Innovative Use of SharePoint in Different Field

United Airlines- Central Deployment

United Airlines is one of the well-known and leading airlines with over 85,000 employees, participated in the SharePoint Server 2013 Rapid Deployment Program. The program build to provide advice or feedback about the customer’s airline’s experience in its WAN environment. Simultaneously, it also allowed each customer to reduce their server footprint while providing an outstanding social collaboration experience. Moreover team developed a new procurement tool that is based on taxonomy and additional features in SharePoint 2013.

United Airlines’ team trust on SharePoint sites to complete job-related tasks including the 379 global airports. Even the whole route map for the airline which shows the geographic environment is served by a centralized SharePoint farm.

Ref: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh206325

University of West London - Social Learning

University of West London (UWL) decided to create a student portal by using SharePoint. A platform that allows students to interact with each other safely and which create academically driven environment.

To keep this thing in mind an online portal is created using SharePoint for better collaboration between staff, students and administration, and to make the things and services available at anytime, anywhere & from any device. The student portal has so many features, range of tools, services under one platform i.e. My UWL branding. (My Email, My Site, My SkyDrive, My School, My Noticeboard, My Connections, My Marks, My Timetable, My Personal Details, My Modules, My Pebble pad, My Calendar, My Graduation, My Software Deals).My site was similar to social networking platform like Facebook.

Ref: ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg/sharepoint

University of Essex -Student Recruitment

University of Essex started 2 year SharePoint project to store and use the central students file. They replaced their paper based document record with an Electronic Student File hosted in SharePoint. A two year SharePoint project was started at university of Essex to store and use the University’s central student files for editing and updating files and other sources into a single electronic file. The aim of creating Electronic files is to keep them safe and they can never be misplaced or misfiled. With SharePoint it is also possible to manage registry process from initiation to completion.

By the time SharePoint used for monitoring academic selectors’ approval of applications, interview results and disability needs valuation. Which lead to significant savings in staff time and reduction in paper files.

After the implementation of electronic files for undergraduates, the University turned its attention to postgraduate applications. These benefits of SharePoint resulted into unexpectedly positive degree.

Ref: ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg/sharepoint

D & M Holdings Inc. - Enhances Images, Cuts Cost 

D&M manufactures various brand of exclusive consumer electronics including Denon and Marantz. Now the company required to streamline the management of its brand website to increase the sales and reduce the cost. Hence D&M Holdings selected Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for internet sites. With the amazing feature of SharePoint the company has combined nine different platform into one, and created unified brand image. Resultant of it is website user experience has improved.

Ref: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/111176438/Omnie-Solutions-Implemented-MicroSoft-SharePoint-2010-for-D-and-M-Holdings-Company

Hence, this are some case studies defining the importance of SharePoint since many years, there are many more unique features of SharePoint which will lead users by surprise.

Innovative Use of SharePoint in Different Field

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United Airlines- Central Deployment

United Airlines is one of the well-known and leading airlines with over 85,000 employees, participated in the SharePoint Server 2013 Rapid Deployment Program. The program build to provide advice or feedback about the customer’s airline’s experience in its WAN environment. Simultaneously, it also allowed each customer to reduce their server footprint while providing an outstanding social collaboration experience. Moreover team developed a new procurement tool that is based on taxonomy and additional features in SharePoint 2013.

United Airlines’ team trust on SharePoint sites to complete job-related tasks including the 379 global airports. Even the whole route map for the airline which shows the geographic environment is served by a centralized SharePoint farm.

Ref: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh206325

University of West London - Social Learning

University of West London (UWL) decided to create a student portal by using SharePoint. A platform that allows students to interact with each other safely and which create academically driven environment.

