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Trends in CollaborationEli RobillardNational SharePoint Consulting Lead

Eli is a ten-time Microsoft MVP (2x ASP.NET, 8x SharePoint Server) and the National Leader of MNP’s SharePoint Consulting Practice.

As a thought leader and community builder, Eli co-founded the ASPInsiders, launched the Toronto SharePoint User Group in 2005, launched the first free Saturday event in 2007, co-authored Professional SharePoint 2007 Development and served as technical editor of Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox Press).

For over 65 years, MNP LLP has forged strong relationships with businesses across Canada through its accounting, advisory and consulting practices.

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Agenda

• Issues in Collaboration: The jaw-dropping truth.

• Collaboration Today: Why your head will explode.

• Trends in Collaboration: Are your friends are too polite to tell you?

• The Future of SharePoint: Must be seen to be believed.

When is something considered a “trend?”

New discoveries?

Incremental improvements?

Maturity in a field, market or technology?

Characteristics:

• “A prevailing tendency.”

• Easy to recognize in hindsight.

• Becomes a best practice.

The Value of Collaboration

The Value of Collaboration

• Customer response

• Process cycle times

• Employee productivity

• Decreased virtual distance

Distance and Virtual Distance

1800-1849

• Telegraph network

• Cross the Atlantic: 3mo

1850-1899

• Trans-Atlantic telegraph

• Cross the Atlantic: 8d

• Coast-to-coast mail: 3mo months to 10d

• Pigeon post

1900-1949

• Broadcast radio


• Air travel

• Commercial airmail

• First Digital Computer

1950-1999

• Interstate highways

• Cross the Atlantic: 3d to hrs in 1960

• Personal computers

• Networks


2000-2050

• Ave. Global latency: 70 to 600ms

• Pervasive Internet

• Intelligent machines

• Immersive virtual experiences

1800-1849

• Telegraph network

• Cross the Atlantic: 3mo

1850-1899

• Trans-Atlantic telegraph


• Coast-to-coast mail: 3mo months to 10d

• Pigeon post

1900-1949

• Broadcast radio


• Air travel

• Commercial airmail

• First Digital Computer

1950-1999

• Interstate highways

• Cross the Atlantic: 3d to hrs in 1960

• Personal computers

• Networks

Issues Facing Collaboration: Productivity is Decreasing

Trends in CollaborationEli Robillard

Trending: Cloud-first Strategies

Outsourced data centres and hosted line-of-business apps are the norm.

Cloud service brokers are coming soon to ease integration across hosts.

Vendors are leading with the cloud.

Enterprise apps are moving to the browser.

Location of hosting is irrelevant to users.

Responsive design versus native apps

Decisions will be between investment in browser-based cloud solutions (and the associated bandwidth), or locally-run mobile apps (and the associated development costs).

Both will have a place.

Recommendations for Cloud

Get identity management under control, prepare for federation.

Develop or update your Service Catalogue.

Inventory of service providers and applications provides a clear picture of your landscape.

Self-hosted infrastructure still offers a cost benefit in some cases.

The break-even is in the tens of thousands of users.

There may also be security requirements.

There are no regulatory requirements beyond territorial data sovereignty laws.

These lines will erode.

Ensure your information architecture is ready for cloud integration

Yes, even if you have no current plans to go there.

Decreasing

Virtual Distance:

Video Conferencing

Decreasing Virtual Distance: Portable Computing

Trending: Portable Computing

Tablets will surpass desktop sales in 2015

Sales growth is marked by price cuts rather than new functionality

iPad sales in decline

Tablet and desktop sales are dwarfed by mobile phones (>1.8M new devices per year)

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Mobile workforce is set to triple

Hottest IT skills today: Mobile

User Experience

BYOD is leading to BYOA – personal apps are increasingly being used for business.

“Most collaboration applications Will Be Equally Available Across Multiple Devices by 2016”

Recommendations for Portable Computing

Questions to ask:

Do we have policies in place to protect of knowledge assets, security and privacy?

