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“Top Ten” Takeaways from the 2011 SharePoint Conference
October 19th, 2011
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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
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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
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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)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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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10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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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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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)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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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
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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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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)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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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)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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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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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)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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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)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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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)
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
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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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Insights
• 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
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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
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THANK YOU!!!