To keep this thing in mind an online portal is created using SharePoint for better collaboration between staff, students and administration, and to make the things and services available at anytime, anywhere & from any device. The student portal has so many features, range of tools, services under one platform i.e. My UWL branding. (My Email, My Site, My SkyDrive, My School, My Noticeboard, My Connections, My Marks, My Timetable, My Personal Details, My Modules, My Pebble pad, My Calendar, My Graduation, My Software Deals).My site was similar to social networking platform like Facebook.

Ref: ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg/sharepoint

University of Essex -Student Recruitment

University of Essex started 2 year SharePoint project to store and use the central students file. They replaced their paper based document record with an Electronic Student File hosted in SharePoint. A two year SharePoint project was started at university of Essex to store and use the University’s central student files for editing and updating files and other sources into a single electronic file. The aim of creating Electronic files is to keep them safe and they can never be misplaced or misfiled. With SharePoint it is also possible to manage registry process from initiation to completion.

By the time SharePoint used for monitoring academic selectors’ approval of applications, interview results and disability needs valuation. Which lead to significant savings in staff time and reduction in paper files.

After the implementation of electronic files for undergraduates, the University turned its attention to postgraduate applications. These benefits of SharePoint resulted into unexpectedly positive degree.

Ref: ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg/sharepoint

D & M Holdings Inc. - Enhances Images, Cuts Cost 

D&M manufactures various brand of exclusive consumer electronics including Denon and Marantz. Now the company required to streamline the management of its brand website to increase the sales and reduce the cost. Hence D&M Holdings selected Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for internet sites. With the amazing feature of SharePoint the company has combined nine different platform into one, and created unified brand image. Resultant of it is website user experience has improved.

Ref: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/111176438/Omnie-Solutions-Implemented-MicroSoft-SharePoint-2010-for-D-and-M-Holdings-Company

Hence, this are some case studies defining the importance of SharePoint since many years, there are many more unique features of SharePoint which will lead users by surprise.

Why .Net and SharePoint are the Right Platform for Enterprise Application Development?

 Whenever it comes to the enterprise applications like ERP, CRM or any financial software etc. small organizations have this misconception that it is supposedly only for the large corporations mainly because of the development and implementing cost attach to these software. But the truth is, today the software development market has grown so far that it has bridged all the barriers between the customers and developers and has given technologies which are most cost-effective, realistic and delivering the goal and custom developed applications.

Why .Net and SharePoint are the Right Platform for Enterprise Application Development?

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 Whenever it comes to the enterprise applications like ERP, CRM or any financial software etc. small organizations have this misconception that it is supposedly only for the large corporations mainly because of the development and implementing cost attach to these software. But the truth is, today the software development market has grown so far that it has bridged all the barriers between the customers and developers and has given technologies which are most cost-effective, realistic and delivering the goal and custom developed applications.

What is Yammer and Its Relation to SharePoint 2013?

According wiki’s definition Yammer is a freemium enterprise social network service that was launched in 2008 and sold to Microsoft at 1.2 billion in 2012. Yammer is a remote communication mode in between the organization. With a Yammer, you’re always connected to your coworkers, and can take part in the information flow and conversations. Get into your network to find what exactly you need and determine or find out that you didn’t know to make decisions quickly, and later get the work done and keep moving.

Today social media networking is not just making an impact on our day to day life but even organizations are taking big decisions over these enterprise social networking. According to Gartner, over 75% of Fortune 1000 companies will undertake some kind of online social-networking initiative for marketing or customer relations purposes by 2014. In today’s article we will discuss why Microsoft bought Yammer and what is the relation between Yammer and SharePoint 2013.

 When we talk about SharePoint 2010 its features and social networking were pretty elementary. At this point of time many organizations felt embarrassed and had turn to other third party vendors like Yammer and NewsGator for the social networking within the organization. But here buying Yammer gave Microsoft that insight of being a cut-throat competitor in the enterprise of social space and was an indication to the market that they are willing to take any bold steps when it comes to business. Yammer has been adopted by many organizations and brought fortune of experience around this social enterprise. Before that social functionality was almost in a nonexistent state when organizations were using SharePoint 2010 and here Microsoft buying Yammer into the industry showcased an impact and presence where they were desperately needed to make big moves.

