Today the Enterprise Enablement Virtual Conference kicks off at 10am eastern. If you see a session below you can still register and attend one or more sessions right from the convenience of your PC. You can register directly for the event here. The event is free of charge and brought to you by the Microsoft’s Greater Southeast District and open to all.
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Channel 1
10am-10:50
Building A Enterprise Knowledge Center Step by Step
In this presentation attendees will learn how to leverage out of the box SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities to capture organizational tacit knowledge and organize it in a manner that makes it accessible and usable. This will involve: Creation of a top level knowledge portal, a knowledge engine that drives dialogue and content creation, a structured repository for authoritative knowledge access and organization. Technologies included in this presentation will include SharePoint discussion forums, wikis, blogs, rich media libraries, and search.
Michael Gannotti Microsoft
Channel 1
11AM-11:50
Collaboration for Multinational Organizations
In order to get the most from a worldwide workforce, the multinational organization must meet challenges created by distance, time, and language... not to mention myriad national legal systems. This session will demonstrate how to use SharePoint, Office, Lync, and other components of the Microsoft Collaboration Platform to engage globally distributed employees, support local languages, and tackle compliance and regulatory issues.
David McNamee Microsoft
Channel 2
10AM-10:50
SharePoint Infrastructure for Geographically Distributed Organizations
SharePoint requires careful planning when it is deployed into a geographically distributed organization. This session will explore tactics and strategies to handle issues of low bandwidth, high latency, and unreliable connectivity. These will include the distribution of SharePoint services and the impact of client applications and cloud-based services such as Office 365
David McNamee Microsoft
Channel 3
1PM-1:50
SharePoint - On-Premise or the Cloud?
Whether it's on-premise, in the cloud, or a hybrid, SharePoint is an enterprise ready platform that can help solve many business problems. This session will review the differences between SharePoint on-premise and SharePoint Online as well as the different workloads/scenarios where one or the other makes sense.
Marc Zentmeyer
Channel 3
11am-11:50
Clearing up the cloudiness...Exchange 2010 provides world class messaging on premises and in the cloud
Exchange is the leading enterprise messaging platform, with millions of mailboxes deployed in datacenters all over the world, including the state of the art datacenters that house Microsoft Online Services. When do you move mailboxes to the cloud? Is my mail secure and available? What are the reasons to keep some mailboxes on premises? How does this impact my users? How does all this cloud stuff impact my operations? Get these answers and more!
Neil Axelrod
Channel 4
3pm-3:50
Visio 2010 means business
Microsoft Office Visio 2010 makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Go from complicated text and tables that are hard to understand to Visio diagrams that communicate information at a glance. Instead of static pictures, create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data, are easy to refresh, and dramatically increase your productivity. Use the wide variety of diagrams in Office Visio 2010 to understand, act on, and share information about organizational systems, resources, and processes throughout your enterprise.
Natalie Carullo
Channel 2
2pm-2:50
Delivering SharePoint Success: Key Steps to Reap the Business Benefits
SharePoint has shifted the paradigm in enterprise information management and team collaboration. By empowering knowledge workers, SharePoint can increase worker productivity, improve efficiency and streamline business processes. To achieve this goal, focusing on technology alone is not enough. Effectively identifying business value, gaining stakeholders' support and efficiently managing SharePoint projects is paramount to success. In this presentation, you'll learn key techniques in: Gaining executive buy-in for SharePoint projects Identifying and prioritizing business benefits SharePoint provides Proper planning and appropriately managing expectations Engaging the business for better adoption Defining organizational SharePoint readiness The primary audience for this session includes technical and business decision makers whose organizations have adopted SharePoint and who wish to adopt SharePoint.
Dux Raymond Sy
Channel 5
10am-10:50
SharePoint 2010 integration with CRM 2011 & Fast Search in SharePoint 2010 to search in CRM 2011
SharePoint 2010 plays a big role in integrating with line of business applications like SQL, Oracle, CRM, etc.. in this session, we will see the beauty SharePoint 2010 that gives when integrating with CRM 2011 as well as be able to use Fast Search to search in CRM 2011.
Mai Omar Desouki
Channel 2
3pm-3:50
How are Companies Using SharePoint?
