How to Troubleshoot Apps for the Modern Connected Worker
Attini intro
1. Attini Software
Socializing Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Attini (family Formicidae, subfamily Myrmicinae) Tribe of ants in which foliage
cut by foraging workers provides a substrate for the growth of a fungus, localized
in fungus gardens within the soil nest. Fungal gongylidia (hyphae with swollen
tips) are harvested by workers and fed to larvae. There are 200 species,
restricted to the New World where most occur in the neotropics.
2. Our Vision
• Knowledge Management is now Social Computing
• Innovation no longer occurs inside the Enterprise, it
happens on the outside, on the Consumer internet
• SharePoint is Social, but not Social enough, can’t
keep up with innovation happening between the 3
year release cycles
• Peoples expectations have grown
dramatically, companies need to provide internal
alternatives to Facebook, Youtube, Flickr and
Wordpress, otherwise information leakage will
happen
3. Our Approach
• SharePoint is a fantastic and rich platform
• We compliment, we don’t reinvent, SharePoint only
needs to be a little bit better
• We bring Internet innovation to SharePoint in a
targeted way, tuning it to the Enterprise
• We aggregate information into portals to make it
more discoverable, to make the best bubble to the
top and to unify the suite
4. Why Attini?
Native to Solution Affordable,
Complete Social
SharePoint, framework to commoditizing
Suite on
2010, scalable help accelerate Social
SharePoint 2010
and upgradeable custom templates SharePoint 2010
“Attini costs a quarter of the price of
competitors, has 75% of the
features, and covers 90% of your
requirements”
Daniel McPherson, CEO and chief architect, Attini Software
6. Attini Blog
• A company wide portal made of configurable web
parts that make the best posts more discoverable
• Support for different views that make the best
content bubble to the top
• Number of targeted extensions to the blog template
• Centralized blog directory containing information on
all the blogs in your environment
7. Blog Enhancements
• Enhanced search box, results in a format that makes sense
• One-click e-mail subscription, don’t miss a post
• Summary views, quick access to the most recent and popular
posts
• Information panel, quick access to information about the blog
• Tag cloud, filters and drill into the content within the blog
• Real time view tracking, instant feedback and keeps people
engaged
• Related posts, and related content, uses tags to help you find
relevant information
8. Attini News
• News is the cornerstone of message delivery for any
organization
• Always one of the first Intranet solutions, but
SharePoint doesn’t really have an out of box
experience.
• Attini News brings a news solution to SharePoint.
Makes it Social, makes it two way, makes it
personalized.
9. News Template Features
• A social panel, with real time view tracking and statistics
• Decentralized authoring combined with centralized viewing
• Comments, people can react to news articles online
• Rich Articles with by-lines, attachments and thumbnails
• The ability to embargo publishing or publish news in the future
• Filtering based on profile (country, business, department)
• Customizable UI, including carousels
• Weighted views, that use tag clouds to drill into the articles you are
looking for
• Web parts can be reused across entire SharePoint farm
• Enhanced news search - provides results in a format that makes
sense
10. Site
Content Content Collections
Type Type Hub (Farm/Web App)
Data islands all over again
Information is difficult to find, not discoverable.
How do you find the best content?
There is an obsession with physical location
SharePoint Information from anywhere.
Search
Displayed everywhere.
With the best bubbled to the top.
One giant table Performance,
containing your Data Analysis,
intranet UI Designer
11. Attini Aggregation Engine Features
• Creates a rich end user portal by building on 'Content
Types', where all related data is aggregated.
• It can create any number of focused 'Aggregation
Applications, unimpeded by where data is stored
• Enables the end-user to completely customize the look
and feel of each portal
• Provides a way to make the best information on your
intranet “bubble to the top”
• Build portal pages based on multiple aggregation
applications, even build your own custom templates.
12. Attini Video
• With Attini Video you can create YouTube for your
business. Delivering key messages visually and
putting your colleagues in the limelight.
• Attini Video allows people to upload videos to the
site and for others to comment on that video. These
videos can be shared, 'liked', aggregated with other
media and used for a whole variety of other good
stuff.
16. Attini Talk
• Attini Talk provides a way to bring Twitter to your intranet.
Keeping tweets within the company and more easily finding
out what’s on peoples minds.
• Gain important insight in your organization by applying social
analytics on your internal networks
• Available on mobile devices - Browse your Timeline
everywhere on your mobile device and integration with Rich
Clients such as Seesmic
17. Attini Talk Template Features
• 140 characters (configurable) status updates integrated with the My Site
status update
• Allows for popular Twitter features such as
@mentions, #tags, retweets, replies and followers
• Keeps your finger on the companies pulse through aggregate capabilities
like trending topics
• Enables users to search the company Timeline on interesting or relevant
topics
• Have instant access to your Timeline, latest updates and mentions and
replies.
