SharePoint has grown up! It will be THE web and application platform for enterprises, regardless if in the cloud or on-premise.
There were not so many new topics, that you would not have heard before. But in almost every talk and with almost every product in the exhibit halls you could see, that what was there, now had a few years time to evolve.
The Estrel Hotel and Convention Center was a great venue for the SharePoint Conference and our booth location was perfectly situated near a session room and the ever important coffee break station!
Another reason you couldn’t miss our booth was because we had the “brightest” booth in the hall. It was almost as if you were entering the Emerald City of Oz, as we lit up the show with green blinky pins, pens and cups!
So many highlights, so little time, so here are our top highlights from the week.
Back home after a few days in Berlin for the European SharePoint Conference 2011. It was a great conference with good speakers and really nice attendees. It was three days full of sessions, expert panels, shoot-outs and SharePoint fun! Thanks to everyone who was there (especially those who came to my sessions 🙂 and the team behind the conference! And as always it great to meet up with the SharePoint MVP’s, MCM’s and now even MCA’s!
Link to slides from European SharePoint Conference session
Metalogix Executive Dr. Steve Marsh to Discuss Operational Benefits of SharePoint as the Decade’s de Facto ECM Platform for Organizations
BERLIN, Oct 18, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — European SharePoint Conference — Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R), Exchange(R) and Cloud platforms, today announced that it will showcase its comprehensive suite of solutions for SharePoint management during the European SharePoint Conference 2011. Metalogix is a sponsor for this year’s event and will demonstrate its innovative content lifecycle management solutions for SharePoint from October 17-20 at the Estrel Convention Center, Berlin, Germany, in booth #P4. In addition, Dr. Steve Marsh, Metalogix EMEA product marketing manager, will present a session on SharePoint as the sole Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform for organizations.
First announced at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference earlier this month, Metalogix is showcasing for the EMEA market the powerful performance enhancements to Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 that can move more than 500GB per day for high-fidelity SharePoint upgrades. These enhancements address the operational need for speed when moving, upgrading or migrating SharePoint content, including multithreading technology, by providing radical gains in migration speeds while simultaneously ensuring high fidelity movement and integrity of SharePoint environments.
People are generally not interested in any kind of change, unless the change will help them do their job better, faster or easier – and very importantly – they need to feel this themselves! This is a fundamental principle of driving adoption of any kind of it system.
So where does this leave us with implementing SharePoint?
This are my notes of the session from Matt Berg at the European SharePoint conference 2011 in Berlin.
Access to your business information: anytime, anywhere and from any device.
There lies great potential in mobile applications for SharePoint and a big opportunity for you as a developer!
Microsoft has sold more than 125 million SharePoint licenses to over 65,000 customers. And Tim Cook gave us the following number last week: “92% of the Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying iPad”
You can expect that your customers will ask you about mobile applications if they aren’t already. Be prepared!
Let me just give you an example. Take the original SharePoint desktop and mobile version of a “Task list” on an iPhone:
I enjoyed a well-considered article from Global 360’s Derek Weeks today on CMS Wire. Derek asks, “Is it Time for a SharePoint App Store?”
It’s a great question, and one that many of us have been asking for years, with only one obvious answer: “Yes!” But perhaps the more important question is, “Who can deliver it?”
Derek says, “As millions gained access to SharePoint from IT organizations that deployed it without an explicit strategy, its out-of-the-box experience often left them disappointed.” In my opinion that statement is obvious and not even remotely controversial. It reminds me of some old creative concepts I had developed for Bamboo that never quite made it to market
Independent investment and derivative structuring division of one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups, Sanlam, replace their manual process of generating Investment Fund Policy Contracts with Document Automation solution for SharePoint
Qorus Software, an innovative IT company focused on development of document automation software for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced that Sanlam Structured Solutions (SSS), a division of one of South Africa’s leading financial services groups, Sanlam Life Insurance Limited, are using Qorus DocGeneration in their SharePoint environment. Sanlam Structured Solutions (SSS), which designs and provides structured investment and retirement solutions for the institutional and retirement fund industry, are using Qorus DocGeneration, Qorus’ flagship document generation solution for SharePoint, to reduce the time required to generate their investment fund policy contracts
