Keynote Address:

Navigating the SharePoint Ecosystem

SharePoint can boast a large, growing ecosystem of integrators, 3rd- party module vendors, and other Microsoft partners. The sheer size and diversity of that ecosystem is both impressive and overwhelming. Yet, successfully navigating this landscape is essential for enterprises making a serious commitment to the platform. SharePoint Watch co-founder Tony Byrne will offer a critical overview of the ecosystem, relevant for current SharePoint customers as well as those still evaluating the platform.

General Session:

SharePoint Is Hot! How to Set Your Strategy

SharePoint is an enterprise application that can provide an indispensible framework for managing enterprise data, documents, records and knowledge. The explosion of electronic systems and content in the past decade has made the organization of information both more critical and increasingly difficult. SharePoint can be an important element of a solution, often interoperating with other products and systems.

This presentation will provide independent expert views on developing a strategy and roadmap for effectively implementing a SharePoint solution. It will focus on best practices for creating a document, records and content framework using Microsoft SharePoint 2007 or 2010. Through an understanding how this framework needs to be developed within SharePoint, you will be better able to define relationships of other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Electronic Records Management (ERM) systems of importance to your organization.

Track A:

1A.  "Traditional" ECM Solutions Compete With or Add Value to SharePoint?

SharePoint is redefining the enterprise content management market. Yet many organizations continue to demand functionality that is not easily delivered by SharePoint alone.  In this session, you'll learn how to evaluate the capabilities of SharePoint and the offerings of traditional ECM vendors according to the problems these systems are optimized to solve. This presentation also highlights how some organizations are pursuing ECM strategies that combine the strengths of SharePoint with those of “traditional” ECM solutions.

2A.Transactional Capture for SharePoint ECM

When it comes to content, your business is probably like many are today - overwhelmed. From email, to documents to unstructured data, effective tools are the key to gaining control. Built on a solid foundation, KnowledgeLake extends Microsoft SharePoint to a fully functioning Document Imaging System.  Learn how to save money and reduce paper by leveraging your investment in the Microsoft SharePoint Platform.
 

The Immediate Benefits of a SharePoint ECM Solution include:

• Data Entry - Reduce labor indexing information
• Green - Reduce environmental impact by using less paper
• Economy - Reduce operational costs
• Distributed Capture - Reduce shipping and faxing
• Transactional Capture - Reduce processing time

3A. Use SharePoint for High-Value Document Management & Business Process Applications

With the introduction of SharePoint 2007, Microsoft has forever altered the traditional

Document Management and Workflow marketplace.  This session will explore how SharePoint’s rich features and

significant enhancements in SP 2010 now make SharePoint an attractive, cost-effective platform for deploying high-value

document management and business process applications across your entire business organization.

4A. Taxonomy, Records & Compliance in SP2010

Word on the street is that SharePoint 2010 has new and enhanced capabilities to help organizations manage their business records. But compliant records management doesn’t just happen –life cycle and retention requirements have to be understood, documented and integrated into the architecture and governance structures.  Come get a crash course of what you need to know if you are planning to use SharePoint 2010 as a repository for business records.  

Track B:

1B. Tricks, Tips, and Traps for SharePoint

Many organizations struggle to learn what they don’t know about SharePoint – often the hard way.  How many content databases should you have?  What happens to site created with the site template you just composed?  Why doesn’t search work properly?  Compounding this challenge is the differences between the existing 2007 version and the upcoming 2010 version.  Shawn Shell, Principal, Consejo, Inc. will present share key advice on rolling out SharePoint, helping you understand best practices for configuration, improving search, custom development and 3rd party add-ons.

2B. Concurrency Sneak Peek Demo - SharePoint 2010 ECM

See for yourself the powerful new features and capabilities of SharePoint 2010 during this sneak preview session.  Topics covered include:

• Document Management

• Records Management

• Content Management

• Knowledge Management

• Collaboration

• Search

• Social Computing

• Workflow/BPM 

3B. SharePoint Workflow and Business Process Automation

This presentation will demonstrate ways SharePoint 2010 helps you optimize your business process: by eliminating or replacing labor intensive tasks, integrating applications, and eliminating unnecessary steps.

• De-mystify SharePoint 2010 as an electronic forms and workflow platform
• Demonstrate the value of SharePoint-based workflows and composite applications
• Unveil new features in SharePoint 2010 that deliver for workflow, forms, and business process automation
• What's in the toolbox
• What can you build?  What should you build?
• Inspire you by showing SharePoint workflow applications in action
• Provide practical advice for using SharePoint as a workflow platform

4B. End User Lessons Learned, Getting Projects Started

This presentation is primarily from the perspective of a project and information manager and the lessons learned in rolling out SharePoint to an organization.  This presentation will identify some key issues that a project team should take into consideration when implementing SharePoint.  Governance, security, defining roles and responsibilities, and the importance of good project management are some of the elements that will be addressed.  SharePoint can add organization and efficiency to the management of your corporate information, or it can accelerate the mismanagement of it.  While it is important to have a competent technology team in place, the success of your SharePoint project will probably be based more on how well you address issues not related to technology. 

Track C:

1C. Web Content Mgmt in SP2010
SharePoint 2010 brings tremendous improvements in usability, enhanced functionality and development capabilities.  Risetime will focus this session on changes to the web content management capabilities and how these can be leveraged by your organization. We will include a live demo with a deep dive into SharePoint as a web publishing platform.

2C. Evaluating Enterprise Social Computing & Collaboration in SP2010

Although collaboration has always been a core service in SharePoint, the platform has seen mixed success in this area through SP 2007, especially since Microsoft arrived rather late to the Social Computing party. Of course, SP 2010 represents a revised set of offerings for Collaboration and Social Networking. This session will outline how they stack up against SP 2010, as well as competing offerings in the marketplace.

3C. Ten Essentials for SharePoint Intranet Success

It’s all too easy for SharePoint intranet projects to fail.  Learn these 10 keys to making your SharePoint intranet deployment a success.  Michael Blumenthal, SharePoint Architect and Senior Consultant, with Magenic, a Microsoft Gold Partner and national systems integrator, will share his enthusiasm for SharePoint and the lessons he has learned from seven years of implementing SharePoint solutions for customers as well as provide you these ten guidelines for avoiding common SharePoint pitfalls.

4C. Enterprise Search – The Holy Grail of ECM

Enterprise Search from Microsoft offers best-in-class technologies and cutting-edge innovations that fuel our vision of search: connecting people to information through engaging experiences that drive better results. Our compelling set of enterprise search offerings meets the varying needs of our customers, provides upgrade paths as those needs change, and inspires customers to incorporate search in innovative ways into their workplaces to drive revenue and power business results.  While focusing on search from a business revenue generating perspective, the presentation will highlight and demonstrate both public (externally facing solutions) as well as internal SharePoint with FAST search solutions.