10 Best Productivity Features in SharePoint 2013Christian Buckley, SharePoint MVP

10 Best Productivity Features in SP2013 that you need to know about!What I’ll cover today:

• SharePoint 2013 themes and their impacts

• Why focus on Productivity?

• My list of the 10 best productivity features that you need to know about

• Why will companies move to SP2013?

AboutChristian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server

• Prior to Axceler, worked for Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed Services team (now Office365-Dedicated) and worked as a consultant in the areas of software, supply chain, grid technology, and collaboration

• Co-founded and sold a software company to Rational Software. At E2open, helped design, build, and deploy a SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager), onboarding numerous high-tech manufacturing companies, including Hitachi, Matsushita, Cisco, and Seagate

• Co-authored ‘Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects’ link (MS Press, March 2012) and 3 books on software configuration management.

• Twitter: @buckleyplanet Blog: buckleyplanet.com Email: cbuck@axceler.com

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Axceler Overview

Improving Collaboration since 2007Mission: To enable enterprises to simplify, optimize, and secure their collaborative platforms

Delivered award-winning administration and migration software since 1994, for SharePoint since 2007Over 2,000 global customers

Dramatically improve the management of SharePoint

Innovative products that improve security, scalability, reliability, “deployability”Making IT more effective and efficient and lower the total cost of ownership

Focus on solving specific SharePoint problems (Administration & Migration)

Coach enterprises on SharePoint best practicesGive administrators the most innovative tools availableAnticipate customers’ needsDeliver best of breed offeringsStay in lock step with SharePoint development and market trends

SharePoint 2013 Themes

WCMFeatures

• Cross Site Publishing• Video & Embedding• Image renditions• Clean URLs• Metadata navigation• Variations & Content

Translation• Search Engine

Optimization

Benefits• Built for the internet• Built for mobile

Supports the tools and workflows designers use

SocialFeatures

• Community• Social tagging• Easily share content

and activities• Follow documents,

people, sites, tags, and activities

• Improved activity streams

• Improved My Sites• Save locally

Benefits• Build more robust metadata• Make content more findable• Link people, teams, content

and activities

OfficeFeatures

• Web-based access to the Office applications

• Drag and drop from the desktop to the platform

• Exchange integrations• Improved notifications

Benefits• Online and offline editing• Improved end user

experience• Aggregated view into the

entire desktop

SearchFeatures

• FAST integration• Hover panels• Search by metadata• Search result

customization• Improved analytics

Benefits• Manage user permissions• Comprehensive security

reports• Recommendations for

permissions clean up

Online 1st Features

• Nearing parity between online and on prem

• Robust integration between the desktop and the platform

• Speeding up the delivery of new features

• Built for the cloud

Benefits• Faster realization of the

benefits of the cloud• Access to tools and data

anytime, anywhere

Why Focus on Productivity?

Why focus on Productivity?To simplify the interface into SharePointTo better align end user activities with the needs of the businessTo better streamline business processesTo get more out of SharePoint

Faster employee on-boarding and trainingMore business outputMore usage of the platformFaster realization of the financial investments you’ve made in SharePoint

The result?

10 Best SharePoint 2013 Productivity Features

Making end users more productive

Drag and Drop

Making end users more productive

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Making end users more productive

Drag and DropMy TasksOutlook Integration

Making end users more productive

Drag and DropMy TasksOutlook IntegrationRollups / Aggregation Capability

These images courtesy of Liam Cleary (@helloitsliam)

Making end users more productive

Drag and DropMy TasksOutlook IntegrationRollups / Aggregation CapabilityActivity Feeds

Making end users more productive

Drag and DropMy TasksOutlook IntegrationRollups / Aggregation CapabilityActivity FeedsProjects and Deadlines

Making end users more productive

Drag and DropMy TasksOutlook IntegrationRollups / Aggregation CapabilityActivity FeedsProjects and DeadlinesSimplified Sharing

Making end users more productive

Drag and DropMy TasksOutlook IntegrationRollups / Aggregation CapabilityActivity FeedsProjects and DeadlinesSimplified SharingThe App Model

Making end users more productive

Drag and DropMy TasksOutlook IntegrationRollups / Aggregation CapabilityActivity FeedsProjects and DeadlinesSimplified SharingThe App ModelAdvanced Search

Making end users more productive

Drag and DropMy TasksOutlook IntegrationRollups / Aggregation CapabilityActivity FeedsProjects and DeadlinesSimplified SharingThe App ModelAdvanced SearchEmbedded Social Experiences

Why companies will move to SharePoint 2013

Why will customers move to 2013?

Social has become a company strategyPublishing to multiple formats (intranet, extranet, internet, mobile, tablet)Increasingly mobile workforce, geographically dispersedEnd user adoption (tighter integration with Office) and usability improvementsImproved search and business intelligence, whether data is on prem or in the cloud

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Christian Buckleycbuck@axceler.com+1 425-246-2823@buckleyPLANETwww.buckleyPLANET.com and http://info.axceler.com