Does our infrastructure support secure portable computing?

Can we manage these devices?

Does our enterprise information architecture support mobile computing?

Are we designing new solutions for cross-device compatibility?

Can we manage and regulate our intellectual property across devices?

Skills to acquire or outsource:

User Experience

Digital Architecture

Mobile Development

The Internet of Things

By 2020:

5 billion people online

24 billion mobile devices

as many as 100 billion "things“

We need to prepare corporate leaders for the Internet of Things

Someone needs to own it and head up initiatives

Need to educate all levels of the organization

Start skills planning

Coworking Spaces: Flexible workspaces for a flexible workforce

1. They offer collaborative networks, built-in resources, and a dynamic ecosystem

2. They foster innovation.

3. They make starting a business simpler.

Coworking Spaces

75% reported an increase in productivity since joining their space

80% reported an increase in the size of their business network

92% reported an increase in the size of their social circle

86% reported a decrease in their sense of isolation

83% reported that they trusted others in their coworking space

“When they needed to collaborate closely, co-located coworkers e-mailed four times as frequently as colleagues in different locations, which led to 32% faster project completion times. Out of sight, out of sync.”

Trending: Virtual Reality

Other Collaboration Trends

Big Data and Advanced Analytics

Search-based applications like Delve are becoming pervasive.

The real power of the cloud is scalability, as with PowerBI.

These trends will have a massive impact on healthcare.

Third hottest job today? Data Sciences.

Security, Privacy and Self-preservation

Consumer breaches are on the rise.

The tide is slowly turning from reactive to proactive.

What happens after we resolve these issues, maybe this time for real?

The Road AheadEli Robillard

Adoption of Office 365

"Until last October Google Apps was more popular, and Salesforce and Box were the most popular apps used at work.

Office 365 hasn't quite taken over Salesforce.com yet, but it probably will in the next few months."

From http://www.businessinsider.com/how-office-365-is-beating-google-apps-2015-3

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-office-365-is-beating-google-apps-2015-3

SharePoint and Office: New In 2016

Office 2016: What we know

SharePoint, Exchange, Skype for Business, and Yammer

Remote Provisioning

Forms on SharePoint Lists

InfoPath 2013

Office 365: What we know

Office Graph

Remote Index

Public websites on O365

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Now Trending: SharePoint

Office 365 and Azure blow the roof off SharePoint scalability Canadian-based hosting is reaching feature parity with Microsoft’s US service

Hybrid scenarios are most popular

Yammer conversations everywhere Commenting and conversations for sites and documents

Will this be a tipping point for Yammer?

Delve and Office Graph The continued evolution of search-based apps

Next steps, net impact, and customer response will determine its legacy

Recommendations for SharePoint

Know the options and constraints of your current state.

Prepare for cloud and hybrid scenarios, even if you plan to stay on-premises Lowers your development and maintenance costs

Provides options for private cloud, cloud hybrid and migration (when, not if)

Get to know Office 365, SharePoint Online and Azure today Office 365 evaluation is free – contact me to get set up!

SharePoint on Azure can be tested with MSDN subscriptions

Test new features in SharePoint Online before they hit vNext: • Delve and Office Graph

• Yammer everywhere

• PowerMap

SharePoint Capacity Planning

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My Predictions

1. Collaboration and social are due for disruption.

2. Organizational structures will be broken down and recomposed into an ecosystem of services.

3. Security will become a first class citizen. SIMs are ripe for disruption

4. Personalization will be everywhere. Digital and Search are converging towards a new set of expectations

5. Unified communication and collaboration everywhere.

6. “Internet of things” hits the mainstream in 2017.

7. Wearables will see another backlash before breaking through.

8. Computers will stay dumb for a while.

Recap

• Virtual distances continue to shrink.

• Traditional business is being disrupted, and this is a good thing.

• Information systems are headed to the cloud, and it is best to be prepared.

• First looks of SharePoint 2016 at Ignite Conference (May 2015 in Chicago)

• Public CTP strongly hinted for 2015 H2

Thank You!

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