Posts Tagged ‘sharepoint conference’

Matt Feczko and Ben Wilde focused on real life scenario on how social will work.  They include: Asking and answering questions Managing multiple projects Working with documents Finding our more about people The whole concept is that social should make life easier. It should improve employee engagement, team collaboration, and business agility.  However, all of […]

Mark Kashman (@mkashman) presented on mobile and SharePoint. Like everyone else, Microsoft sees the mobile revolution with 1 billion devices, 82% of the online population using social and 50% being on the road to the cloud. When they think of SharePoint mobile they think of it in three different ways. That includes mobile browser, native apps, and […]

Mark Kashman (@mkashman), Senior Product Manager at Microsoft presented on the New SharePoint Online (e.g. as part of Office 365).  It’s currently in a preview mode so it’s only in three data centers but it will launch next year. This version is the first version designed as part of a service rather than a product […]

I’ve been very interested in SkyDrive because of it’s obvious overlap with Dropbox.  We’ve even blogged about Dropbox and similar tools here, here,  and here.  The bottom line is that if all you want to do is share a file, then a web interface just won’t work.  Instead, you want to sync your files across […]

My first session focused on the business value of SharePoint.  I wanted to hear what an expert has to say to business people about making a case for investment not only in SharePoint but in the actual solutions that would be supplied by SharePoint.  But first, here are some quick stats: 125 Million licenses fastest […]

As expected, Microsoft had a lot to highlight in their two hour key note.   Rich Wood graciously let me capture the highlights of the entire session while he will hit on a few topics to give them justice.  But first, the stats: 10,000 attendees From 85 countries 200 sponsors and exhibitors It started out […]

Well, it’s about time.  It looks like SharePoint and Exchange are finally integrated in the ways users have been wanting for years now– tasks, document sharing and e-Discovery. Some of the most common questions I’ve fielded over the last few years, both as a consultant and a SharePoint specialist at Microsoft, have concerned getting these […]

The SharePoint Conference kicks off on Sunday November 11th and the Perficient team will be there in force. From demo’s showing what can be accomplished with SharePoint 2013, our Rockstar giveaway where someone will win a Home Theater System to interactive sessions with community members, booth 904 will be a hub of activity. From the […]

Yep, you read that right.  Development on SharePoint 2013 (as part of the larger Office 2013 family of products) is DONE and it’s being released to the market very, very soon. Read the whole story on Kirk Koenigsbauer’s blog.  The key note here is for enterprise customers: “Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be […]

Since this is the week for Sharepoint’s conference, I thought I would track the news from the conference. Quick hits and info: Microsoft has sold 125 million licenses of sharepoint Sharepoint 2010 has sold 62 million licenses so far SharePoint by itself would be one of the top 50 software firms 67% of firms have […]

SharePoint 2010 is official! The SharePoint Conference is underway in Vegas.   Pointbridge has posted quite a few SP2010 blog entries – see them here: Office 2010 Wave Blogs     I contributed three so far myself: Quick Managed Metadata Overview Enforcing Relationships in Lookup Columns Column Validation in SharePoint 2010