SharePoint for CommunicationsHow new features and functionality in SharePoint 2013 will enhance BMO’s Corporate Intranet Portal and the use of the portal for corporate communications
Jed Cawthorne, Senior Manager, Intranet InitiativesCorporate Intranet TeamBMO Financial Group
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Agenda
• Introduction
• Evolving Intranet Capabilities at BMO
• Current State Overview
• Future State - SharePoint 2013
• Future State – Short / Medium / Long term
• Short term– BMO Central and Canadian P&C Central Portals
– Rich Profiles
– What’s new in SharePoint 2013 for Communications
• Medium Term– SharePoint 2013 Social Collaboration Functionality
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About BMO Financial Group
• Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group (TSX, NYSE: BMO) is a highly diversified financial services organization. With total assets of $593 billion as of January 31, 2014, and approximately 45,500 employees, BMO provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.
• We serve Canadian clients through BMO Bank of Montreal®, our personal and commercial banking business, BMO Nesbitt Burns®*, one of Canada's leading wealth management firms, and BMO Capital MarketsTM, our North American investment and corporate banking division.
• In the United States, clients are served through BMO Harris Bank, a major U.S. Midwest personal and commercial bank, and BMO Private Bank, with wealth management offices across the United States, as well as BMO Capital MarketsTM.
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Introduction
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Technology Projects
People
Process Technology
Process
People
Technology
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Intranet Projects
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Evolving Intranet Capabilities
• Unstable, underfunded, out-of-date platform
• Usability based on hundreds of sites
• Silo based architecture• Limited Social Functional
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• New Platform• Opportunity for scalable, non
Silo based architecture• Consistent User Experience• More productive content
management• Enhanced social functionality
Funded solely through T & O currency budgets
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Current State Overview
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CEO Communications – custom SP2007 blog
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COO Communications – custom SP2007 blog
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Tembo Social – enterprise poll and ideation
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Cloud based tool with SP web parts.
1 poll only, but multiple ideation threads
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Future State – short / medium / long term
• Short Term– BMO Central – target June 2014
• New News Functionality• CEO Communications Site• COO Communications Site• Rich Profiles & People Search
– Canadian P&C Central Portal• New News Functionality – combining different communications vehicles
• Medium Term– Social collaboration – potentially Q4 2014 depending on Compliance work
• New tools to facilitate different communications use cases– Newsfeed– Site Newsfeed– Social Communities Sites
• Tembo Social native SharePoint 2013 web parts
• Long Term – TBC…….
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New SP2013 BMO Central
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SP2013 Mega Menus
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New SP2013 CEO Communications
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New SP2013 News Landing Page
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SP2013 Rich Profile
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Canadian P&C Banking Portal
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What’s new in SP13 for Comms
• New ways of doing News content:– Article pages with their own URL’s for enhanced tracking and analytics– Enhanced metadata functionality powers navigation– Multiple page types (big, middle, small image sizes, no image;
above pages with or without comments)
• Conversations on articles– Comments and Likes attached to the Article page
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Re-usable standard page types
Enterprise Initiatives landing page
• A single place to anchor pages and sites that communicate information about major strategies or initiatives
• This page layout can be re-used as the landing page for a particular initiative, and the standard news article pages re-used as content pages (including the page type with comments)
• Similarly, CEO Communications site layout reused for COO / CMO etc….
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Medium Term – SP13 Social
Work is ongoing in T & O to spec and build a Compliance solution that will allow social collaboration functionality to be used by all BMO employees.
• Newsfeeds – Personal information sharing, hybrid Twitter / Facebook model
• Follow – Follow People, Sites, Documents, and Tags and receive updates in your Newsfeed
• Site Feeds – OOTB on Team Sites, can be added to Publishing Sites
• Social Community Sites – a site template offering conversation centric collaboration via multiple discussion topics, with reputation management and gamification (simple badges)
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Social Collaboration Functionality – Newsfeed
• News Feed – Micro-blogging. A Twitter / Facebook Wall hybrid, users can follow other users and follow trending topics by using hash tags. SharePoint sites and even documents use this mechanism for broadcasting updates, e.g. you can “follow” a person, a site, or a document. It is a ‘broadcast’ communication, there is no facility for a “private conversation”.
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Social Collaboration Functionality – Social Community Sites
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Social Collaboration Functionality – Site Feed
• The Site Feed is part of the SharePoint 2013 Team Site template. It can however be used / added to other types of sites.
• The Site Feed, as it sounds, is a newsfeed tied into a particular SharePoint site rather than an individual:
• The site feed is a feed scoped to a particular group of users
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Social Collaboration Functionality – SP13 Blogs
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Summary
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• Managed Metadata Service provides new functionality for navigation, filtering and the Content Search Apps to replace CQWB
• Easier to do things you could always do in SP, by separating Page Layout from branding and use of Content Types
• Comments “on the page” allow Communicators to decide whether it is “on” or “off” (rather than true social functionality)
• Social functionality – how do Corporate Communications guide the conversations, and deal with potentially negative feedback etc. How do they become Community Managers but retain the role of story teller ?
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