KMA webinar on the top 10 things we learned from attending the SharePoint Conference 2011

1. “Top Ten” Takeaways from the
2011 SharePoint Conference
October 19th, 2011
Audio Information:
Call-in Number: 1 (877) 273-4202
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Conference Room Number: 7207908

2. Insights
Housekeeping Items
• Experiencing Issues?
– Change color of your seat to RED
• Questions for Speakers?
– Submit questions during webinar
• Twitter Discussion
– #kmasp
• Feedback
– Webinar Feedback
– Next Steps/Moving Forward
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3. Insights
Introduction and Agenda
• Introductions and agenda
• About KMA and today’s presenter
• Some SPC metrics
• Top 10 takeaways
• Next steps… bringing SPC to you
• Resources and follow-up
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4. Insights
Your Hosts and Speakers
• Sara Clark, KMA
• Mike Gilronan, KMA
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5. Insights
About the Speakers – Mike Gilronan
• Partner at KMA
• 20 years of experience in IT and
Professional Services
• Focused on the Business Decision
Maker point of view
• “recovering” CPA and PMP, all-
around process geek
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6. Insights
About KMA
• Founded in 1995, focused on New England
• 25 employees, technical DNA
• Industries: Professional Services, Life Sciences
& Financial Services
• Technologies:
• SharePoint, SQL Server, Office, and Visual
Studio.NET
• Specialties:
• Collaboration: Portals, Websites, Communities
and Content Management
• Insight: Enterprise Search and Business
Intelligence
• Productivity: Forms, Workflow, Office Client
Customization
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7. Some SharePoint Conference Metrics
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8. Insights
SPC 2011 Metrics
Conference Metrics:
– 7,500 attendees
– 240 sessions
– 200 partners/vendors
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9. Insights
SPC 2011 Metrics
Metrics:
– Fastest Microsoft product to $1 billion, in line to be fastest to $2 billion
– 125 million licenses of SharePoint sold to date to 65,000 customers
– 700,000 SharePoint developers around the world
– 1,162 books on SP (including the only one that matters)
– Over 4,000 partners in the SharePoint ecosystem
– 93,000 people trained by partners on building SharePoint solutions
– 1,000 people working on SharePoint R&D
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10. Insights
SPC 2011 Metrics
• Keynote Highlight/Metric:
– 14 TB of data
– load of 7,500 concurrent
users
– restored in ~40 seconds
from full farm failover
during keynotes
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11. T
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akeaways
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12. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10. Viral Adoption Strategies (from customer “how we
did it” sessions)
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13. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (aka Search)
DID YOU KNOW: Searching on the string “#” in FAST Search returns all results in
the index? (108 million items in .02 seconds in keynote demo – wow!)
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14. Insights
9. FAST Search, aka “Search”
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15. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
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16. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)
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17. Insights
7. (Usability and Adoption) – Findability is Key
• "Find-o-meter" web
part on search page
– 20 responses/day
– 455 staff contributed
– 10 best bets
created/week
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18. Insights
7. (Usability and Adoption) – Findability is Key
• "Find-o-meter" web part and responses to users who
assist with tuning of content
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19. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)
6. Development – More Than Managed Code
(Development)
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20. Insights 6. (Development) – It’s Not (Just) About
Managed Code
• One example: SPServices
jQuery library
– http://spservices.codeplex.com/
– Requires no client-side code
– Option for Office365
– Free
• Read “The Middle Tier
Manifesto” for more details
• @sympmarc and @mrackley
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21. Insights
OK – halfway there
• Best random quote/tweet of the conference:
Client: “We don't have a Dev farm.”
Consultant: “No, actually, you don't have a
Production farm."
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22. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)
6. Development – More Than Managed Code
(Development)
5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting
(Business Intelligence)
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23. Insights 5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service
Reporting (Business Intelligence)
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24. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)
6. Development – More Than Managed Code
(Development)
5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting
(Business Intelligence)
4. SQL Denali + SSRS (Business Intelligence)
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25. Insights
4. (Business Intelligence) – SQL Denali + SSRS
• Some high points:
– Subscribe to data changes, not just report changes
(alerts on KPI, for example)
– Demo: PowerPivot add-in for Excel, Twitter
analytics mashup
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26. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10.Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)
6. Development – More Than Managed Code (Development)
5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting (Business
Intelligence)
4. SQL Denali + SSRS (Business Intelligence)
3. Get Ready for v.Next (IT Pro)
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27. Insights
3. (IT Pro) – Get Ready for v.next
• Anticipating public beta of v.next (Office 15) in late
2012
– Did we mention SPC12 is already announced for
Las Vegas, next November?
• Migration and upgrade path
– One hop simpler than two…
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28. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10.Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)
6. Development – More Than Managed Code (Development)
5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting (Business
Intelligence)
4. SQL Denali + SSRS (Business Intelligence)
3. Get Ready for v.Next (IT Pro)
2. Enterprise-ready (IT Pro)
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29. Insights
2. (IT Pro) – Enterprise-Ready. Today.
• On stage: 14TB full farm failover
• MSFT: “How we did it” (36 TB of data)
• Customer case studies: BIG data
Yahoo! Mediterranean Shipping Company
• Petabytes in Hadoop • 22 Tb stored in SQL Server
• 3.5 Billon events, 1.2TB • 396,907 transactions per minute
processed a day • 210 billion transaction per year
• 16 TB Cube
Source: slide deck from SPC249: BI Roadmap
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30. Insights
Top Ten Takeaways from SPC 2011
10. Viral Adoption Strategies
9. FAST Search (Search)
8. Training for Provisioning (Governance)
7. Findability Drives Adoption (Adoption)
6. Development – More Than Managed Code (Development)
5. SQL Denali and “Crescent” Self-Service Reporting (Business
Intelligence)
4. SQL Denali + SSRS (Business Intelligence)
3. Get Ready for v.Next (IT Pro)
2. Enterprise-ready. (IT Pro)
1. BCS to the Cloud. (Integration)
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31. Insights 1. (Integration + Cloud) – Two-way BCS
Integration with Office365.
• Read/write from
SharePoint in the
cloud to line-of-
business applications
via web services
(cloud to ground or
cloud to cloud).
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32. Insights
Placeholder -- Resources
• KMA SPC Recap Live Event – DEEP DIVE
– 11/18 in Waltham, MA Sign up HERE
– 11/29 in Cambridge, MA Sign up HERE
• Mike’s Blog articles (six-post series):
– http://kmamikegil-blog.kma-llc.net/2011/10/index.html
• Chris McNulty Blog articles (three-post series):
– http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge/2011/10/sharepoint-conference-2011-day-
three-wrapup.html
• SharePoint Conference – Official Site
– http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/default.aspx
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33. Insights
In Closing…
• How to get (and share) a copy of today’s slides
• How to continue the conversation and provide feedback:
Name Twitter E-mail Blog Phone
Mike @mikegil Mgilronan [at]kma-llc[dot]net http://kmamikegil-blog.kma-llc.net/ 781.693.6823
Gilronan
Thank you to our attendees!!!
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34. Insights
Placeholder – in closing
• Q&A
• Evaluations
• Next steps
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