Evaluating SharePoint for the Enterprise

May 7th, 2012 8:30am-12:00pm

Instructor:
Tony Byrne
President,
Real Story Group

This intensive workshop offers a critical, independent evaluation of SharePoint, detailing the platform's strengths and weaknesses culled from customer experiences and hands-on testing. Through presentations and discussion, the workshop helps you figure out how, where, when, and why to use SharePoint -- and reviews how well SharePoint "fits" into different types and sizes of enterprises with different business objectives.

The workshop will also prepare you for developing a SharePoint strategy for your enterprise, empowering business and technology managers to reach a common assessment of what SharePoint can and can't do effectively for your enterprise. This course will enable you to confidently assess and plan any effort to extend SharePoint beyond a set of departmental installations into an enterprise-wide platform.

Course Outline

• What Is and Isn't SharePoint
• Evaluating SharePoint's Core Features and Functionality
• SharePoint as an Application Development Platform
• Enterprise Architecture and Operations
• Evaluating the SharePoint Ecosystem
• Best Practices and Looking Forward

Who Should Attend and What You Will Learn

• Business analysts -- to learn what SharePoint does and doesn't offer out of the box, and what are the likely costs
• Enterprise architects and IT managers -- to better guide business colleagues about choices and impacts before they try to dive into SharePoint, by understanding architectures, governance, critical 3rd-party modules employed at the enterprise level
• SharePoint project managers, senior architects, and lead developers -- to understand what you're about to get into, with respect to architectures, licensing, and functionality, as well as different approaches for customizing and extending SharePoint
• SharePoint evaluation teams -- to level-set understanding and terminology among the team, and make more informed choices about whether and where to employ SharePoint
• Information and Knowledge Managers -- to compare SharePoint against other information and knowledge management tools in your enterprise, as well as what key investments need to be made to up-size SharePoint for the enterprise
• Consultants -- to understand where SharePoint works well, and where it does not, as well as how to improve SharePoint implementations through better governance and 3rd-party tools
• Anyone who wants to understand the impact of SharePoint 2010 on any existing deployments