• Prebuilt aggregation webparts that can be placed anywhere in your
farm, such as most followed colleagues, most retweeted updates and
trending topics.
18. Pricing and plans
basic plus premium max ultimate
• Up to 100 users • Up to 500 users • Up to 3000 users • Up to 10000 users • Unlimited users
• Single server* • Single server* • Single farm* • Unlimited servers • Unlimited servers
• Annual support 20% • Annual support 20% • Annual support 20% • Installation services • Installation
services
• Annual premium • Annual premium
support 22% support 22%
• Custom templates • Custom templates
• Attini Engine
training
* Extra server licenses are available are available at 25% of the original module license
19. Pricing and plans
basic plus premium max ultimate
Blogs
Your perfect SharePoint blogging tool USD 5,500 USD 10,000 USD 18,000 USD 28,000 USD 48,000
News
Aggregated news from multiple sources USD 5,500 USD 10,000 USD 18,000 USD 28,000 USD 48,000
Video
You Tube function for your business USD 5,500 USD 10,000 USD 18,000 USD 28,000 USD 48,000
Talk
Aggregate all micro blogging on your intranet USD 11,000 USD 20,000 USD 36,000 USD 56,000 USD 96,000
Social Pack* 10% discount 10% discount 10% discount 10% discount 10% discount
Choose your two exclusive products from blogs, news,
video or talk
Super Social* 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount
Choose your three exclusive products from blogs,
news, video or talk
Engine
Powerful content aggregation engine Not available USD 40,000 USD 80,000
All prices excluding VAT, indicative and pricing will vary in local currency.
* Excluding Attini Engine
20. Pricing and plans
basic plus premium max ultimate
Blogs
Your perfect SharePoint blogging tool USD 5,500 USD 10,000 USD 18,000 USD 28,000 USD 48,000
News
Aggregated news from multiple sources USD 5,500 USD 10,000 USD 18,000 USD 28,000 USD 48,000
Video
You Tube function for your business USD 5,500 USD 10,000 USD 18,000 USD 28,000 USD 48,000
Engine
Powerful content aggregation engine N/a USD 40,000 USD 80,000
Talk
Aggregate all micro blogging on your intranet USD11,000 USD20,000 USD 36,000 USD 56,000 USD 96,000
Social Pack*
Choose your two exclusive products from blogs, news, 10% discount 10% discount 10% discount 10% discount 10% discount
or video.
Super Social*
Get all three solutions, blogs, news and video. 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount
All prices excluding VAT, indicative and pricing will vary in local currency.
* Excluding Attini Engine
Attini Blogs is the one place people can go to find blogs and posts relevant to them, and it ensures that SharePoint can keep up-to-date with all the latest knowledge management innovation in the marketplace. Attini Blogs provides a number of blog template enhancements, a new blogging portal and a blog directoryBlogs are increasingly becoming standard practice for business and internal communications. They not only open up and de-formalise leadership messages, but they give employees a voice. A company without a blog solution is missing out and being left behind. And no one wants that, do they?As part of the Attini Social Suite, Attini Blogs makes employee blogging on SharePoint easier and more effective. It makes it just as easy for people to publish to your intranet as it is to write an e-mail. Discovering knowledge is easy, and sharing it even easier. While the standard SharePoint blogging template provides all the essentials needed to get started, Attini has created a few important features to make it even better. Attini Blogs ensures that SharePoint's blog template meets the expectations of bloggers more familiar with platforms like WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. New enhancements to the blog home page template:Enhanced search box - provides results in a format that makes sense One-click e-mail subscription - makes sure people don't miss a post Summary views - provides quick access to the most recent and popular posts Information panel - provides information on the nature of the blog, the owners of the blog and their contact details Tag cloud - filters the posts within the current blog based on how they are tagged Blog portal link - ensures that people can find the overall blogging view within your organisation RSS enabled - you know what RSS is. New enhancements to the individual blog post template:Real time view tracking - provides the author with instant feedback on readership Information panel - provides information on the number of comments, tags and age of post Related posts - shows any other posts that have been published on the same topic. blogging portalAttini Blogs provides a new blogging portal where a configurable set of aggregation web parts create a place where people can see what others are blogging about. With Attini Blogs you can make the knowledge people share more discoverable by creating views based on the number of comments or 'hits' a post has received. This way your most important posts will rise or 'bubble' to the top of the page. Additionally, Attini Blogs' advanced Tag Cloud and Tag List take SharePoint's tagging function to a new level, helping people to create compound filters which deliver posts only on the topics of interest to them. By including an RSS feed, they can be assured of never missing a post. blog directoryIt's also important to be able to find the latest and most popular blogs and blog posts. Attini Blogs includes a centralised Blog Directory, containing all the blogs in your environment, their location, description, owner information, statistics and extensible metadata. The information in the Blog Directory is constantly updated and also provides a 'My Blogs' section, making it easy to find any blogs in which you have contributed.
