Chris Bortlik

Get the most business value from Microsoft SharePoint® 2013!

Essential SharePoint 2013 approaches the newest release of SharePoint from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business performance.

With 85% new and revamped content from a team of long-time enterprise SharePoint consultants, this book will help you focus on the SharePoint features, capabilities, and applications that offer the most… Show more

Get the most business value from Microsoft SharePoint® 2013!

Essential SharePoint 2013 approaches the newest release of SharePoint from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business performance.

With 85% new and revamped content from a team of long-time enterprise SharePoint consultants, this book will help you focus on the SharePoint features, capabilities, and applications that offer the most real-world value. You'll find practical advice for succeeding with content management, business intelligence, and process improvement, and for deriving value from SharePoint 2013's most significant new innovations.

The authors offer comprehensive, "in the trenches" guidance on planning, architecture, governance, training, and other key issues most SharePoint books ignore. Drawing on their immense experience, they identify success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas," helping you reduce risk and time-to-value. Learn how to:

Manage user, operational, and application governance
Upgrade efficiently from earlier versions of SharePoint
Leverage SharePoint's cloud capabilities where they make business sense
Implement effective SharePoint security
Build effective ECM, WCM, social, and search-based applications
Take full advantage of composites and business process tools
Deliver SharePoint solutions through mobile devices
Leverage the rest of Microsoft Office 2013/Office 365
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This session will discuss how one customer planned their first steps for SharePoint 2013 social adoption using Cross Farm Services, Audience Targeting, and Enterprise Search. Start taking your enterprise social by standing up your social infrastructure side by side with your current SharePoint Environments. The session will demo two environments (2010 and 2013) going from isolation to integration resulting in an understanding of how you can create your own rich coexistence story in the… Show more

This session will discuss how one customer planned their first steps for SharePoint 2013 social adoption using Cross Farm Services, Audience Targeting, and Enterprise Search. Start taking your enterprise social by standing up your social infrastructure side by side with your current SharePoint Environments. The session will demo two environments (2010 and 2013) going from isolation to integration resulting in an understanding of how you can create your own rich coexistence story in the enterprise. Show less

The Only Book That’s Completely Focused on Maximizing the Business Value of SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Essential SharePoint® 2010 approaches Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business results.

The authors are leading enterprise SharePoint consultants and draw on their unsurpassed experience to focus on the SharePoint features that offer the most real-world… Show more

The Only Book That’s Completely Focused on Maximizing the Business Value of SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Essential SharePoint® 2010 approaches Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business results.

The authors are leading enterprise SharePoint consultants and draw on their unsurpassed experience to focus on the SharePoint features that offer the most real-world value. You’ll find practical advice about how to succeed with knowledge management, business intelligence, and process improvement, and how to derive value from new innovations such as social tagging and mashups.

The book includes comprehensive, “in the trenches” guidance on planning, architecture, governance, training, and other key issues most SharePoint books ignore. The authors identify success factors, intangibles, and “gotchas,” helping you systematically reduce project risk and time-to-value ratio. Learn how to

Customize your best portal or collaboration strategy
Sustain a portal for continual, measurable value
Leverage the new community and social features in SharePoint 2010
Succeed with enterprise content management
Streamline business processes with Workflow and Forms
Choose the right roles for Web collaboration, search, and Microsoft Office
Plan for secure external collaboration
Migrate smoothly from SharePoint 2007
Train and communicate for a successful launch

Whether you’re a business leader, IT manager, architect, analyst, developer, or consultant, this book will help you tightly align SharePoint projects with business strategy to deliver outstanding results. Show less