Microsoft NextGen Portals: What? Why? When?

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Housekeeping

Daniel Cohen-Dumani@dcohendumani

Founder

and CEO

Blogger: SME for Portal Solutions Digital Workplace Today Blog

Areas of Interest:

Portal and Collaboration,

Productivity and Efficiencies

A passion for Simplicity and Speed to Market

About Me

Joshua Steiner@JoshuaMSteiner

Practice

Director

Leads Portal Solutions’ Team of

Project Managers and Business

Analysts

Areas of Interest: User Adoption,

Information Architecture

A Passion for Knowledge

Management and Pain-

Free Content Migrations

About Me

1. Build a good foundation to understand the difference between turnkey and custom intranets.

2. What are portal essentials and trends?

3. Where is Microsoft coming from, little bit of history.

4. What are NextGen Portals, where are we today, what is available?

5. What is the importance and what does it mean for you?

6. What is the timeline, when can we expect to see NextGen Portals?

Session Learning Objectives

What Is Your Portal Platform Based On?

SharePoint Online/Office 365

SharePoint (not sure what version)

IBM Connection/Lotus Notes

Turnkey such as Jive, Igloo, Jostle

Other Platforms (Wordpress, Drupal, SiteCore, for example)

Poll

Tools & Forms

Communication

Departments

Projects

People

Gateway

Mobile

Portal Essentials

“How do I…?”

“What’s going on…?”

“Don’t ask me, find it yourself…!”

“What’s the status…?”

“Who has worked on…?”

“What’s the address for…?”

“Access anywhere”

Trends

- Microsoft SharePoint has over 160 million users worldwide and over 75,000 customers over on-premises and online.

- The SharePoint ecosystem has grown to over 1M developers and represents an $8B market for products and services.

- SharePoint is still a strong investment at Microsoft.

- But wait… there is a problem!

Maintenance of custom SharePoint solutions has

grown exponentially

There are so many custom solutions on SharePoint

that upgrading and supporting solutions is

more complex than ever

SharePoint UI has aged and many users are dissatisfied

with the platform

What Is Microsoft's Vision For The Future?

Empower every person and every organizationon the planet to achieve more

Mobile-first

Create more personal computing

Reinvent productivity & business processes

Build the intelligent cloud platform

Cloud-first

Provide ready-to-go portals plus the ability to create custom portals to support organization-

wide productivity across online, on-premises and

hybrid.

So What Are Microsoft NextGen Portals Anyways?

Ready-to-go portals with the ability to create custom portals to support organization-

wide productivity across online, on-premises and hybrid.

Video Delve “InfoPedia”

Intelligent Social Mobile Ready-To-Go

ENHANCED BY KEY OFFICE 365 CAPABILITIES

Roadmap Portal – What Does It Mean For Custom Portals?

2016 2017 2018

Common controls & APIs available to developers

What Exists Today?

Office 365 Videos Delve People Experiences

Office 365 Groups New Page Authoring

OneDrive for Business

New Page Authoring

Delve

Office Videos

Demonstration

Why This Is So Important

Current SharePoint solutions are based on an old platform that is aging

Maintenance of custom SharePoint solutions are rising

Upgrades are complex, time consuming and unpredictable

Microsoft recognizes they have created too much complexity by giving users too much freedom to build

Why Should You Look At NextGen Portals?

SimplicityCloud

ProductivityNo Upgrade

Speed and Performance

Continuous Improvement

Modern and responsive

What Should You Know About Them?

A word of caution……

New• Some of the new portals are unfinished

• You can’t turn all features on/off

Functionality

• Some missing functionality

• No historical governance

• Lack of customization

• No branding options

Release• Release is scattered across tenants (you

can’t predict when you will see them)

• There may be some bugs…..

Timeline

TodayRoadmap – Microsoft Portal/Intranet Platform

2001

SharePoint

Portal Server 2001

2003

SharePoint

Portal Server 2003

2006

Office SharePoint

Server 2007

2009

SharePoint

Server 2010

2012

SharePoint

Server 2013

2019

SharePoint

Server vNext

Office 365

2016

SharePoint

Server 2016

NextGen Portals

Micro-sites/Groups

InfoPedia

Power BI

Delve People ExperienceNew UX

New ECM back-end

Turnkey Portals

Microsoft acquires Content

Management Server

Microsoft acquires

ProClarity

Microsoft acquires FAST

Search

What To Expect In 2016

InfoPedia a.k.a. KM Portal Social (Yammer or Groups)

Planner Magazines

Groups/Micro-Sites OneDrive Enhancements

What Is Coming Next?

Q4 15 Q1 16 Q2 16 Q3 16

Planner

Delve enhanced experience

New Groups features

Magazines/Micro-Sites

InfoPedia

Q4 16

Portal Solutions estimates, not an official roadmap

What To Watch For

Disjointed User Experience (Delve vs. Groups vs. InfoPedia)

Licensing and Constraints

Governance

Migration Path from Existing SharePoint Solutions

Where Can You Learn More?

Check the Office 365 roadmap (little information)

http://success.office.com/en-us/roadmap

Take a look at the pricing planshttp://portl.me/1RRDFy3

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Microsoft NextGen Portals

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