Attini Blogs is the one place people can go to find blogs and posts relevant to them, and it ensures that SharePoint can keep up-to-date with all the latest knowledge management innovation in the marketplace. Attini Blogs provides a number of blog template enhancements, a new blogging portal and a blog directoryBlogs are increasingly becoming standard practice for business and internal communications. They not only open up and de-formalise leadership messages, but they give employees a voice. A company without a blog solution is missing out and being left behind. And no one wants that, do they?As part of the Attini Social Suite, Attini Blogs makes employee blogging on SharePoint easier and more effective. It makes it just as easy for people to publish to your intranet as it is to write an e-mail. Discovering knowledge is easy, and sharing it even easier. While the standard SharePoint blogging template provides all the essentials needed to get started, Attini has created a few important features to make it even better. Attini Blogs ensures that SharePoint's blog template meets the expectations of bloggers more familiar with platforms like WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. New enhancements to the blog home page template:Enhanced search box - provides results in a format that makes sense One-click e-mail subscription - makes sure people don't miss a post Summary views - provides quick access to the most recent and popular posts Information panel - provides information on the nature of the blog, the owners of the blog and their contact details Tag cloud - filters the posts within the current blog based on how they are tagged Blog portal link - ensures that people can find the overall blogging view within your organization RSS enabled - you know what RSS is. New enhancements to the individual blog post template:Real time view tracking - provides the author with instant feedback on readership Information panel - provides information on the number of comments, tags and age of post Related posts - shows any other posts that have been published on the same topic. blogging portalAttini Blogs provides a new blogging portal where a configurable set of aggregation web parts create a place where people can see what others are blogging about. With Attini Blogs you can make the knowledge people share more discoverable by creating views based on the number of comments or 'hits' a post has received. This way your most important posts will rise or 'bubble' to the top of the page. Additionally, Attini Blogs' advanced Tag Cloud and Tag List take SharePoint's tagging function to a new level, helping people to create compound filters which deliver posts only on the topics of interest to them. By including an RSS feed, they can be assured of never missing a post. blog directoryIt's also important to be able to find the latest and most popular blogs and blog posts. Attini Blogs includes a centralized Blog Directory, containing all the blogs in your environment, their location, description, owner information, statistics and extensible metadata. The information in the Blog Directory is constantly updated and also provides a 'My Blogs' section, making it easy to find any blogs in which you have contributed.
Attini News brings a much needed news template to SharePoint and in the process, helps SharePoint make news social, instilling all the benefits of two-way communication. As you may have noticed, SharePoint 2010 doesn't have a News template. Strange, isn't it? Have you ever seen an intranet site that doesn't have a News section? There's not many, if any. News is usually the cornerstone of message delivery for any organization and its intranet. So an intranet site most definitely needs a news template... and a social one at that!We want to change the common perception that a company's news must be a one way discussion sent from the top down, without input from employees.overviewAs you may have noticed, SharePoint 2010 doesn't have a News template. Strange, isn't it? Have you ever seen an intranet site that doesn't have a News section? There's not many, if any. News is usually the cornerstone of message delivery for any organization and its intranet. So an intranet site most definitely needs a news template... and a social one at that!We want to change the common perception that a company's news must be a one way discussion sent from the top down, without input from employees.Attini News brings a much needed news template to SharePoint and in the process, helps SharePoint make news social, instilling all the benefits of two-way communication. With Attini News, we've made news easier to publish and organize, while allowing people to contribute, ask questions, and comment on a news articleA social panel - this enables real time view tracking and statistics, a 'like' function, related news, videos and blogs, the number of comments and tagging Targeted news items and aggregated news from multiple sources Comments - people can react to news articles online More article content - new features including titles, by-lines, body, date, 'published by' and attachments The ability to embargo publishing or publish news in the future Filtering based on profile (country, business, department) News display - carousel, list, feature Aggregation - aggregates news from anywhere in the SharePoint farm Aggregated views - displays most viewed and most discussed Weighted views - tag cloud, author cloud, category cloud Multiple web parts to meet business needs Reuse of web parts across entire SharePoint farm Enhanced news search - provides results in a format that makes sense Support of structured taxonomy and folksonomy.
