SHAREPOINTPRESENT AND FUTURE

CURRENT ENVIRONMENT

SharePoint 2010 5 server farm

Enterprise features for all users

Excel Services

InfoPath forms

Access Services

Etc.

110 Site Collections oiti.byu.edu

politicalscience.byu.edu

cpmsrankandstatus.byu.edu

budget.byu.edu

digitaltransformation.byu.edu

history.byu.edu

CURRENT ORIENTATION

CURRENT LIMITATIONS

Theming is hard

Web services Hard to consume from server-side

Only support for basic auth

SOAP

Not compatible with our SOA Registry

Business Intelligence functions not fully-enabled

Interference with HTML by SharePoint

Browser Compatibility

SSO with CAS

Document Storage capacity and large files

Time for training and material for training

Developer Sandbox is not very powerful

UNTAPPED POTENTIAL

BYU Template

YouTube web part and media

Streaming media integration

Business Intelligence and Microsoft Reporting Stack

Search federation

Automate more system functions with PowerShell

Workflow tools

ROADMAP

On-Premises Hosted

RADICAL EMPOWERMENT WITH WORKFLOW

We need workflow tools for every department secretary and every ambitious student employee

Automate and regularize every cumbersome paper process

SHAREPOINT 2013 BENEFITS

More social features Yammer will eventually become central to the platform

People search, skills search, user profiles, My Sites

Tagging and rating content

New App model for 3rd party apps Apps aren’t installed on the SharePoint farm, but only authorized

there

Microsoft provides a new app store

Servers will be cheap, so we can build out custom farms for special purposes CALs are still tricky because students aren’t covered for the

enterprise level features