But when SharePoint introduced 2013 they actually learnt from their previous mistakes and they came with a portal integrated with fully advance features and social networking. Personally speaking, you won’t find any major difference if you compare Yammer and SharePoint 2013. However, SharePoint 2013 has extended all the social media features which allows you to create community sites, post micro-blogs, use hash tags with #, and mention colleague’s name with @ and communities etc.; but if we compare it with Yammer or NewsGator its still require more of improvements and advancements.

The biggest advantage of Yammer over SharePoint is cost effectiveness. Yammer gives free networking, collaboration. You can access Yammer from anywhere. But with the fall of 2013 it got integrated with SP 2013 to provide more connections and features. Although, there isn’t a much clear story about this integration of Yammer and SharePoint 2013 experience. If I like to contribute in this personally, I can see Yammer, Office 365, and SharePoint Online integrating really well and have lots of potential in becoming a dynamic, collaborative social online environment.

However if we look further deep into this, for the clients who are using on-premise installations of SharePoint, they will either end up with some unrealistic Yammer integration paired with overpowering SharePoint social features, or may be SharePoint social features on their own. For organizations that have yet to dip into any significant enterprise social technologies, SharePoint 2013 will likely be sufficient as they wade into the social enterprise space. Nevertheless, it’s always sensible to go for any technology first looking at your work culture and notion. If it’s fit into the ideology and seems cost effective and have the capabilities to make your system seamless then one should go for such technology without thinking twice. At the end I am just leaving an open ended question for you all; so which will you use? Yammer, or SharePoint 2013 Social?

co-produced with the help of a web app development company that expertise in enterprise application development using SharePoint 2013.

What is Yammer and Its Relation to SharePoint 2013?

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According wiki’s definition Yammer is a freemium enterprise social network service that was launched in 2008 and sold to Microsoft at 1.2 billion in 2012. Yammer is a remote communication mode in between the organization. With a Yammer, you’re always connected to your coworkers, and can take part in the information flow and conversations. Get into your network to find what exactly you need and determine or find out that you didn’t know to make decisions quickly, and later get the work done and keep moving.

Today social media networking is not just making an impact on our day to day life but even organizations are taking big decisions over these enterprise social networking. According to Gartner, over 75% of Fortune 1000 companies will undertake some kind of online social-networking initiative for marketing or customer relations purposes by 2014. In today’s article we will discuss why Microsoft bought Yammer and what is the relation between Yammer and SharePoint 2013.

 When we talk about SharePoint 2010 its features and social networking were pretty elementary. At this point of time many organizations felt embarrassed and had turn to other third party vendors like Yammer and NewsGator for the social networking within the organization. But here buying Yammer gave Microsoft that insight of being a cut-throat competitor in the enterprise of social space and was an indication to the market that they are willing to take any bold steps when it comes to business. Yammer has been adopted by many organizations and brought fortune of experience around this social enterprise. Before that social functionality was almost in a nonexistent state when organizations were using SharePoint 2010 and here Microsoft buying Yammer into the industry showcased an impact and presence where they were desperately needed to make big moves.

But when SharePoint introduced 2013 they actually learnt from their previous mistakes and they came with a portal integrated with fully advance features and social networking. Personally speaking, you won’t find any major difference if you compare Yammer and SharePoint 2013. However, SharePoint 2013 has extended all the social media features which allows you to create community sites, post micro-blogs, use hash tags with #, and mention colleague’s name with @ and communities etc.; but if we compare it with Yammer or NewsGator its still require more of improvements and advancements.

