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Editor's Notes

• #3: Before I tell you about the technology, it’s first important to establish some background on the market realities that informed the vision for this release and what we set out to accomplish. The reality for most SharePoint administrators and IT organizations today is that they have aspirations of getting more out of their SharePoint investment, but face significant challenges in getting there. According to a recent study that polled over 500 SharePoint administrators and IT professionals - the top 2 challenges related to an organization’s SharePoint environment are 1) driving user adoption and 2) using SharePoint for more business processes. -------------- Source: 2013 AIIM survey of 538 Respondents. Question: What are the biggest on-going issues for SharePoint in your organization? 52% Persuading users to manage and share their content in SharePoint and not elsewhere 49% Expanding the use of SharePoint for more business processes
• #4: The vast majority of organizations that use SharePoint recognize a need for workflow driven apps. Apps that make it easy for end users to streamline their work, take action against tasks when and where action is needed, and manage it all from one place. There are some major hurdles to getting there, however: Integration is a challenge, and not just integration within SharePoint across SharePoint sites and environments, but also integration with other data sources – some of which reside in other line-of-business systems within the organization or even data sources on the web. A major issue is the time and cost that it takes to build and maintain these applications – most of which require custom development, and the resources and skills that that requires. And even in getting these things right, end user adoption is still a challenge – a big piece of this is due to the difficulty of creating great user interfaces that deliver a good user experience. These are really some of the common pains and challenges that we set out to address with our research and development efforts in this release. ------ MPS Survey data: Workflow: 73% SP2013 customers cite processes that would benefit from Workflow1 Forms: 73% cite application areas that would benefit from electronic forms1 54% Connect Workflow to Electronic Forms1 Data 32% use SP to connect to ERP1 28% use SP to connect with CRM1
• #5: Delivering these apps needs to support both On premises and in the Cloud. Customers tell us its not one or the other but both. We make that possible. Bridge cloud and on-premises easily.Empower more people to solve business problems with apps that include forms, workflows and access to information.Unlock mobile potential inside and outside organizations
• #6: Building apps with K2 is simple whether an app is being built for you or you will be building your app yourself the tools being used are the same. All K2 design environments offer drag-and-drop simplicity, weather you are building a simple form or composing a complex rule. FORMS Use drag and drop components in your preferred browser to create feature rich reusable forms for workflows and business applications. WORKFLOW K2 provides design environments that are fine-tuned to your work style. Whether you prefer a browser, Visual Studio or desktop tools, we ensure you have what you need to build something great. DATA Use visual tools, not code, to define reusable business entities for access to your information, use line-of-business and Web-based data, regardless of where it lives. Smartobjects serve up a single view of business information and are easily configured to connect to nearly any system within your organization or on the web.  OUT-OF-THE-BOX DATA INTEGRATION Out-of-the-box, K2 integrates with SharePoint, Active Directory, Exchange, Office 365, Dynamics CRM, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com and web services and more. CONNECT TO ANY SYSTEM For organizations that have homegrown applications and systems in place, K2’s integration tools make it easy to work with them all. Once a connection is in place, use it across all your K2 applications. REPORTS Use K2’s out of the box workflow reporting controls to add reports to your forms and create information portals. Extend these reports using community controls as well as industry standard reporting solutions. However you create reports K2 makes process, workflow and line of business data available for you to use.
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