Comments on: SharePoint: Today & Tomorrow

By: Jonas Ekström

Jonas Ekström — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:26:29 +0000

A difficult challenge for MS is cross team initiatives, I would say.

I’ve seen some work over the years within different parts of MCS where they have put together service offerings targeting cross-product solutions for things like Process Management, Document Management and SOA. But for some reason they never last and the people involved gets scattered away and some times even leaves the company.

By: Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:52:30 +0000

Hi Alana,

I’m equally amazed, but they don’t seem to see BPM as a core capability for them. I didn’t hear any rumors, in fact, Microsoft when asked about BPM in this session seemed to say that they were not providing that, but counting on partners for it. Not that they would necessarily give away any secrets…

By: Alana Schock

Alana Schock — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:49:58 +0000

Nice update, Sandy. It has always been amazing to me that Microsoft hasn’t taken advantage of its unique catbird seat just waiting for it in BPM. With a true BPMS offering and a document management platform that manages imaged documents effectively (neither of which they have, last I checked), SharePoint/Microsoft would be a BPM (and ACM) game changer, no doubt about it. I’d bet it would shoot them right up to the BPM leader quadrant. It would seem that a smart, well-integrated, effectively executed acquisition would get them there the fastest and it certainly seems like there are efforts amongst their BPM partners to be the “belle of the ball”. I know there have been rumors of this in the past as well. Did you hear any rumblings of this at the conference?

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By: Freddie van Rijswijk

Freddie van Rijswijk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:44:51 +0000

Hi Piotr,
This is very interesting. Could you elaborate a bit more on those applications?
Questions i have:
Are these applications integrated with other systems and in what way?
Is there content (documents) being created (document composition) containing information from those other systems?
And what about content being captured (scanning) with data extraction which is fed back into those systems (e.g. invoice data)?
Is the information being used to steer the processflow, assuming you have a BPM setup and not only check-out/check-in with versioning.
Is Sharepoint used for long-term archiving and records management or do you rely on another system for this?

I am sure others too would love to gain also more insight in this real world scenario.

Best regards
Freddie van Rijswijk

By: Piotr Jagiełło

Piotr Jagiełło — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:57:00 +0000

Hello Freddie. If you are searching the company which is using SharePoint for the real business processes, you have just found. My company, Medical University in Łódź is using SharePoint 2010 Foundation for more than 500 users (during this year we increase it up to 1500). We have developed, with Microsft’s Partner, app for Asset Management and Incident Management. We just started the new project which is integration SharePoint 2010 with BPM.

By: Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:06:45 +0000

Freddie, I think you have a valid point. Most of the instances of SharePoint that I still see in my customers (which are fairly conservative financial services and insurance companies) is the old 2003 version, and they’re using it purely as a document repository. I don’t see a lot of them using it for transacting business, more of a repository. Whether the new features in SharePoint 2010 (if they ever move to it) and version 15 (when it comes out) will make a difference is really a challenge for Microsoft and their partners.

By: Freddie van Rijswijk

Freddie van Rijswijk — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:57:18 +0000

What interest me is the fact that in the last 2 months during the roadshow i asked over more then 500 companies in Uk, Nl, Be, Fr, De, Sw, Se, Dk and in Asia Singapoe, Taiwan, Hongkong, Taiwan, China.if Theo used Sharepoint and if so for doping business not inkt for the project and department websites. I got just 1 positive response and they did not use it for business and the 2nd positive one just stopped their project after 6 months as it was not showing any results.

So who can give me the true story, even Gartner being at our show in Singapore seemed to be surprised but where still defending their analysis, seems to me more wishfully thinking and good marketing.

Anyone with real business sharepoint apps?

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