In this session, Derek Weeks will do a broad analysis of the SharePoint market based upon a SharePoint Community survey from August 2010 with results compared to the January 2011 responses. In August 2010, 885 people responded to the survey about how they are using SharePoint. In January 2011, we captured and compared about 800 new responses. The goal of the survey was to:
• Determine the breadth and depth of SharePoint usage in the market today
• Understand how companies are driving value out of their implementations, and
• Identify challenges related to their investment You’ve got SharePoint setup. You’ve allocated some sites to hold content for the main areas of the company and you’re feeling pretty good about yourself… well, kind of. How are other companies solving their business problems with SharePoint? Is there anything major that you’ve overlooked. The presentation includes a drill down on SharePoint in the real world using the following survey findings:
• Adoption of SharePoint
• Widespread Deployment
• Using SharePoint for Portals, Workflow, and Process Management
• Creating and Modifying SharePoint Workflows
• Challenges with SharePoint Implementations
• Exposing Legacy or Other Application Data to SharePoint
• Reflections on SharePoint 2010
• Conclusions and Recommendations
Those attending the session will receive a color copy of the survey and will receive updates every six month as the data is refreshed.
Derek E. Weeks Title Global 360
Channel 4
4pm-4:50
Excel, PowerPivot, and SharePoint - Business Intelligence made easy!
Your organization hires smart people so, let's empower those people to drive more insight into your business and make better decisions by leveraging the tools they're already very confident and comfortable in already.... Excel! Brent walks you through some of the new data analysis and visualization capabilities in Excel 2010 while also introducing you to PowerPivot, which allows you to pull Hundreds of Millions rows of data into Excel from multiple disparate Data sources... create relationships between the Data Sources, which allows you to drive insight like never before. The icing on the cake is when Brent then publishes all of this insight to SharePoint, allowing the entire organization to gain value from the analysis he's created!
Brent Whichel Productivity Technology Specialist Microsoft
Channel 4
1pm-1:50
Windows Phone 7 (the Office Hub & SharePoint)
IDC is forecasting that Windows Phone will surge to second place in global smartphone OSes by 2015. Studies show how 93% of Windows Phone 7 owners would recommend it to their friends and family. Come learn how your users can extend their productivity to this platform using the built in Office Hub, which allows them to connect to SharePoint (hosted or, on Premise) and Open, Edit, and Save their documents right there on the Phone! Brent shows the Mobile experience with Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
Brent Whichel Productivity Technology Specialist Microsoft
Channel 4
2pm-2:50
Web Forms - go green and collect reusable content both online and offline...
Brent shows how SharePoint allows you to quickly create and customize Web Forms for collecting data from your organization. Watch as Brent uses SharePoint workspace to take his form offline... allowing him to collect information out in the field and then, shows how it seamlessly syncs the data once he reconnects to the network. Brent will also use SharePoint Designer to create some custom workflow, which kicks off based on the value submitted in the form... The best part... all of this information is stored in SharePoint, where it can easily be consumed and used for forecasting, etc...by the business.
Brent Whichel Productivity Technology Specialist Microsoft
Channel 3
10am-10:50
Innovating with partners and customers on Office 365
Leverage the power of the cloud with Microsoft’s new productivity platform, Office 365. Mike Watson will show participants how they can use Office 365 to engage partners and customers to build better products, services, and relationships. Key topics include integrating and managing external users, innovating with Q&A, and managing feedback
Mike Watson Title SeriousLabs
Channel 2
11am-11:50
How to grow revenue, cut costs & improve processes by engaging your customers, employees, and partners in the innovation process - all on SharePoint
Use the wisdom of crowds - your customers, employees and partners to drive revenue, cut costs and improve processes. SpigitEngage for SharePoint extends the capabilities of SharePoint by creating a comprehensive collaboration and idea management solution that focuses on inspired communities, agile innovation and measurable results.
Michele Welch
Channel 1
1pm-1:50
Build a Community in SharePoint
In this session, Mark Miller discusses the techniques and resources he used for making EndUserSharePoint.com one of the largest SharePoint Community sites in the world in less than two years. He’ll share why he built the site, how the community developed, how he attracted world class authors, and what you can do to develop your own community of internal SharePoint users. Many people can tell you how to use SharePoint, but do you have a game plan for building a community on your site? Building an online community is not magic, but there are specific practices to following when setting up the content and context of the site. In this session, we’ll deep dive into the various components of an online community, showing you how you can generate interest not only on an external facing site, but on your internal SharePoint site. At the conclusion of this session, you’ll walk away with ideas for generating an audience you didn’t even know existed. With a few well executed ideas, you too can have a site that makes you a SharePoint Superstar in your organization.
