https://blogs.perficient.com/2013/03/20/microsofts-social-roadmap-the-upshot-for-on-premise-sharepoint/ Expert Digital Insights Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:50:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://blogs.perficient.com/2013/03/20/microsofts-social-roadmap-the-upshot-for-on-premise-sharepoint/#comment-4017 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:50:38 +0000 http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/?p=17652#comment-4017 Thanks, Christophe! Always flattered that you keep up with and comment on the blog. We appreciate your patronage.
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#1, This was a misunderstanding of Jared’s post on my part and I’ve edited to reflect that. Thank you for clarifying.
#2, I definitely agree. Everything I’ve seen and heard on Yammer/O365/AD SSO to date is promising, but as you note, these projects are always tricky. I know our guys are looking into this for some customers today and it’s exciting, but also something to approach with care.
#3, I suspect we’re in agreement insofar as it’s a maturity conversation. This is what I meant by “organizations just getting started on social, or not committed to social collaboration”– those who are not yet mature in this space. For them I think SP 2013 is fine, and it’s passable even for those with more social maturity. That said, I don’t think it’s best in class and orgs that have extensively used social tools before will want more than that. In the cloud, we can address this if we augment via the Yammer app marketplace with apps like Badgeville, but on-prem that requires either traditional third-party products or installation of similar apps from the Office Store.

]]> https://blogs.perficient.com/2013/03/20/microsofts-social-roadmap-the-upshot-for-on-premise-sharepoint/#comment-4016 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:41:15 +0000 http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/?p=17652#comment-4016 Rich good write-up + a few comments: #1 not sure I understand your analysis, you are looking at it from the lens of IT? To an end user it will surface the feed in the same SP location they are using every day. Most customers today are happily using this hybrid approach with the existing Yammer web part(see the case studies on the Yammer site). 2. Identity is always a complex subject to address, back in the days when I was a consultant even for on-prem apps it was tricky sometimes to get trust relationship across AD for instance. This is a much bigger project that spans other online offerings such as Windows Azure and other on-premises products but overall I do think we are moving forward specially with 2013 & the new Office 365 see this for instance: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219758.aspx for #3 You could also argue it’s a maturity discussion and there are different needs within any organizations and plenty of customers are very happy with the new SP 2013 social capabilities.

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