We recently hosted a webinar on SharePoint’s social business capabilities and Microsoft’s social roadmap, SharePoint as a Social Business Platform. Guest speaker Rob Koplowitz from Forrester, and Perficient’s own SharePoint Practice Director, Rich Wood, dug into SharePoint from a social perspective, and shared their thoughts on where Microsoft is headed in terms of social business.
There’s no doubt – with the recent release of SharePoint 2013 and the possibilities that now exist thanks to the Yammer acquisition, when it comes to social business – Microsoft has come a long way fast.
To be competitive in the next generation of business, organizations must be able to share content, communication, and expertise across both geographical and organizational bounds. Rob explained that enterprise social is at a tipping point and expectations for social are critical. Social services are quickly becoming critical tools for knowledge workers, and SharePoint is a dominant tool in this space.
Based on Forrester’s research, in the past, SharePoint did many things quite well (sites, collaboration, search, content management) but lacked in social functionality. Due to the release of SharePoint 2013 and the Yammer acquisition, Microsoft is beginning to embrace the cloud and has new social capabilities, with SharePoint 2013 including many new social features, and Yammer providing innovation at the speed of the cloud and a consumer-like user experience.
The attendees asked great questions, and Rob and Rich wrapped up with enough time to answer quite a few of them. To listen to the webinar in its entirety, along with the Q&A portion, here is the replay:
You can also review the webinar slides, along with the poll results:
SharePoint as a Social Business Platform: Webinar Recap & Replay
by Taylor Rhyne on April 9th, 2013 | ~ minute read
