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Who am I?
• I am Amos Wachanga• A Software Engineer • A Project Lead• A Business Analyst• Who loves solving problems using technology• Who loves Sharepoint• ……and more….
About Techno Brain
We are a leading custom software application provider offering innovative IT Solutions, IT Education and Training and BPO / IT Enabled Services to NGOs, Government and Private organizations globally.
Part of out solutions include Sharepoint based solutions and implementations.
Welcome to our Headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya.)
Agenda
Main objective :- We see how Sharepoint would be used in a practical business scenarios, and how to go about creating the solution
Mini objective :- We get to see some cool Sharepoint features
The Scenario….
Management Team
Sales & Delivery Teams
Finance, Marketing &
HR Teams
IT
(Developers & Administrators)
Public
(Clients, Potential Clients)
Our Business ProblemsCollaboration
Communication
Data collection
Business workflows
Data visualization
Public Website
Data visualization
IT Governance
Reduce costs
……..and some more
Managers
Overall management of the company
Decisions on which route to take
Coordinating the overall business
Sales and Delivery
Collaboration
Must do more with less
Searching for content
…….
Finance, Marketing & Hr
Cost reduction
Get the word out
Employees are engaged
Collaboration
…..and some more
IT (Admin & Developers)
Need to provide a solution
That’s easy to manage
And maintains proper IT governance
SharepointABOUT SHAREPOINT AND NEW FEATURES IN SHAREPOINT 2013
What is Sharepoint?
Sharepoint is a software platform, not just a product
Just as MS Office is not a product, rather it’s a suite of products (MS Word, MS PowerPoint…)
Sharepoint is a large set of functionality bundled together
Sharepoint
ECM
Collaboration
Enterprise Search
Business Workflow
Business Intelligence
Portals
Sharepoint 2013 Feature-set
Enterprise Content Management
Site-level retention policies◦ Compliance levels extended to sites
◦ Policies include:
◦ Retention policy for sites and Team Mailbox associated with site
◦ Project closure and expiration policy
Discovery Center◦ Designed for managing discovery cases and holds
◦ Establishes a portal through which you can access discovery cases to conduct searches, place content on hold, and export content
Enterprise Content Management
Manage all your content on Sharepoint◦ Support for searching and exporting
content from file shares
◦ Export discovered content from Exchange and SharePoint
Team folders◦ Seemless integration of Exchange and
SharePoint to provide best of both world and end user flexibility
Web Content Management
Support the tools and workflows designers use
Variations & Content Translation
Search Engine Optimization
Cross Site Publishing
Video & Embedding
Image renditions
Clean Urls
Metadata navigation
Social
Microblogging◦ Share content, links, and media
◦ Follow people, sites, content, and conversations
Activity Feeds◦ Provides a view into recent activity
related to content, links, media, and people
SocialCommunities◦ Community sites with self-service administration
and moderation
◦ Modern community features such as achievements and reputation
Discussions◦ Modern discussion boards
Blogs◦ Client application integration
◦ Categories, comments, and moderation
My Site Host - The Landing Page
Newsfeed: shows you updates on social activities for items and people you are following:◦ People posts◦ People profile changes◦ Changes on followed documents◦ Items tagged with followed tags◦ Mentions
◦ Activities: all my activities
◦ Likes
◦ Company Feeds
My Documents
Provides a single place for users to create, share, collaborate and follow important documents
In 15 my sites have a single document library that can be user for private document as well as documents shared with others
So it is “the” document library of your personal site and a set of views that give access to content people want to be connected with:
◦ All: provides an overall view of documents in the My Documents
◦ Shared with me: provides the ability to show all documents that have been shared with you across people’s My Documents
Offline Libraries: Folder SyncProvides quick and easy access to Document Libraries in the familiar Windows Explorer experience.
◦ Works for My Documents as well as other SharePoint 15 Document Libraries.
Makes your documents accessible online, offline or in-between and your changes are automatically synced
◦ Syncs libraries across multiple devices
Overlays on files and folders so you can easily tell if your content is in sync.
Enables quick access to useful options in the System Tray area.
My Tasks
Search
New Search architecture with one unified search
Personalized search results based on search history
Rich contextual previews
Business Intelligence
Excel BI◦ Instant analysis through In Memory BI Engine
◦ Power View Add-in
Excel Services◦ Improved data exploration
◦ Field List and Field Well Support
◦ Calculated Measures and Members
◦ Enhanced Timeline Controls
Business Intelligence
PerformancePoint Services◦ Filter enhancements and Filter search
◦ Dashboard migration
◦ Support for Analysis Services Effective User
Visio Services◦ Refresh data from external sources – BCS and
Azure SQL
◦ Supports comments on Visio Drawings
◦ Maximum Cache Size service parameter
◦ Health Analyzer Rules to report on Maximum Cache Size
Mobile
Classic and Contemporary views for mobile browsers
Automatic Mobile Browser Redirection
Target different designs based on user agent string
Office Mobile Web Apps◦ Excel
◦ PowerPoint
◦ Word
Push notifications
Themes
The themes engine has been completely reworked
Everything is now based on HTML instead of proprietary format – including support for HTML5◦ PowerPoint is no longer used to create custom themes
You get much richer themes and common building blocks for customizing them◦ A background image, palette and fonts with live preview
You can “try it out” to see how it looks
Theme Gallery
This is what the new theme gallery looks like, along with a sample of an HTML 5 based theme:
For DevelopersFarm
• Full trust solutions
• Customizations to
file system of servers
• Classic model from
2007
Sandbox
• Declarative elements
• Partially trusted code
service still included
for limited server
side support
SP Apps
• New Apps model
• Deployed from
corporate catalog or
office market place
• Manage permission
and licenses
specifically
• Preferred option
How to create the Solutions
Step 1: Identify the business needs of the usersTHIS IS JUST BUSINESS ANALYSIS & REQUIREMENT GATHERING
Management Team
Sales & Delivery Teams
Finance, Marketing &
HR Teams
IT
(Developers & Administrators)
Partners
Public
(Clients, Potential Clients)
Step 2: Evaluate which components of Sharepoint are Required and how they map to the Business NeedsTHIS HELPS TO DETERMINE WHETHER SHAREPOINT IS THE ONLY TOOL REQUIRED AND HOW SHAREPOINT MAPS TO THE REQUIREMENTS
Sharepoint 2013 Feature-set
Step 3: Procurement and SetupDURING THIS STEP, PROPER PLANNING IS REQUIRED (HARDWARE REQUIRED, SOFTWARE REQUIRED
For Example: Procurement and Hardware Sizing…..
Planning:
Proper hardware sizing
Software setup
IT policies and Governance
Administration:
Users Management – FBA, AD
Backups and Disaster Recovery - Options
Example : Hardware SizingWeb Application Server
Processor 64-bit, four cores
RAM 4 GB for developer or evaluation use
8 GB for production use in a single server or in a multiple server farm
Hard disk 80 GB for system drive
Maintain twice as much free space as you have RAM for production environments.
Database Server
Processor 64-bit, 4 cores for small deployments
64-bit, 8 cores for medium deployments
RAM 8 GB for small deployments
16 GB for medium deployments
Hard disk 80 GB for system drive
Hard disk space is dependent on the size of your SharePoint content
Step 4: Deployment, UAT and User Training IMPLEMENTATION STAGE
And we have //!
Demo @ SPUG
Case StudyLANDS INFORMATION SYSTEM
