What has SharePoint done for you lately? Use the guidance in this slide deck to help make SharePoint for You (and not the other way around)

1. Make SharePoint work for
You!
(and not the other way around)
Asif Rehmani
SharePoint MVP and MCT
@asifrehmani
SharePoint-Videos.com

2. VisualSPTM
in-context and on-demand
Help for SharePoint users

3. Multi-User access to All videos on
SharePoint-Videos.com
SharePoint topics covered
SharePoint site Administration SharePoint Designer
InfoPath Reporting Services
Business Connectivity Services Branding
Workflows Term Store (taxonomy)
Access and Access Services Records Management
Project management Search
Server Administration JavaScript customizations
Hundreds of video tutorials
Fully narrated by SharePoint experts

4. Target audience for this session
Rated E for Everyone

5. Have you ever asked this question to
yourself?
What has SharePoint done for me lately…?

6. What SharePoint Can do for You!
1. Make you look like a super
hero
2. Progress your career
3. Help you get a job in any
industry vertical you choose
1. Make you look completely
foolish
2. Get you fired
3. Make you change your career
and go to a different industry

7. What SharePoint version are you on?
(or navigating towards)
2013
2010
2007
Earlier

8. What can SharePoint do?
Collaboration
Document management
Forms
Workflows
Business Intelligence
Reporting
Search
…
Super secret
The next version will even make
coffee!
(wrong question)

9. Shot Gun Approach
Intranet Doc Mgmt Search
Vertical Focus
Horizontal Focus then Dive in
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Intranet Doc Mgmt Search
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Diving into
SharePoint areas

10. What can SharePoint do for our
business?
Human resource on-boarding process
Vacation scheduling system
Vendor management portal
Employee training scheduling and materials
Business performance reporting
Company knowledge base
Help desk portal
Inventory tracking
…
(correct question)

11. Recipe for failure
Hire the local SharePoint “experts” to come and “do SharePoint”
without consultation with business leads
Start on many SharePoint projects all at once
Treat SharePoint like a regular intranet where IT pushes out the content
and manages pages. Knowledge workers just consume the information

12. Building on top of the
SharePoint platform

13. Creating Solutions
Recommended sequence when creating Your solutions:
1. Browser based only
2. Use no-code tools
3. Use code tools
OR
3rd party products

14. No-code tools to build solutions

15. SharePoint Designer 2010
Workflows Conditional Formatting

16. Library form Custom SharePoint list form
InfoPath 2010 & 2013

17. Excel 2013 and browser
Use PowerView to better visualize and present your data dashboard

18. Access 2013 and browser
Build Access web apps and launch to SharePoint Online
Access tables reside in SQL database

19. How do I practice my ideas and
concepts?
Watch free videos at:
http://sharepoint-videos.com/video-categories/all-
free-videos/
Get a free CloudShare environment for 14 days to play
around with:
http://tinyurl.com/asifcloudshare
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20. Don’t forget about the
End Users!!!
“If you build it, they will come” is sadly not true for SharePoint

21. Stop training the end users… please
Cost of “training” users the traditional way:
approx. $300 / user (not counting the time off from work)
for an average 1 day training
Size of Organization Total cost of training end users
500 $150,000
1,000 $300,000
2,000 $600,000
5,000 $1,500,000
10,000 $3,000,000

22. How to help SharePoint users be
successful!
Get them excited and help them understand what’s in it for them!
Provide them help and support when they need it
Don’t make the users jump through extra steps to get the help they
need
Empower your help desk (or yourself if You are the help desk) with the
tools you need to help your users

23. Call to Action
Focus on what your business needs are and not what SharePoint can do
Practice what you are learning in a sandbox/play environment
Plan to support your end users
Thank You!