Mark Miller
Channel 1
2pm-2:50
Understanding Metadata – Working with stakeholders to build the taxonomy
When it comes to defining the site columns and content types for a project, the first step is to help your stakeholders understand the concepts of metadata so that they can picture how they are going to organize their documents without using folders. Once this is accomplished, you can start to inventory the types of documents that are going to live in SharePoint, and then explain the function of site columns and content types. In this session, we will discuss some methods that have proven to be successful for explaining these concepts and then organizing the taxonomy. You will see how to use tools that help users to inventory their documents and capture the metadata. You will see how to conduct workshops that help you and your clients to organize this information and then document the taxonomy in a form that can be shared, reviewed and easily modified. At the final stages, you will see how the required document libraries begin to emerge as part of this process.
Ruven Gotz
Channel 2
1pm-1:50
Enabling Employee Self Service through SharePoint 2010
Enabling self-service at medium to large organizations is sought by many organizations to streamline common processes and reduce administrative costs. Portals have commonly been sought to deliver such functionality, but often come up short on delivering desired business due to low adoption. Why is this? How can it be avoided? How are leading organizations approaching this? This session will stress i) the business value of employee / manager self-service, ii) common challenges organizations encounter, and iii) how these can be addressed through design best practices, SharePoint 2010 and a seamless user experience leveraging business connectivity services (BCS) or DUET Enterprise in the case of integration with SAP environments.
Valerie Prendergast
Channel 1
3pm-3:50
Using your Microsoft technology to accomplish eDiscovery and Compliance
All large companies deal with eDiscovery and compliance issues. Some have elaborate (and expensive) software to manage the process; others do it manually or use contractors. Microsoft's 2010 release of products allows customers to manage their eDiscovery and compliance rules and searches using the technology your users every day. In this session, we will cover the features and how others are using this technology to simplify this complicated and costly process.
Rick Grande Title Microsoft
Channel 1
4pm-4:50
Using SharePoint to Improve Project Delivery
Organizational Process Assets and Enterprise Environmental Factors are the most commonly referenced process inputs in the PMBOK®. These are the company's culture, systems and processes that either constrain or enable project teams. This seminar focuses on how to turn organizational "baggage" into true assets that increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce time to market. The use of SharePoint as a collaboration platform can be leveraged to create a "step change" in your project performance. This discussion will provide practical advice and "real world" case studies of how SharePoint can be utilized to upgrade the "critical few" best practices integral to the success of the project: Single source for key project artifacts Automated distribution of status reporting Track project risks and issues Streamlined change control processes Real-time performance metrics Capture lessons learned & other historical project information This seminar will demonstrate the true power of using SharePoint to improve Project Management Best Practices – You can do it yourself!
Steve Hart
Channel 2
4pm-4:50
Invent the Future by Reinventing Productivity... Now
What will the future of productivity look like? When you are viewing information that is dispersed, stored anywhere in the world, created by an unknown community of people, how will you find, access and consume that information? What will the interfaces look like? In this fast paced session, we'll look at seven stories, showing current, near and future visions of what productivity will look like. Audience participation is encouraged as we work together to define the future of productivity interfaces. Those attending the session are guaranteed to walk away with new ideas on how they can reform their companies with a vision towards the future. Mark Miller is a dedicated evangelist for the Information Workers, SiteManagers and Site Collection Administrators of SharePoint. He is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, international conferences and online webcasts. His current talks introduce the ideas of Business Process Management by envisioning the future through tailored business solutions built on SharePoint
Mark Miller
Channel 5
11am-11:50
How Microsoft built its internal Social Video Platform
Are you faced with the challenge of providing a video and podcasting services? Are you curious about how to design rich portal experiences that easily present both community and governed assets in context and drive social contribution? This IT Showcase will explore how we built Microsoft’s internal solution on SharePoint 2010 leveraging SharePoint 2010 Social, Search and managed meta data services to drive compelling solutions and content using social capabilities as the common fabric that connects.
Austin Winters
Channel 6
10am-10:50
Best Practices in developing SharePoint Artifacts
SharePoint is a great development platform as long you follow some golden rules right from the start. Being so huge as product, is hard for someone starting up on the SharePoint developing world, to achieve success without stumbling on "black-holes" issues with no turning back. With this session learn some best practices in developing in SharePoint: Team Building, Environments, ALM, Frameworks and Do/Don'ts.