The biggest advantage of Yammer over SharePoint is cost effectiveness. Yammer gives free networking, collaboration. You can access Yammer from anywhere. But with the fall of 2013 it got integrated with SP 2013 to provide more connections and features. Although, there isn’t a much clear story about this integration of Yammer and SharePoint 2013 experience. If I like to contribute in this personally, I can see Yammer, Office 365, and SharePoint Online integrating really well and have lots of potential in becoming a dynamic, collaborative social online environment.

However if we look further deep into this, for the clients who are using on-premise installations of SharePoint, they will either end up with some unrealistic Yammer integration paired with overpowering SharePoint social features, or may be SharePoint social features on their own. For organizations that have yet to dip into any significant enterprise social technologies, SharePoint 2013 will likely be sufficient as they wade into the social enterprise space. Nevertheless, it’s always sensible to go for any technology first looking at your work culture and notion. If it’s fit into the ideology and seems cost effective and have the capabilities to make your system seamless then one should go for such technology without thinking twice. At the end I am just leaving an open ended question for you all; so which will you use? Yammer, or SharePoint 2013 Social?

co-produced with the help of a web app development company that expertise in enterprise application development using SharePoint 2013.

What is SharePoint Newsfeed App in SharePoint 2013 and What Can You Do with It?

When SharePoint 2013 was launched it came with many interesting features and mobile capabilities which helped people to work in team more productively. In this, one of the feature is SharePoint Newsfeed. It is nothing but a form of social media for the enterprise people which helps users to stay in touch with their enterprise social network on SharePoint itself through tablets and mobile phones etc., by straining posts and comments on a site feed and providing the ability to take part in all the conversations which are required.

It was initially available in some precise SharePoint configurations including SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365 SharePoint Online, Newsfeed is a new tool that lets you see what’s going on in your organization throughout the day, as well as share your own ideas, updates and observations. After this, it was introduced for iOS platforms and other mobile platforms and later they also introduced it for Windows 8.

What is SharePoint Newsfeed App in SharePoint 2013 and What Can You Do with It?

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When SharePoint 2013 was launched it came with many interesting features and mobile capabilities which helped people to work in team more productively. In this, one of the feature is SharePoint Newsfeed. It is nothing but a form of social media for the enterprise people which helps users to stay in touch with their enterprise social network on SharePoint itself through tablets and mobile phones etc., by straining posts and comments on a site feed and providing the ability to take part in all the conversations which are required.

It was initially available in some precise SharePoint configurations including SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365 SharePoint Online, Newsfeed is a new tool that lets you see what’s going on in your organization throughout the day, as well as share your own ideas, updates and observations. After this, it was introduced for iOS platforms and other mobile platforms and later they also introduced it for Windows 8.

List Event Handlers In SP 2013 To Perform Duplicate Check

While implementing practical solutions as a SharePoint consultant, the need to perform duplicate checks of different lists is a very common scenario.

Here is a real world example you may come across. Your client needs two lists, one to store regional information and one to store country specific information. The regional list, along with different information pertaining to a region, will also store an acronym for that region (e.g. EMEA, APAC, etc.). Similarly, the country list also will store the country acronym (FR, RU, IN, etc.) among other relevant country information. And this acronym data will be used in many places to accomplish many business requirements.

In most cases, we can easily utilize the OOB concept to validate the uniqueness of the columns. But to validate across different lists we need to provide some customization. We can achieve this in various ways.

In this article we will handle this validation through the event handler. We are assuming that a project from a SharePoint template is already created.

As shown in the image below, firstly we’re going to add an event receiver, select the list to which the event handler needs to work , check the item added and item being updated (as we need to validate during edits as well).

Please repeat this for the regional list as well.

