Just a few days removed from Microsoft SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2012, it’s gratifying to me to know that a little project code named Tahoe back in 2001 has grown to bring in more than $2 billion annually in sales for Microsoft and generated an $8 billion ecosystem, according to Jared Spataro, Senior Director of SharePoint Product Marketing at Microsoft.
- New SharePoint Experience – The User Interface is redesigned in an effort to make the user experience cleaner and simpler, with quick access to newsfeed, documents, and sites as well as streamlined ways for saving documents, editing lists, sharing content, and theming sites.
- Social Networking – SharePoint 2013 adds rich new microblogging, newsfeed, community, and other social features. With the acquisition of enterprise social networking platform Yammer, it’s clear that we will see more connections between Yammer, SharePoint, and other Microsoft technologies. While it’s still early on, it’s important to give time to see how this integration plays out in the future.
- Search – Microsoft made it very clear during the keynote and throughout the conference that one of the largest investments it made in this release of SharePoint was combining FAST technology with learnings from Microsoft Research and Bing to provide more powerful navigation of documents, sites, people, conversations, videos, reports, and more.
And therein lies the rub in today’s business landscape: addressing the dichotomy of vast collaboration and security. As SharePoint continues to grow into being a total information worker productivity platform, AvePoint and its solutions for compliance, governance, and management are better positioned than ever to enable enterprise collaboration with confidence.
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