Rodrigo Pinto
Channel 6
11am-11:50
Creating Simple Dashboards Using Out of the Box Web Parts
In this session we will look at some basic out of the box ways to create powerful dashboards for managing teams and projects. Our dashboards will be created using multiple connected web parts all configured from the browser. This session will give you a good overview of lists, views, web part pages and web part connections. This is a great session for those just getting started with SharePoint who want to push the limits of out of the box configuration.
Jennifer Mason
Channel 5
1pm-1:50
Advanced Calendaring with Silverlight 4 and SharePoint
Learn how Silverlight 4 can be used to integrate rich, powerful applications into SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Walk through Silverlight basics (XAML, styles, layouts, and application settings), retrieving data from SharePoint lists and document libraries, and deploying the Silverlight controls to SharePoint. Finally we will see an example of a common request - how to add advanced calendaring functionality
Steve Pietrek
Channel 5
2pm-2:50
SharePoint Maturity and Business Process Management – why they’re inseparable!
In order to bring your SharePoint implementation to a greater level of maturity, your organization’s business processes are a critical consideration - from the technical as well as human perspective. Feedback on the SharePoint Maturity Model from SharePoint community members indicates that the biggest factor that drove SharePoint maturity upwards was the evaluation of their business processes and the automation of workflows. The speaker will take the audience through the Maturity Model and will discuss when, in the maturity process, companies should start considering a Business Process Management solution. Templates for self-assessment will be provided.
Sadie Van Buren
Channel 3
2pm-2:50
SocialRally. Don’t Just Join the Conversation. Own It
In this presentation we will discuss how organizations are using SocialRally and crowdsourcing techniques to solve complex problems and get connected with customers, partners, and employees. SocialRally is a new Azure cloud-based application from Synteractive that empowers organizations to engage with their customers using many different types of social media, all from a single user interface. You can easily build deeper citizen engagement – broadcast your message across Facebook, Twitter and other networks, track responses, monitor interactions, and enter conversations that help enhance your initiatives
Erren Lester
Channel 5
3pm-3:50
Are you Project Server 2010 Ready? Preparing for Microsoft Project Server 2010
Are you Project Server 2010 Ready? What are the Hardware and Software requirements for Project Server 2010? What is the overall architecture of Project Server 2010? What are the new features of Project Server 2010? What do you need to do to prepare for deployment? What are the possible deployment scenarios? We will answer all of these questions and more. Microsoft® Project Server 2010 offers Project Managers a powerful tool for scheduling, planning and assigning project work within their projects and programs. Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 provides its users with an easy to use, intuitive platform for effective team collaboration and continues to be the most widely used collaboration platform on the market today
Eric Schyberg
Channel 4
10am-10:50
Use Visio 2010 to Reduce Costs by 22%
Learn how a leading bank was able to process 120,000 change of address request and reduce costs of this process by 22%, using Visio 2010 Premium. Everyone has business processes. How you execute on these processes each day determines whether you win or lose. Are you leveraging your business processes to their full potential? In this session, we will discuss how to use Visio 2010 Premium to document, model, and simulate your business processes. We will show you how to gain visibility into your business, so you can make better decisions – quickly! Learn how to get the most from your people and processes without wasted time, money or productivity. Streamline business processes easily Understand the impact of decisions on your business – before you make them Optimize processes to reach your full potential Watch your business GROW! FREE STUFF - All attendees to this session will receive copies of the BPMN process models + simulations showed during the presentation. These process models were created in real-world engagements and may help your own organization get started with its next process improvement effort.
Channel 6
1pm-1:50
Utilizing Microsoft Technologies to build HR Solutions
In today’s economy human resource departments need to have compelling and cost-effective solutions to get things done. Join us for an overview how existing technologies and new products like SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft InfoPath can provide your HR department the tools necessary to streamline and manage operations with robust functionality. We will also review the complex process of onboarding a new employee, and how to leverage these technologies to create a process that will have a new employee completely ready to go before their first day on the job including automating tasks such as necessary account creation, document creation and collection and notifications.
Jason Trent Title K2
Channel 5
4pm-4:50
Planning for Windows 7, How to get started.