Now we will write our validation code in the event receiver. Let us write for the “Adding” scenario first. In this code we will check if the acronym exists in the other list, if yes, we will cancel the addition. The code will be as shown below. Please update the column names as appropriate.

public override void ItemAdding(SPItemEventProperties properties)
        {
            base.ItemAdding(properties);
           
           
            properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"] = ((string)(properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"])).Trim();
            string newAcronym = ((string)(properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym "])).Trim();

            if (!CheckDuplicateAcronym(properties.List, properties.ListItemUniqueId, newAcronym, "Ctry_Acronym", "Text"))
            {
                //check in Country Profiles list
                SPList LegalEntityProfilesList = properties.Web.Lists.TryGetList("Country Profiles");
                if (CheckDuplicateAcronym(LegalEntityProfilesList, new Guid(), newAcronym, "country", "Text"))
                {
                    //cancel the event with error
                    properties.ErrorMessage = "Acronym already exist";
                    properties.Status = SPEventReceiverStatus.CancelWithError;
                    return;
                }
            }
        }

The generic duplicate checking function
public static bool CheckDuplicateAcronym(SPList List, Guid ItemId, string NewAcronym, string AcronymFieldName, string AcronymFieldType)
        {
            bool bAcronymExists = false;
            try
            {
                SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
                query.Query = @"<Where>" +
                    "<Eq>" +
                    "<FieldRef Name='" + AcronymFieldName + "' />" +
                    "<Value Type='" + AcronymFieldType + "'>" + NewAcronym + "</Value>" +
                    "</Eq>" +
                    "</Where>";

                SPListItemCollection items = List.GetItems(query);
                if (items != null)
                {
                    if (items.Count > 1)
                    {
                        bAcronymExists = true;
                    }
                    else if (items.Count == 1)
                    {
                        bAcronymExists = !(items[0].UniqueId == ItemId);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        bAcronymExists = false;
                    }
                }
            }
            catch { }
            return bAcronymExists;

        }

The code is written in such a way that you can reuse this function for any list or for any field type by passing the relevant parameters. Even this function will take care of the updating scenario duplicate validation.
Next we’ll write the updating part of the code, as shown below. In the updating scenario we will pass the unique ID of the item rather than new GUID which we passed in the above adding scenario.
public override void ItemUpdating(SPItemEventProperties properties)
        {
            base.ItemUpdating(properties);
            properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"] = ((string)(properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"])).Trim();

            string newAcronym = ((string)(properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"])).Trim();
            if (0 != string.Compare(newAcronym, properties.ListItem["Country_Acronym"].ToString(), true))
            {

                if (!CheckDuplicateAcronym(properties.List, properties.ListItemUniqueId, newAcronym, "Ctry_Acronym", "Text"))
                {
                   
                    SPList LegalEntityProfilesList = properties.Web.Lists.TryGetList("Country Profiles");
                    if (CheckDuplicateAcronym(LegalEntityProfilesList, new Guid(), newAcronym, "country", "Text"))
                    {
                        //cancel the event with error
                        properties.ErrorMessage = "the Acronym value already exist";
                        properties.Status = SPEventReceiverStatus.CancelWithError;
                        return;

                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    //cancel the event with error
                    properties.ErrorMessage = "the Acronym value already exist";
                    properties.Status = SPEventReceiverStatus.CancelWithError;

                }
            }

        }

That’s it! This event receiver can now be reused for duplicate validation of any number of lists.

Authored by:

Alvin Ubiera is a Microsoft SharePoint Technologist at the Houston-based business software provider, Rand Group and is a regular contributor to Dynamics 101. He hails from the sunny Dominican Republic and has varied experience in architecture, web development, and SharePoint.

List Event Handlers In SP 2013 To Perform Duplicate Check

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While implementing practical solutions as a SharePoint consultant, the need to perform duplicate checks of different lists is a very common scenario.

Here is a real world example you may come across. Your client needs two lists, one to store regional information and one to store country specific information. The regional list, along with different information pertaining to a region, will also store an acronym for that region (e.g. EMEA, APAC, etc.). Similarly, the country list also will store the country acronym (FR, RU, IN, etc.) among other relevant country information. And this acronym data will be used in many places to accomplish many business requirements.

