wired2win: sharepoint_social_enterprise

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Extending SharePoint for Enterprise Social

Collaboration


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Extending SharePoint for Enterprise Social

CollaborationVineet Arora

Chief Technology OfficerWinWire Technologies

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What will we cover…

Evolution of Enterprise Social Platform

Social Collaboration technologies

SharePoint and 3rd party social software platform

Best practices in choosing the platform


Shift towards Social Technology Investments

Source: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011

Traditional IT investment• 25% or less who are planning investments

in ERP, HCM, product life-cycle management (PLM), and SCM app categories

People- or network- centric solutions• 37% of IT decision-makers plan to

implement or expand the use of social collaboration tools in 2011


Strategic Business goals are driving new breed of technology investment

Enterprise Social Platform

Workforce Productivity

Encouraging Innovation

Social Collaboration


Drivers of Enterprise Social Collaboration

The desire to capture and re-use knowledge

The need to maintain human

connections across a

disparate workforce

The pressure to modernize

systems to meet new workforce

demands


State of Enterprise Social Today

Sharepoint is de-facto platform for internal collaboration but offers limited social collaboration features

Tech-savvy workforce expect similar enterprise collaboration experience as facebook, twitter etc.

Business groups demand this from IT else implement their own 3rd party solution…

IT team struggling to choose best social collaboration platform to meet disparate needs while maintaining core IT


3 Distinct Approaches to enable a ‘Social Enterprise’

Eliminate ‘Islands of

Interaction’

Enable SharePoint

Social features

Integrate SharePoint +

Social collaboration

platform

Deploy 3rd party solution

parallel to SharePoint

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http://www.socialtext.com/index.php


Sharepoint ‘Social’ features

Team Collaboration

sites

Document workspace

Discussion forums

Content repository with meta tagging

Content and People Search

MySite with profile and

organization structure

MySite – Newsfeed,

activities and tags


Sharepoint ‘MySite’ Social features

Corporate profiles

Recent Activities

Follow Activity

Colleagues

Social Bookmarks


Social Network solution features

Micro blogging

One-to-one collaboration

Social profiles

‘Activity feeds’ enabled at different levels

Public and private communities/groups

User generated content – Blogs & wikis

Polls and other interactive functions


Social networking platform (Yammer/Newsgator/Socialtext)

‘Facebook’ for the enterprise

Activities

Groups

Social profiles

Parallel ‘Intranet’


Best of both worlds (Sharepoint + Social Platform)

An integrated social collaboration and information exchange platform

Company, personal and team sites/community feeds

MySite with micro-blogging, feeds and social profiles

Seamlessly integrate document with news feeds

Search results include Social conversations


Social Platform features for Sharepoint

Webparts to integrate feeds, polls, events with Sharepoint web pages

Link with content in document libraries from feeds

Extend and provide richer blogs and wikis platform

Enable automatic authentication using Sharepoint profile

Post messages, polls, events and links to Yammer directly from SharePoint

Deploy along with Sharepoint or use SaaS model


Choosing the best Social Platform

Availability of UI customization options

Flexibility in securing content

Level of integration with Sharepoint content

Extensibility features e.g. mashup

Ease of management by business groups

Deployment model options (SaaS vs. Onprem)

Mobile access and integration


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