the conversation and provide feedback:

Thank you to our attendees!!!

In Closing…

Name Twitter E-mail Blog Phone

Mike Gilronan

@mikegil Mgilronan [at]kma-llc[dot]net http://kmamikegil-blog.kma-llc.net/ 781.693.6823

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• Q&A

• Evaluations

• Next steps

Placeholder – in closing

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THANK YOU!!!




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