In most cases, we can easily utilize the OOB concept to validate the uniqueness of the columns. But to validate across different lists we need to provide some customization. We can achieve this in various ways.

In this article we will handle this validation through the event handler. We are assuming that a project from a SharePoint template is already created.

As shown in the image below, firstly we’re going to add an event receiver, select the list to which the event handler needs to work , check the item added and item being updated (as we need to validate during edits as well).

Please repeat this for the regional list as well.

Now we will write our validation code in the event receiver. Let us write for the “Adding” scenario first. In this code we will check if the acronym exists in the other list, if yes, we will cancel the addition. The code will be as shown below. Please update the column names as appropriate.

public override void ItemAdding(SPItemEventProperties properties)
        {
            base.ItemAdding(properties);
           
           
            properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"] = ((string)(properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"])).Trim();
            string newAcronym = ((string)(properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym "])).Trim();

            if (!CheckDuplicateAcronym(properties.List, properties.ListItemUniqueId, newAcronym, "Ctry_Acronym", "Text"))
            {
                //check in Country Profiles list
                SPList LegalEntityProfilesList = properties.Web.Lists.TryGetList("Country Profiles");
                if (CheckDuplicateAcronym(LegalEntityProfilesList, new Guid(), newAcronym, "country", "Text"))
                {
                    //cancel the event with error
                    properties.ErrorMessage = "Acronym already exist";
                    properties.Status = SPEventReceiverStatus.CancelWithError;
                    return;
                }
            }
        }

The generic duplicate checking function
public static bool CheckDuplicateAcronym(SPList List, Guid ItemId, string NewAcronym, string AcronymFieldName, string AcronymFieldType)
        {
            bool bAcronymExists = false;
            try
            {
                SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
                query.Query = @"<Where>" +
                    "<Eq>" +
                    "<FieldRef Name='" + AcronymFieldName + "' />" +
                    "<Value Type='" + AcronymFieldType + "'>" + NewAcronym + "</Value>" +
                    "</Eq>" +
                    "</Where>";

                SPListItemCollection items = List.GetItems(query);
                if (items != null)
                {
                    if (items.Count > 1)
                    {
                        bAcronymExists = true;
                    }
                    else if (items.Count == 1)
                    {
                        bAcronymExists = !(items[0].UniqueId == ItemId);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        bAcronymExists = false;
                    }
                }
            }
            catch { }
            return bAcronymExists;

        }

The code is written in such a way that you can reuse this function for any list or for any field type by passing the relevant parameters. Even this function will take care of the updating scenario duplicate validation.
Next we’ll write the updating part of the code, as shown below. In the updating scenario we will pass the unique ID of the item rather than new GUID which we passed in the above adding scenario.
public override void ItemUpdating(SPItemEventProperties properties)
        {
            base.ItemUpdating(properties);
            properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"] = ((string)(properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"])).Trim();

            string newAcronym = ((string)(properties.AfterProperties["Country_Acronym"])).Trim();
            if (0 != string.Compare(newAcronym, properties.ListItem["Country_Acronym"].ToString(), true))
            {

                if (!CheckDuplicateAcronym(properties.List, properties.ListItemUniqueId, newAcronym, "Ctry_Acronym", "Text"))
                {
                   
                    SPList LegalEntityProfilesList = properties.Web.Lists.TryGetList("Country Profiles");
                    if (CheckDuplicateAcronym(LegalEntityProfilesList, new Guid(), newAcronym, "country", "Text"))
                    {
                        //cancel the event with error
                        properties.ErrorMessage = "the Acronym value already exist";
                        properties.Status = SPEventReceiverStatus.CancelWithError;
                        return;

                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    //cancel the event with error
                    properties.ErrorMessage = "the Acronym value already exist";
                    properties.Status = SPEventReceiverStatus.CancelWithError;

                }
            }

        }

That’s it! This event receiver can now be reused for duplicate validation of any number of lists.

