Essential SharePoint 2013 - Scott Jamison

Essential SharePoint® 2013 approaches Microsoft SharePoint 2013 from a strict business value perspective, helping you plan and implement solutions that achieve effective business results. Leading SharePoint experts draw on their unsurpassed experience to provide business-focused guidance on strategy, governance, planning, deployment, and more. You’ll find in-depth insights for success with collaboration, knowledge and content management, governance, and user adoption. The authors help you choose features, organize information, define security models, and launch your solution. They present best practices for search, workflow, business intelligence, and integrating information from Office 2013 and beyond. Each chapter includes a section introducing new SharePoint 2013 capabilities, from improved site branding to native iPhone mobile apps. Throughout, the authors identify success factors, intangibles, and “gotchas,” helping you reduce risk and time-to-value. Learn how to: Ask the right questions to craft a plan that maximizes business valueEfficiently deploy either “green field” solutions or upgradesIntegrate web, Office, and mobile devices into a comprehensive collaboration solutionPlan effective governance of content, operations, and applicationsDeliver enterprise content Measure and optimize user adoption to increase ROI, integrating documents, data, web content, and rich mediaUse search to help find the right knowledge and peopleEvaluate the cloud-based SharePoint Online optionUse social tools to promote deeper user interactionCollaborate and communicate with customers, partners, and suppliersQuickly create agile solutions with mashups and composites 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.