Take this opportunity to learn more about SP 2013 and find out about the plans other organizations have for SP 2013. Some of the common concerns now include:
Should I wait for SP 2013 or move on with SP 2010?
How do I justify for SP 2013's investment?
With great improvements in features and usability, the SP product team now says that the web/intranet team can focus more on engaging with users needs rather than vendors' implementation. So what role do we play in SP 2013, and what role do vendors play?
What does it mean for migration from earlier versions of SharePoint?
SharePoint 2013: The Way to Go for Intranet Solutions
1. SharePoint
SharePoint 2013
the way to go…
By K.Mohamed Faizal ,
Lead Consultant, Chief Architect Office
NCS (P) Ltd, Singapore
www.zquad.in / @kmdfaizal
6. Top 6 Features of Intranet
Collaboration
Content
2 3
Intranet
Communication
Task Oriented
1 4
Search Social
6 5
7. Search and “Find-ability”
Search features of the best intranets include:
• Search-as-you-type (like Google), which predicts what
users are looking for
• Wildcard searches (*, &, AND, OR)
• Suggested criteria for similar searches when no matches
are found
• Search results sorted by view count
• Smart search that recognizes common misspellings,
• Smart search that recognizes content tags
• Capability to index multiple sources (a federated search)
• Tag content, allowing content to be better found by others
• Search on a topic by
• Who created or contributed to the content,
• matching people by skills rather than names & departments
only
8. Social
Social features, the best intranets include:
• Tagging of content, • Microblogging
• Content sharing, • Activity feeds
• Commenting/voting and • @Mention
• Creating stronger user profiles • Like
• Search archives of • Follow documents
messages/profiles/tags
• Photos and videos
• Real time feeds
• Activity Stream
• Real-time chat
• Knowledge mining
• Groups / discussion forums
• Events
• Blogging
• App store
9. Collaboration
Collaboration features, the best intranets include:
• Tapping the collective knowledge of the workforce
• Improve team building and morale
• Improve communication
• Develop cross-disciplinary skills
• Gain cross-disciplinary insight
• Get more perspectives
• Get team and stakeholder buy in
• Improve innovation
• Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal
• Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team
member
• Custom apps for very specific needs
• Social collaboration on your intranet
• Collaboration is important because it is a leadership skill. Any good leader knows that it has to let go of some control
wherein passing it down to someone else and working together
• Work faster and more cost effectively
10. Community / Recognition and Rewards
Community features, the best intranets include:
• Gamification to engage
• Intrinsic Motivation Forums
• Increase user engagement
• Influence behavior
• Reduce time, costs
Blog,
Wiki
Doc
feedback
• Improve quality of service
• Drive user adoption, learning, loyalty
• Short Feedback loop Community
• Leaderboard, Rewards, Recognition and Badges
11. Communication
Community features, the best intranets include:
• Use dynamic content to make sure homepages are update automatically on a regular
basis and keep users coming back.
• What’s happening in the business?
• What’s the leadership team focusing on?
• What are my colleagues working on?
• Global communication
• CEO’s message, column or even blog, the main corporate news bulletins and more.
• Local communication
• ‘Local’ communication is targeted to local or specific areas of a business.
• Regional office or department,
• Departments such as Sales, IT or HR, and also often by employees themselves via a ‘submit news’
feature or similar.
• Employee-to-employee communication
15. Sharing Issue
• Granting access to a site can be a bit convoluted
• Users don’t understand what permission level to grant to other users
• Users generally don't know who all has permissions on a site
• Users can’t see the invitations that have been sent out to external users.
• Users don’t understand what rights they are giving people when they add them to a
SharePoint group
• You can only request access if you have no access at all
• No obvious ways to ask for additional access
• You can’t share with others if you don’t have Grant Permissions right, which only Owners have
• Users have no way of seeing the status of their requests
• Sharing is typically done for the whole site, when usually the only thing people want to share
is a web, list or library
• Site owners don’t have a place to see all pending requests and to manage the
18. Social net @ Work
Post updates to let your
colleagues know what you’re
working on
Follow people, documents sites
Ask questions ?, Like and Reply and tags
20. Share Content with Social Power
Communities
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
32. Theme Gallery
• This is what the new theme gallery looks like, along with a sample of an
HTML 5 based theme:
33. Communication
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
34. Communication
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
35. 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