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SharePoint 2013

Office App Store

ROI through Adoption

DIY SharePoint

Dan Barker, Global Product ManagerDell Software

How the SharePoint App Store Positions Your Company for World Domination

How the SharePoint App Store Positions Your Company for World Domination

Dan Barker, Global Product Manager, Dell Software

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• PM and evangelist for Quick Apps for SharePoint

• Worked with SharePoint since the “Tahoe” days

• Stints as a software engineer, systems architect financial & data analyst, and general manager

• Prior work at Progressive Insurance & Crowe Horwath

• Executive MBA from the Nance School of Business at Cleveland State University

• Live in the greater Seattle, Washington area

Who is Dan Barker?

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Agenda

• Discuss options for world domination via SharePoint

• Choose one

• Eat

• Commence World Domination

• Tweet, FaceBook, Instagram, LinkedIn the process

• Get promoted

• Email / tweet me about your success

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The Real Agenda

• What the heck is the App Store

• How will it impact my environment

• How will it impact me

• 6 reasons why you should be empowered through the App Store

• Demo

• Q&A

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What the heck is the App Store?

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The SharePoint App Store

It’s like the Apple App Store

But in SharePoint (2013) and for the enterprise

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The SharePoint App Store

• Available on Office.Microsoft.com

• Integrated into SharePoint 2013

• Apps extend native capability

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The SharePoint App StoreExtending Native Capability

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The SharePoint App StoreAn Example App: Dell Social Hub

• Extends social features

• Pulls in external social content

• Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, Yammer

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How will the app store impact me and my environment?

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App Store Impacts

• Prior to SharePoint 2013 acquiring tools was difficult

– Requires server access to install/use– Installing/building apps is risky

• For the first time YOU can install and use an app…

• World Domination first steps….

• Sometimes it’s the small things

We are going to be so productive it’s not even funny….wait.. yes it is….

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App Store Impacts

• Easy access to available tools (“Apps”)– The App Store is a public storefront of tools

• App Catalog is another option– App Catalog makes internally developed custom apps available to

everyone (Reuse!)

• Risk has been eliminated– App store apps are not installed on the server = Less risk!– Like Mafia Wars on FaceBook

• Purchasing or Requesting abilities– Powerful organic pressure– Crowdsourcing for tools – Request what you need!– Power in numbers– Improves the purchasing process

• You now have more influence!

• The App Store helps maximize the investment

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“By 2014, (citizen developers) will build at least 25% of new business applications.” – Gartner, “Using Gartner's Reference Architecture to Improve Architectural Decisions,” Mike Rollings, December 11, 2012.

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Who is a Citizen Developer?

You are!

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What is a SharePoint “citizen developer”

• End users who are not professional developers, but who create business solutions – for themselves and their groups – to help them perform their jobs more efficiently– Also called “power users”

• Used to be called “Rogue IT” (but it doesn't have to be!)

Citizen developers do … Citizen developers don’t …

Create solutions with user-facing tools like Excel, Excel Services or PowerPivot

Write code using tools like Visual Studio

Have some technical knowledge Have custom development knowledge or experience

Understand their business needs Always know what tools are available

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A root problem with SharePointUsers need SharePoint to do more

• SharePoint out of the box doesn’t meet business requirements– Specific functional needs …

– Forms– Data views / filtering– Navigation– Charting/BI

– … Or composite solutions

• Citizen developers (CDs) lack training and experience required to self serve– Or don’t have rights to customize if tools are locked

down

• CDs need enhancements done yesterday

• Limitations are usually realized real-time

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Your organizations face a choiceShut down citizen development or embrace it

Too risky - Shut it down• Burden on IT to control and monitor this

rogue development • Performance issues if solutions are not

built and deployed properly • Lack of consistency across solutions,

which lead to support and upgrade headaches

Benefits abound – bring it on!

• Increased user adoption• Better business productivity• Reduced IT burden• Improved SharePoint ROI• Enablement• And more!

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6 reasons why you should be empowered as a Citizen Developer

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• Eliminates back and forth between IT and business to define project requirements

• Ensures faster and more accurate delivery

• Reduces turnaround time for updates and change control

• You understand your needs/requirements best– No amount of scoping will identify all

nuances

1. Puts business solutions in the hands of the business – You!

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• It’s gonna happen anyways (“Rogue IT”)– Does not have to be negative!

• Governance, training and proper tools are key

• Look for supportable and upgradeable options ensure long-term value

• Helps avoid discovering “Worst Practices”– Example: building and testing in prod– Example: using InfoPath client solutions

2. Results in solutions IT can support and encourage

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3. Reduces the IT burden

• Empowered CDs can make their own customizations– quickly and confidently– without posing risk to the environment– in a way that IT can support and maintain

• Frees IT staff to focus on important projects that only they are qualified to take on – especially important to free expensive

developer resources

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4. Enhances the IT and business relationshipBuilding better connection points

• You can build your own solutions on your own timelines

• IT can helps citizen developers learn SharePoint techniques—and vice-versa

• Allows the business and IT to work together using a common platform and toolset

• It’s about getting things done as efficiently as possible

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4. Enhances the IT and business relationship

• Citizen development improves organizational agility– IT can facilitate this process

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5. Improves SharePoint adoption

• As a citizen developer you create solutions that make SharePoint more useful and engaging

• Successful citizen development leads more users to become citizen developers

• Maximizes the SharePoint investment

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6. Harness the SharePoint 2013 App StoreMicrosoft is creating opportunities for citizen development• New app model enables users to

install apps from both Office and SharePoint 2013) – potentially without ever calling IT

• Public and private enterprise app catalog options

• App Store benefits– No server-side install = no risk– Cloud-ready– Bringing solutions directly to the

business users

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How does this position my company for World Domination?Doing the everyday better than anyone else

• Connecting the dots

• Tracking & transparency

• Trends

• Opportunities for improvement

• New more efficient ways to do things

• Like gears in motion

• Result: Address bottlenecks

• Result: Faster Speed to Market

• Result: Cost savings

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Final ThoughtsQuick summary

1. The app store extends native SharePoint capabilities

2. It’s like the Apple store for but the enterprise

3. You can purchase & install apps

4. You now have organic influence

5. You should be empowered and now you know why

6. You are the gears of the enterprise

7. Make your group, team, organization better

8. Dominate your competition as a result

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Questions?

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Additional resources

• Dan’s Contact information

– Email: d_barker@dell.com– Twitter: @BarkingD– LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbarker– Blog: http://danbarker.typepad.com/changeplane/

White Paper: 6 Reasons to Empower Your SharePoint Citizen Developers

http://www.quest.com/whitepaper/six-reasons-to-empower-your-sharepoint-citizen-developers819267.aspx

Thank you