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Silverlight and SharePoint – Venable LLP

Darrin Dyson

Director of Development and Systems Integration

Venable LLP

June 16, 2011

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Brief overview of our firm and our current

environment

Silverlight and SharePoint Overview

Using Silverlight and SharePoint Together

Demo

Q&A

agenda

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our law firm

AM LAW 100

7 Offices all located in the US

548 attorneys

600 support staff

65+ it staff

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our environment

Windows XP

Office 2003

OpenText DM 5.1.0.5 (5.3 Server)

MOSS 2007/SharePoint 2011

Workshare Professional

pdfConverter

Over 50 additional apps

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data, data everywhere…

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SharePoint Environment

SharePoint 2007 Farm

SharePoint 2010 Farm

SharePoint is Running in Hybrid

Mode

Firm Portal3 Site Collections

Legacy Applications Custom ASP.NET

Handshake Web Parts

Copy of Firm Portal (Conversion Testing)New Application Development

Silverlight

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business drivers

Dynamic and richer content

Minimize clicks

Targeted information and data based on profile

Update of legacy applications

New tools to promote business automation

Integration with new applications and back end

systems

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Silverlight

Natural platform for Line of Business applications– RIA Services– WCF

Extremely rich user interfaces

.NET Framework

3rd Party controls and toolkits

Wide spread community support

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SharePoint 2011

Full Visual Studio Support

Web Services (listdata.svc, legacy .asmx web

services)

Client Object Model

Server Object Model

LINQ to SharePoint

Event Receivers

Timer Jobs

SharePoint Designer

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Silverlight and SharePoint with Visual Studio

Full lifecycle development from Visual Studio

SilverLight Web Part– Library Deployment– Solution deployment

Extensions– SPMetal– BDC

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current projects

revamp of intranet portal– Reconstitute html based web parts from

Handshake– Collapse web pages into Silverlight apps or

web parts

rebuild of current client applications– Project Mainstay

• Replace “DocHub”• Replace “eRoom”

– Engagement Letters• Replace “index cards” and legacy access

database

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current projects ctd.

Experience Manager

T & E Docket– Handles creation of tasks and notifications to

attorneys

News Aggregation Tool– Submission and Publication of firm events,

announcements, news (internal/external)

IT Focused– Change System– Help Desk Tool– MAC, UMI

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next

Revamp intranet portal to leverage Silverlight– Eye towards Silverlight 5

Finish SharePoint 2011 rollout

Implement dashboards for executives, division

managers and practice group leaders

Records and DMS Engagements

Engage with business analyst to leverage K2

BlackPearl investment

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summary

Develop a strategy that leverages the firms

strategic plan

It’s about the data

Open your mind and lose your inhibitions

Partner with technology companies that share

your vision

Revamp and revise

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the road ahead for ABC CORPORATION

Questions??