Authored by:

Alvin Ubiera is a Microsoft SharePoint Technologist at the Houston-based business software provider, Rand Group and is a regular contributor to Dynamics 101. He hails from the sunny Dominican Republic and has varied experience in architecture, web development, and SharePoint.

Significance of Using SharePoint for Public Facing Websites

Public facing websites are not password-protected or in other words are not blocked from the general Internet. It is freely accessible by all internet users. It has all the information about the company's business, their products and services, contact information, company history and even may have links to other related web sites of their company. It is an information source about a company for its customers and its partners.

Microsoft is still claiming SharePoint Server as the fastest growing product in company history; they have claimed there are so many fortune 500 companies that have built their public facing websites on SharePoint. SharePoint usage is widely spread due to its complex collaboration structure and its flexibility. From enterprise search, enterprise content management (ECM), Business Process Management, business intelligence, records management, archiving, Intranet/Extranet, file sharing to public-facing websites etc. list of few companies using SharePoint for public facing websites are – ConocoPhillips, Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Valero Energy, Dell, Kraft Foods, Viacom, and more.

Significance of Using SharePoint for Public Facing Websites

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Public facing websites are not password-protected or in other words are not blocked from the general Internet. It is freely accessible by all internet users. It has all the information about the company's business, their products and services, contact information, company history and even may have links to other related web sites of their company. It is an information source about a company for its customers and its partners.

Microsoft is still claiming SharePoint Server as the fastest growing product in company history; they have claimed there are so many fortune 500 companies that have built their public facing websites on SharePoint. SharePoint usage is widely spread due to its complex collaboration structure and its flexibility. From enterprise search, enterprise content management (ECM), Business Process Management, business intelligence, records management, archiving, Intranet/Extranet, file sharing to public-facing websites etc. list of few companies using SharePoint for public facing websites are – ConocoPhillips, Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Valero Energy, Dell, Kraft Foods, Viacom, and more.

App Development Models of SharePoint 2013

Microsoft has big plans to move towards SaaS (software-as-a-service) model. The latest version of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 has seen many improvement in comparison to 2010 version of SharePoint. Microsoft is in the progression of emerging a model which allows users to have an

instant access of SharePoint.

Over a period of time, Microsoft is able to understand what their customers expect from them. Keeping the need of the market in mind, they have launched SharePoint 2013. This version allows user to create, translate and manage domain-specific content from various online sources from intranet and internet.

App Development Models of SharePoint 2013

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Microsoft has big plans to move towards SaaS (software-as-a-service) model. The latest version of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 has seen many improvement in comparison to 2010 version of SharePoint. Microsoft is in the progression of emerging a model which allows users to have an

instant access of SharePoint.

Over a period of time, Microsoft is able to understand what their customers expect from them. Keeping the need of the market in mind, they have launched SharePoint 2013. This version allows user to create, translate and manage domain-specific content from various online sources from intranet and internet.

Significance of SharePoint 2013 in Providing Organization 2.0

The previous versions of Microsoft SharePoint were launched so that they could expedite content search via content web query, however there was a constraint to it as searches could not be found on site collections. Now the latest version, SharePoint 2013 by using third party connectors can easily index site content from various sources such as websites, file shares, lotus notes. SharePoint 2013 has been developed by Microsoft to build up a single warehouse or source of index. It provides single enterprise search center experience to the user preventing need to visit different applications to search similar information and hence saves time.Nowadays there is demand for enterprise application development as it helps various organizations to run a smooth setup.

Significance of SharePoint 2013 in Providing Organization 2.0

Posted by Sophina Dillard No comments

The previous versions of Microsoft SharePoint were launched so that they could expedite content search via content web query, however there was a constraint to it as searches could not be found on site collections. Now the latest version, SharePoint 2013 by using third party connectors can easily index site content from various sources such as websites, file shares, lotus notes. SharePoint 2013 has been developed by Microsoft to build up a single warehouse or source of index. It provides single enterprise search center experience to the user preventing need to visit different applications to search similar information and hence saves time.Nowadays there is demand for enterprise application development as it helps various organizations to run a smooth setup.