Attini News brings a much needed news template to SharePoint and in the process, helps SharePoint make news social, instilling all the benefits of two-way communication. As you may have noticed, SharePoint 2010 doesn't have a News template. Strange, isn't it? Have you ever seen an intranet site that doesn't have a News section? There's not many, if any. News is usually the cornerstone of message delivery for any organization and its intranet. So an intranet site most definitely needs a news template... and a social one at that!We want to change the common perception that a company's news must be a one way discussion sent from the top down, without input from employees.overviewAs you may have noticed, SharePoint 2010 doesn't have a News template. Strange, isn't it? Have you ever seen an intranet site that doesn't have a News section? There's not many, if any. News is usually the cornerstone of message delivery for any organization and its intranet. So an intranet site most definitely needs a news template... and a social one at that!We want to change the common perception that a company's news must be a one way discussion sent from the top down, without input from employees.Attini News brings a much needed news template to SharePoint and in the process, helps SharePoint make news social, instilling all the benefits of two-way communication. With Attini News, we've made news easier to publish and organize, while allowing people to contribute, ask questions, and comment on a news articleA social panel - this enables real time view tracking and statistics, a 'like' function, related news, videos and blogs, the number of comments and tagging Targeted news items and aggregated news from multiple sources Comments - people can react to news articles online More article content - new features including titles, by-lines, body, date, 'published by' and attachments The ability to embargo publishing or publish news in the future Filtering based on profile (country, business, department) News display - carousel, list, feature Aggregation - aggregates news from anywhere in the SharePoint farm Aggregated views - displays most viewed and most discussed Weighted views - tag cloud, author cloud, category cloud Multiple web parts to meet business needs Reuse of web parts across entire SharePoint farm Enhanced news search - provides results in a format that makes sense Support of structured taxonomy and folksonomy.
As great as SharePoint is, one thing we've noticed (and we're pretty sure you have too) is that its site collections, sites and sub-sites can grow far too quickly. When this happens, SharePoint can become unwieldy, making it feel like an uncontrolled environment.People have the ability to create any number of sites, each containing multiple document libraries, meeting workspaces and so on. While this ability is also one of SharePoint's strengths , it presents users with a real challenge. How do I find content that can help me do my job better?For example, to read a blogpost, you first need to find the blog. This could be in a person's 'My Site', or maybe within your organization's Team Sites. You can't discover this information based on your individual interests - you have to go looking for it with no base from which to start. As great as SharePoint is, one thing we've noticed (and we're pretty sure you have too) is that its site collections, sites and sub-sites can grow far too quickly. When this happens, SharePoint can become unwieldy, making it feel like an uncontrolled environment.People have the ability to create any number of sites, each containing multiple document libraries, meeting workspaces and so on. While this ability is also one of SharePoint's strengths , it presents users with a real challenge. How do I find content that can help me do my job better?For example, to read a blogpost, you first need to find the blog. This could be in a person's 'My Site', or maybe within your organization's Team Sites. You can't discover this information based on your individual interests - you have to go looking for it with no base from which to start. overviewAs great as SharePoint is, one thing we've noticed (and we're pretty sure you have too) is that its site collections, sites and sub-sites can grow far too quickly. When this happens, SharePoint can become unwieldy, making it feel like an uncontrolled environment.People have the ability to create any number of sites, each containing multiple document libraries, meeting workspaces and so on. While this ability is also one of SharePoint's strengths , it presents users with a real challenge. How do I find content that can help me do my job better?For example, to read a blogpost, you first need to find the blog. This could be in a person's 'My Site', or maybe within your organization's Team Sites. You can't discover this information based on your individual interests - you have to go looking for it with no base from which to start. buypricingtake a lookWhat SharePoint's missing is a way to aggregate, surface and promote information that is relevant to you from across your entire SharePoint environment. By being able to make the most recent and valuable information easier to discover, you could instantly have that foundation from which to start looking. This is exactly why Attini has created the attini engine. The attini engine is a powerful aggregation engine which enhances the basic SharePoint platform by providing a way to collect, aggregate and socialize content from across the entire SharePoint farm, effectively putting an end to SharePoint sprawl.portal builderThe attini engine creates a rich end user portal by building on 'Content Types', so that all related business information is aggregated. It can create any number of focused 'Aggregation Applications', allowing you to worry less about where the information is physically stored, and more about how and where it is virtually presented to users. The attini engine enables the end user to completely customize the look and feel of each portal, with each application defining the specific subset of SharePoint content that is to be aggregated, the views through which you would like the information to display, and how those views render within a specialized 'Aggregation' web part. By sorting the information according to properties (for example, the number of views or comments), the attini engine provides a way to make the best information on your intranet 'bubble to the top'. content centralMultiple Aggregation Applications can also be combined on a single page, allowing you to build portal pages that combine different types of information relevant and important to you. For example, your company probably has a lot of policies, each owned by different groups across different departments (HR, IT or Finance maybe). Each department most likely manages their policies' creation and maintenance in different ways, making it difficult for people to find the policies they are looking for - i.e. recently updated policies and/or those only relevant to them. This is where the attini engine comes in, providing a way to pull all the policies together, onto the one 'Company Policies' start page. custom templatesWith the attini engine you can also create a custom search function to surface the content you need. You can create a list of policies from across the organization and have the ability to navigate through this list by managed metadata terms - i.e. country or department, recent policy changes, most viewed policies, most commented or liked and/or most searched policies.You can also create advanced templates on top of SharePoint's ownership and audience metadata, by adding real time view tracking, enhanced comments, an enhanced like function and/or one click subscription.Take back the power and find the information you need without the endless searching.