Many organizations are embarking on testing, designing and deploying Window 7. We find that most of our clients are at one stage or another but share key starting points. These starting points will be discussed in detail. Inventory and discovery are required actions at the front end of any engagement of this magnitude. We will discuss methods that have been leveraged along with "Lessons Learned" and "Best Practices". We will also discuss techniques and the process for Application Rationalization. A discussion of tools and processes like Software Inventory and Application Compatibility and Software Deployment will also be covered
Todd S. Pekats
Channel 4
11am-11:50
iOS and SharePoint - A "Perfect" Match
Huh? Did I read that right? Apple and SharePoint - a perfect match? The reality is today's business climate demands more. Organizations every day are creating innovative, mobile solutions that enhance employee productivity, drive revenue, and produce significant competitive advantage. As a result of the consumerization of IT, the popularity of tablets, and the user experience of apps; for many organizations this means Apple iOS. In this session, we will discuss how to expose SharePoint content to iOS apps from a business and technology perspective. We will demonstrate how a device manufacturer used SharePoint in conjunction with an iPad application to introduce new products, enhance the field sales process, and drive sales.
Brandon Ebken CTO Cardinal Solutions
Channel 6
2pm-2:50
Branding SharePoint to Increase Business Value
You’ve been tasked with making your SharePoint portal not look like “SharePoint”. Where do you start? What are best practices and how much branding customization does SharePoint allow? What tools are available to make this project easier and provide more impact? The task is not as daunting as it appears. By investing some time, organization and planning you can create a corporate brand for your SharePoint project that makes a huge impact on usability, adoption and business value. Attend this webinar to gain an understanding of branding SharePoint to meet your company’s look and brand. The discussion leader will expose the branding and design process as well as challenges and considerations when branding SharePoint. See real world before and after examples of branding SharePoint on public web sites and Intranets. This webinar will appeal to both interface developers and business decision makers. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to brand your SharePoint portal right the first time.
Dan Hugge Title Aspect
Channel 3
3pm-3:50
Enterprise ECM running as a SharePoint Service
Traditional ECM is an expensive solution for SharePoint that takes a substantial amount of time and services to "drill" into SharePoint and maintains the old line "The Archive is the Center of the Universe" approach. It perpetuates proprietary software and requires the consumers of the documents (users) to navigate different UI's that are expensive to purchase and maintain and takes their focus from completing the business task at hand to deciding where to look for the document and parsing which system (ECM, SAP, email....) they "might" find that document in. With ecspand for SharePoint, there is now a single repository for users to surface ANY corporate document. This simplifies their efforts and takes an already compelling ROI and turns it into a stunning productivity enhancement that safeguards critical corporate communications, while streamlining the user experience and returns the users focus to their business tasks. We have now entered the paradigm of “ECM as a service“, which is largely invisible to the user, configurable by the administrator, demanded by your CFO and applauded by your Chief Counsel.
Randy Hardy
Channel 3
4pm-4:50
SharePoint Online – Moving SharePoint to the Cloud
Organizations are increasingly looking to the cloud as a way of reducing operational expenses while increasing organizational nimbleness. As such the idea of a cloud hosted instance of SharePoint can be an attractive option. In this session Mark will cover the benefits of SharePoint online, the power it delivers to organizations, and cover the differences between self-hosted SharePoint and cloud hosted. Additionally, he will demonstrate the new features available in the Office 365 cloud hosted service
Mark Kashman
Channel 6
3pm-3:50
SharePoint’s next Billion Dollar Market – Understanding How SharePoint and Paper Work Together
Helping Customers and Partners to have one version of the truth by managing paper based assets. Every company needs to deal with paper on some level – even those that claim to be paperless. The companies that handle their paper based assets the most effectively find that they can reduce their costs, improve their productivity and maintain their compliance efforts. Gartner says that 80% of all companies have SharePoint. Most don’t know SharePoint can handle paper very effectively. This session will explain how customers and partners can get the most out of their investments in SharePoint
Jeff Shuey
Channel 6
4pm-4:50
Showing How SharePoint and Paper Work Together
SharePoint can be used as a repository for paper based assets. The design aspects can range from simple to complex and can scale from a few dozen pages to thousands of pages to millions of pages. The innate capabilities of the SharePoint platform are perfect for capturing, extracting data, launching workflow tasks and storing paper based assets. This session will explain the basics of Document Scanning and Data Extraction. It will also discuss and show One Touch scanning operations where paper is scanned and stored as Searchable PDF files within a SharePoint environment.
Jeff Shuey