What is SharePoint?

And What Does It Mean To You?

Nedra Allmond Email: NedraAllmond@live.com Blog: Nedrasharepoints Twitter:@NedraAllmond

More about Nedra

•Working with SharePoint since 2006 •MCTS •Working with the Department of Defense, the aerospace and biotech industry, entertainment and non-profit organizations •User Advocate •Presently is the Senior Technical Consulotant at Perficient •Co-Chair of SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles

•Co-Founder of the San Fernando Valley SPUG •Western Regional Board Member of Women in

SharePoint

THANK YOU

Before we get started!

• The Official Definition • The Six Pillars • The Flavors of SharePoint and How Much Does it Cost? • Who Uses SharePoint? • What Does SharePoint Mean to You? • Case Study – the CFO • Public Facing SharePoint Sites • Career Possibilities in SharePoint • The SharePoint Community • Help and How to Get Started

Agenda

What is SharePoint?

“SharePoint 2010 makes it easier for people to work together. Using SharePoint 2010, your people can set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions.”

What Microsoft says

More from Microsoft

• SharePoint Foundation • SharePoint Standard • SharePoint Enterprise • SharePoint Online

For more about comparisons, go here:

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-

us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx

The basics – flavors of SharePoint

• Bamboo SharePoint 2010 Price calculator

– http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-2010-price-calculator/default.aspx

How Much Does It Cost?

• SharePoint turned ten years old on March 27, 2011

• SharePoint even has

a father, his name

is Jeff Teper

Happy Birthday SharePoint!

Interesting…

– You are an office professional

– You are an IT professional

– You are a web designer

– You are a developer

– You are a project manager

– You are a business decision maker

– You are in finance

What does it mean to YOU?

– You are an Office Professional/Administrative Assistant

• You can become a Power User

• The path to a SharePoint Power User and beyond

Site Visitor – Site Member – Site Owner – Site Collection Administrator – Server Administrator

What does it mean to YOU?

• Might want to start with your own “pain point” – Is there a task you are doing that is repeatative or that

is manual and you would like to automate that task?

• Prerequisites: – Become very familiar with the Microsoft Office Suite

– Word, Excel, Outlook

– Learn what SharePoint can do

– Know your organization and team

– Learn about the security model of SharePoint

– Know your business process

Office Professional (cont.)

– You are an IT Professional/Server Administrator/Database Administrator/Network Security Professional

• My personal favorite

What does it mean to YOU?

– You are a web designer

• Do you remember something called FrontPage?

– It is gone away and now there is something called SharePoint Designer SPD for short.

What does it mean to YOU?

– You are a developer

• These things might help: • SharePoint Designer "Development"

• Add, use and customize the DataView Web Part

• Assemble workflows

• Branding and Style (we are going to ignore this for this article, and reference in a separate branding article)

– Master Pages

– Styles for Content Query Web Part and Summary Link Web Part

• .NET Development

• Develop Web Parts

• Develop Features (this includes list definitions, site definitions, etc.)

• Develop List Event Handlers

• Develop Workflow

What does it mean to YOU?

– You are a Project Manager

• Same skill set as PMP

• Please use MS Project

What does it mean to YOU?

– You are a business decision maker

• WE NEED YOUR BUY-IN

What does it mean to YOU?

– You are in finance

• No longer do you have to email spreadsheet, I promise

What does it mean to YOU?

• Collaboration

• Version Control

• Searching

• Business Intelligence

• Workflows (BPM)

• Content Management & Archiving

• Customizations

Practical Uses

• The CFO had a “request” • I want to know where all of all of the leases around the

globe • This required collaboration of 41 VPs and directors • SharePoint by fire, not the best approach • All executive had access to upload their files • The end result, all documents we uploaded to the site

for review by the CFO • No longer were documents in file shares, emails, flash

drives, and file drawers • The In-House Counsel stated “I love SharePoint!”

Case study- the CFO

• ???

Are you emails a file system

• I am upgrading from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 – The Ribbon

• Contact sensitive and security trimmed, you only see functions/tasks in line with your permissions

– Office integration • Easy use of content

– Cross browser compatibility, Firefox, Safari are no longer a problem, good news for MAC users

What does sharepoint mean to me if

• Pringles http://www.pringles.com/home • Hawaiian Air http://www.hawaiianair.com/ • Ferrari • http://www.ferrari.com/English/Pages/Home.asp

x • Library of Congress • Recovery.gov • http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx • Neudesic • http://www.neudesic.com/Pages/default.aspx

Public facing SharePoint Sites

• GLU.com 3D gaming site

– http://GLU.com

• US Marine Corps

– http://www.marines.mil/Pages/Default.aspx

More Public sites

• http://www.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDHomePage.aspx

Sharepoint 2010 public facing sites

• Lots of SharePoint career opportunities today

• The future of SharePoint as a career path is good

• IT Pros

• Developers, DOT Net, C#

• Project Management

• Trainers

• Administrators

• Designers

Career growth or new career

• SharePoint User Groups or SPUGS

• SharePoint Saturdays http://sharepointsaturday.org

• SharePoint MVPs

The SharePoint community

• Here are a few links for training and information:

– What is SharePoint (Lynda.com video)

– SharePoint components and terminology - intermediate (Lynda.com video)

– http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx

Links To Get you started!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12Jb5Z2xaE

MS SP Training: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/CH011424561033.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/webcasts/HA102547461033.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/webcasts/HA102547461033.aspx

ZDNET article

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-were-adding-20000-new-sharepoint-users-a-day/9011

• Technet

• Twitter

• MS Forums

• http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/

And more help

Sharing Is The Point

Quite simply,

• SharePoint is a complex platform

• SharePoint Foundation is the free version to get started

Take aways

How about some questions???