Feature Enhancements and Improvements in SharePoint 2013

And yet again, we have a Guest blogger on our blog - All About SharePoint. Today's blogger is - Mansi Khurana and she is a technical writer with more than 3 years of experience. She has written various articles on SharePoint database recovery software and various other technologies. And Today's Topic is - Feature Enhancements and Improvements in SharePoint 2013.

Rapid SharePoint adoption accentuates the requirement of improvements and enhancements. Microsoft has added many new features and improved the existing ones in SharePoint 2013, let's read on to know.

Business Connectivity Services

Enhancements in Business Connectivity Services enable Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 clients to get access to the data stored outside of the SharePoint environment, which is possible because of the support for OData. The SharePoint 2013 event listener features an event subscriber that enables custom code and SharePoint users to get notified when events occur in external storage system. SharePoint 2013 also supports apps that are designed for SharePoint. This support allows you to add relevant apps that do not affect the code of the system on which SharePoint server is running, resulting in enhanced security and easy installation and un-installation. Moreover, external list improvements enable users to sort, filter, or export other SharePoint lists.

Feature Enhancements and Improvements in SharePoint 2013

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And yet again, we have a Guest blogger on our blog - All About SharePoint. Today's blogger is - Mansi Khurana and she is a technical writer with more than 3 years of experience. She has written various articles on SharePoint database recovery software and various other technologies. And Today's Topic is - Feature Enhancements and Improvements in SharePoint 2013.

Rapid SharePoint adoption accentuates the requirement of improvements and enhancements. Microsoft has added many new features and improved the existing ones in SharePoint 2013, let's read on to know.

Business Connectivity Services

Enhancements in Business Connectivity Services enable Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 clients to get access to the data stored outside of the SharePoint environment, which is possible because of the support for OData. The SharePoint 2013 event listener features an event subscriber that enables custom code and SharePoint users to get notified when events occur in external storage system. SharePoint 2013 also supports apps that are designed for SharePoint. This support allows you to add relevant apps that do not affect the code of the system on which SharePoint server is running, resulting in enhanced security and easy installation and un-installation. Moreover, external list improvements enable users to sort, filter, or export other SharePoint lists.

SharePoint 2013 At A Glance

Microsoft recently featured its new SharePoint 2013 which says that it is the new and improved way to work altogether. It stuffed with simplified user experience helping users to organize, sync, and share all their content. Also, with the feature like social sharing, users can share their ideas and work with one simple click.

Currently, there are more than 4000 associates and around 135,000 people who work on Share Point solution to provide solutions. This is why; people were so eagerly waiting for the SharePoint 2013. Everyone in the tech town is quite excited about this release. SharePoint Application Development is becoming more and more popular these days.

Microsoft moving to the cloud is the most interesting part. Now, most of the businesses are shifting towards Office 365 got to ensure that they experience increased efficiency, better websites and a higher customer reach, which ultimately propel the company to the desired heights.

SharePoint 2013 At A Glance

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Microsoft recently featured its new SharePoint 2013 which says that it is the new and improved way to work altogether. It stuffed with simplified user experience helping users to organize, sync, and share all their content. Also, with the feature like social sharing, users can share their ideas and work with one simple click.

Currently, there are more than 4000 associates and around 135,000 people who work on Share Point solution to provide solutions. This is why; people were so eagerly waiting for the SharePoint 2013. Everyone in the tech town is quite excited about this release. SharePoint Application Development is becoming more and more popular these days.

Microsoft moving to the cloud is the most interesting part. Now, most of the businesses are shifting towards Office 365 got to ensure that they experience increased efficiency, better websites and a higher customer reach, which ultimately propel the company to the desired heights.