About me -

o Earned a tag "Microsoft Certified Professional" from Microsoft for SharePoint technologies in 2011 & re-newed in 2014,

o Passed a few Microsoft certifications to start with like 70-331, 70-488, 70-668, 70-667, 70- 631 & 70-432,

o Acquired a tag 'Guru' in SharePoint from Experts-Exchange grossing over 2 lacks points as a result of solving the real life technical problems in SharePoint technologies,

o 6 year qualified experience in trying to make business solutions using SharePoint 2013, 2010, 2007, SQL & third party products revolving round them,

o Looking for that feeling you get when the solution you created improves business process.

How I see SharePoint:

o SharePoint in layman's view,

is a platform. A business can use it to solutionize most of the business needs from Information Technology stack.

o SharePoint in business sense,

Means a one stop solution (or at least an intent to start with!).

It could be looked as if an organization-wide consolidated one page to business owners, management & ground level employees.

People like me comes into picture in "How-to" part. I felt this as immensely interesting since

this thing is a highly flexible & complexity comes free of cost with flexibility on our earth.

Interdependencies & the inside look of SharePoint is a complex world to understand.

Like any other successful thing, it does needs long term perspective & vision at core.

Business perception

o In good implementations,

Good easy to use solution for the primary business need why SharePoint has come into the premises.

Difficult to leverage most of its (other) on-paper capabilities thereby ending up with a solution to a single business need, often collaboration.

o In not so good implementations,

We feel SharePoint as very complex, too many limitations, very costly tool.

This comes as an aftermath of some or all of:

Poor technical design,

Inconsistent governance & retention processes,

Irregular maintenance cycles & lack of preventive maintenance,

Poor development practices,

Improperly configured monitoring tools and

Inconsistent newer trainings to ground level people.

o Summarizing business perception,

SharePoint is not a one-time configuration kind of product,

It needs to get evolved all the time to effectively address newer & broader business needs, keeping the existing solutions intact.

SharePoint as a platform, is highly stable.

Likes

Exploring how better we can handle things like below in overall SharePoint life cycle,

initial SharePoint configuration with a very deep understanding of the exact business need against product features,

Smart maintenance & upgrade cycles on periodic (+ as & when) need basis,

Employing best practices, regulations in development, customizations,

Retention and tracking solution growth in terms of trends for usage, sizing and server performances, granular reporting, automations & alerts,

Effective use of third party monitoring tools available in-house,

Business process automations,

Functional & technical governance,

SharePoint user level best practice consistent awareness,

Effective backup restore procedures & alerts on failures (not on completion).

Preparing presentations,

Penning down the self-delivered better solutions,

Practices and procedures,

Resolutions & occasional product hoax, proposing a few as & when realised.

Beliefs

Controlling the platform & not the other way,

Inclined to look a little far to imbibe propose-plan-execute approach than taking things as they comes,

Automation in mundane work helps,

Descent fall back plan before every crucial activity offers million $s one day,

Following own intuition is better while resolving outlandish issues than following exceptions mentioned in ULS.

Profile summation

has analysed, architectured, proposed, implemented & maintained multiple SharePoint 2013, 2010 and 2007 3-tier, 2-tier production, staging, development &

Sandbox environments by virtue of which has delivered business solutions via SharePoint platform including:

Knowledge management,

Document management,

Content management,

Business intelligence,

Intranet portals,

Business process automations using workflow solutions,

Business intelligence using Kerberos authentication,

Information retention,

Analysing and precise reporting.

Analysing third party products, codeplex solutions to add a business value to the SharePoint platform.

Next looking for polishing above things & the SharePoint application development area, lately & surely would like enter SharePoint on internet.

& a lot more to do that comes on the way.