Microsoft SharePoint: A business person\'s view

1. What is this buzz word “SharePoint” November 19th2009 Tim Cermak Senior Portfolio Advisor Advisicon, Inc. Tim.cermak@advisicon.com

4. Scheduling: “Scheduling Done Right Makes Management Simple”

5. Competency development is critical

6. Integrating Carbon and Silicon

7. Optimization

8. Right balance of ingredients

9. Streamline creativity

10. Sustainability

12. Is Technology the Answer... ?Can You Fly This Airplane .... A fool with a tool ... ... is still a fool !

14. Knowledge workers primarily use their minds rather than their hands; they create non-physical (software) products, such as ideas, data, information, reports, designs, plans; their product comes out of their mouths or through a pen.Russell D. Archibald: PLANNING, SCHEDULING AND CONTROLLING THE EFFORTS OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERS Our attempts to plan and schedule the efforts of knowledge workers frequently are not very successful. We have all heard the painful reaction of our fellow knowledge workers: "You can't schedule creativity:" "I don't have time to plan - I have to get some work done!" "Too much paperwork'' "Good idea for all the others, but not for me; I'm different" "You don't understand our problems". Russell D. Archibald: PLANNING, SCHEDULING AND CONTROLLING THE EFFORTS OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERS Too much emphasis is placed on instant response to any question, however tangential it may be. Memo: Ford Motor Company Subordinates at every level usually are eager to impress and please their superiors and in doing so may go well beyond levels of response and service required for effective operations Memo: Ford Motor Company

16. Create a culture of innovation

17. Invest in innovationDo we need innovation? Let’s consider the Big 3…

18. More, More MORE! –Can we innovate and use less? "These challenging times present IT leaders with an opportunity to make technology work harder and smarter to get the job done," Nancy Gofus, Verizon's senior vice president of global business products, said in a statement MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Center for eBusiness at MIT Sloan. According to Brynjolfsson, business has often had a long learning curve on how to fully utilize new technologies. “A century ago, an exciting new technology called electricity was just being introduced,” he said. “But by itself, electricity did nothing for productivity. It took decades for firms to figure out how to redesign their factories and processes to deliver a productivity payoff.” “But today, managers cannot afford to wait decades to harness the potential for greater productivity from much faster, exponential improvements in information technology. The companies that succeed will be the ones that understand the importance of combining the digital organization with digital technologies.”

19. Intranet 2.0 -- Enterprise Collaberation According to Forrester’s Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, Q3 2007, nearly 65% of organizations in North American and Europe will invest in team collaboration software in 2008. Consumer and user-centered technologies are experiencing "grass-roots" adoption in enterprises where they are empowering information workers, giving them more control over content creation, sharing and dissemination. Wikis, blogs, podcasts and instant messaging have become staples in many enterprises, especially as marketing tools or as means of communicating with customers, prospects, employees and partners. Wikis and blogs enable content creation, but can users manage content with them? Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management 23 September 2008 …all this content creation and sharing typically happens outside any formal content management strategy. Organizations should take advantage of evolving, richer user interfaces and tools for content creation, consumption and multichannel output Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management 23 September 2008

20. What is this ‘SharePoint’ stuff? By the end of 2007, 75% of all U.S. businesses will have at least tried out Microsoft SharePoint 2007. Bill Gates, delivering a keynote address Monday in Seattle at the company's Office SharePoint Conference 2008. SharePoint is "based on a vision of letting workers share information in a better way.” InformationWeek March 3, 2008 SharePoint can provide 80% of some businesses' needs straight out of the box with no customization.

21. Back to Basics to Integrate & StreamlineCulture, Methodology and Technology What’s the Secret Sauce?

24. Mid 20th Century: The UNIVAC

25. Late 20th Century: Personal PC

27. ~2000 BC Resource planning: The Pyramids.

28. 20th Century: Interdependencies and charts (Gantt Charts).

30. Strike the Right Balance in Varying EconomiesSuccessful Companies will lay the Foundation for Growth Drive Growth Enhance Efficiency Reduce Costs

31. Strike the Right Balance in Varying EconomiesSuccessful Companies will lay the Foundation for Growth Drive Growth Invest and lay the foundation for future growth Enhance Efficiency Reduce Costs

32. Culture – Socialize ideas

33. Project & Portfolio Management CapabilitiesUnified Project & Portfolio Mgt Capabilities Manage Plan Select Create PROJECT MANAGEMENT COLLABORATION Business Case Definition Demand Management Resource Management Project Scheduling Portfolio Reporting Team Collaboration Portfolio Prioritization Project Reporting Time Reporting Issues & Risk Management Capacity Planning Portfolio Optimization

35. Business Benefits

36. Risks and other Constraints

37. Requisites

38. Additional CriteriaFinancial Management Capacity Planning Resource Management Project Scheduling Time Reporting Governance Team Collaboration Project & Portfolio Reporting Asset Portfolio Management

40. Standardize meta data for enterprise reporting

41. Eliminate duplicate requests early in the process

42. Improve estimating with empirical evidence

44. Long Range IntentionEliminate Duplicate Requests

45. Business Productivity Infrastructure

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47. Thursday, 1 October, 2009 Thursday, 3 Sept, 2009 Tuesday, 22 Sept, 2009 Thursday, 1 Oct, 2009 “Thawing out” “It is not quite business as usual, but firms are finding it surprisingly easy to raise money again” “G-20 summit: 6 countries in recovery” “IMF Says Global Economic Recovery Has Begun ” “Vital Signs: Economic Recovery Prospects Improve” The new economic reality… Monday, 10 August, 2009 Friday, 9 October, 2009 “Economists see recession ending in Q3 but recovery slow” “Signs that the tide may be turning”

48. SharePoint 2010The business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web Sites Connect and Empower People Communities Composites Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure Content Insights Rapidly Respond to Business Needs Search

49. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Ribbon UI SharePoint Workspace SharePoint Mobile Office Client and Office Web App Integration Standards Support Business Connectivity Services InfoPath Form Services External Lists Workflow SharePoint Designer Visual Studio API Enhancements REST/ATOM/RSS Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings Social Bookmarking Blogs and Wikis My Sites Activity Feeds Profiles and Expertise Org Browser Sites Communities Composites PerformancePoint Services Excel Services Chart Web Part Visio Services Web Analytics SQL Server Integration PowerPivot Content Insights Enterprise Content Types Metadata and Navigation Document Sets Multi-stage Disposition Audio and Video Content Types Remote Blob Storage List Enhancements Search Social Relevance Phonetic Search Navigation FAST Integration Enhanced Pipeline

50. Introducing SQL Server PowerPivot PowerPivot for Excel (Client) PowerPivot for SharePoint (Server) www.powerpivot.com

51. Build, Deploy, and Embed

52. Extensible Business User Experience Familiar tools for end users Self-service access and insight Data exploration and analysis Predictive analysis Rich, contextual data visualization Integrated content and collab. Thin client experiences Scorecards and Dashboards Collaboration Search Business Collaboration Platform Sound and scalable platform Analysis Services Reporting Services Integration Services Master Data Services Data Warehousing Data Infrastructure and BI Platform

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54. Tim Cermak Senior Portfolio Advisor Advisicon, Inc. Tim.cermak@advisicon.com