As great as SharePoint is, one thing we've noticed (and we're pretty sure you have too) is that its site collections, sites and sub-sites can grow far too quickly. When this happens, SharePoint can become unwieldy, making it feel like an uncontrolled environment.People have the ability to create any number of sites, each containing multiple document libraries, meeting workspaces and so on. While this ability is also one of SharePoint's strengths , it presents users with a real challenge. How do I find content that can help me do my job better?For example, to read a blogpost, you first need to find the blog. This could be in a person's 'My Site', or maybe within your organization's Team Sites. You can't discover this information based on your individual interests - you have to go looking for it with no base from which to start. take a lookWhat SharePoint's missing is a way to aggregate, surface and promote information that is relevant to you from across your entire SharePoint environment. By being able to make the most recent and valuable information easier to discover, you could instantly have that foundation from which to start looking. This is exactly why Attini has created the attini engine. portal builderThe attini engine creates a rich end user portal by building on 'Content Types', so that all related business information is aggregated. It can create any number of focused 'Aggregation Applications', allowing you to worry less about where the information is physically stored, and more about how and where it is virtually presented to users. The attini engine enables the end user to completely customize the look and feel of each portal, with each application defining the specific subset of SharePoint content that is to be aggregated, the views through which you would like the information to display, and how those views render within a specialized 'Aggregation' web part. By sorting the information according to properties (for example, the number of views or comments), the attini engine provides a way to make the best information on your intranet 'bubble to the top'. content centralMultiple Aggregation Applications can also be combined on a single page, allowing you to build portal pages that combine different types of information relevant and important to you. For example, your company probably has a lot of policies, each owned by different groups across different departments (HR, IT or Finance maybe). Each department most likely manages their policies' creation and maintenance in different ways, making it difficult for people to find the policies they are looking for - i.e. recently updated policies and/or those only relevant to them. This is where the attini engine comes in, providing a way to pull all the policies together, onto the one 'Company Policies' start page. custom templatesWith the attini engine you can also create a custom search function to surface the content you need. You can create a list of policies from across the organization and have the ability to navigate through this list by managed metadata terms - i.e. country or department, recent policy changes, most viewed policies, most commented or liked and/or most searched policies.You can also create advanced templates on top of SharePoint's ownership and audience metadata, by adding real time view tracking, enhanced comments, an enhanced like function and/or one click subscription.Take back the power and find the information you need without the endless searching.
overviewThe use of video in internal communications is an easily assessable, powerful and popular tool. People love watching videos online - especially if its stars themselves or people they know.With Attini Video you can create a YouTube function for your business to help push key messages visually and put your colleagues in the limelight. Attini Video allows people to upload videos to the site and for others to comment on that video. These videos can be shared, 'liked', aggregated with other media and used for a whole variety of other good stuff.
Microblogging has exploded thanks to our friend Twitter. So what is a microblog? It is a short, limited announcement, message or comment where the writer sends out information in short, sharp bursts. In the enterprise, sites like Twitter or Yammer can provide instant, effective, real time one-to-many messaging. Attini Talk provides a way to make Twitter part of your intranet site and aggregate all the microblogging going on within your business. Keep all tweets within the company and find out what everyone has to say.
Microblogging has exploded thanks to our friend Twitter. So what is a microblog? It is a short, limited announcement, message or comment where the writer sends out information in short, sharp bursts. In the enterprise, sites like Twitter or Yammer can provide instant, effective, real time one-to-many messaging. Attini Talk provides a way to make Twitter part of your intranet site and aggregate all the microblogging going on within your business. Keep all tweets within the company and find out what everyone has to say.