This session will focus on how SharePoint Products & Technologies can contribute to the acceleration of the solution development process by taking advantage of out-of-box capabilities in order to deliver composite business applications for your organization. Chris BortlikSession Speaker
Chris Bortlik works at Microsoft as a SharePoint technology specialist. He works with Enterprise customers and partners in the Northeast in a pre-sales technical role. Chris speaks frequently at Microsoft events (including the SharePoint Conference) and is a contributing author of the upcoming "Essential SharePoint 2010" book. He als
... Read More This session will be about the key values of workflow in a variety of forms. Much is out there about workflow and it can be confusing and overwhelming. What do you need to know? What can you do? How can SharePoint and workflow in combination be of tremendous value to you and your organization, especially in today’s economic climate. Chris GeierSession Speaker
Chris Geier is a 15 year veteran of the IT industry, specializing in security and Microsoft product lines. For the past 4 years he has been working in the workflow and BPM space. Also dabbling in community development and Social Media.
... Read More Information architecture is never as easy as it seems. For example, do you have a hard time deciding if you should group your documents by department or by project? This session is a practical, hands on review of the new managed metadata services for managing taxonomies, folksonomies, tags, metadata and content types in SharePoint 2010. Chris McNultySession Speaker
Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. He is currently SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner, where he leads engagements using SharePoint, SQL Server, Project Server, and .NET. Chris also holds an MBA from the C
... Read More Many companies planning upgrades to SharePoint 2010 are reviewing their social media strategies, as users are chomping at the bit to deploy and use the new, natively supported features in SharePoint 2010. But most administrators don’t fully understand the taxonomy and governance issues associated with these tools. The intent of this presentation is to walk participants through the taxonomy and governance (and Intellectual Property) implications of the new social media capabilities within SharePoint 2010 (and 2007), providing guidance and best practices on how to track metadata, align these tools with broader corporate content management strategies, and maintain manageability of their SharePoint environment. Christian BuckleySession Speaker
Christian drives product and corporate evangelism for echoTechnology, a SharePoint ISV located in downtown Seattle. Prior to joining echo, Christian helped build out the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform at Microsoft (known as BPOS-Dedicated), was part of the core team that developed a supply chain-integrated SharePoint-like platform for the
... Read More MOSS 2007's Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is extremely powerful and enables the ability to create custom views of data queried from many sources that present data in one place. The CWQP is often an underrated and overlooked feature despite its powerful query and content refinement options. CQWP is such a powerful approach for managing and displaying content in SharePoint portals.
This session will demonstrate how to leverage SharePoint’s web content management (WCM) features to help empower non-IT staff to manage content along with aggregating content using the CQWP. Christina WheelerSession Speaker
Based in Philadelphia, PA, Christina (MCTS: SharePoint) is a Senior Consultant for Summit 7 Systems and Founder of CM Portal Solutions, LLC. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Christina has a background in graphic design, web development, custom development, and has been working with SharePoint since May 2005. She helps Summit 7 c
... Read More InfoPath is a powerful tool for eliminating paper forms in any organization. When linked in to external data connections it can also perform as a strong reporting tool or dashboard/metric generator. We’ll start with some simple form examples and then jump into more advanced InfoPath concepts re: data connectivity options and running forms that behave more like ‘reports’. Jerry HughesSession Speaker
Jerry has been working with SharePoint for several years in various capacities for large organizations. He recently served as a SharePoint Administrator for Partners Healthcare. He has worked with Grace-Hunt since September of 2009 and enjoys streamlining business processes using SharePoint, InfoPath and strongly integrated workflows. Like ev
... Read More What should every developer be aware of before diving head first into SharePoint? Being a talented .NET developer does not directly translate to being a SharePoint Developer. The learning curve can be huge and the environment taxing. Mark Rackley designed this session as the session he wished he would have seen when he started SharePoint Development.
Attendees will learn:
1. A greater understanding of what SharePoint is and how it’s structured including a crash course in Logical Architecture, Taxonomy, Governance and why these topics are so important in SharePoint.
2. What steps to take in order to become a SharePoint developer and a jumpstart on getting started down that path.
3. Why the SharePoint community is unique and important.
Mark RackleySession Speaker Mark has been developing software applications for over 15 years filling the roles of Project Manager, Business Analyst, Lead Developer, and Software Architect. He has been involved in projects for such companies as Dell, Motorola, Intel and Agilent Technologies. He has worked in large corporate environments, small software start-ups, and as a co
... Read More In previous versions of SharePoint developers needed access to the server to create a Silverlight application, so that they could make proper configuration changes. In the new version of SharePoint a developer can create WCF Webservices and use LINQ to XML or harness the Client Object Model to bind SharePoint data to Silverlight Controls. In this session we will create a BCS List and bind the data from this list to a Silverlight control using both the WCF Webservice Technique and the Client Object Model. Rebecca IssermanSession Speaker
Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen, hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in Not
... Read More If you are a person, who has, or is thinking about or actually implementing SharePoint you should know everything I will cover in this session. We will go over which technology fits, how to achieve and maintain buy in, how to implement successful governance, how to approach SharePoint and get great user adoption and will even cover how to handle new work and growth. Richard HarbridgeSession Speaker
Richard Harbridge is from the GTA (Toronto, Ontario, Canada area) and is a geek who really enjoys learning and talking about technology, communication, social media, psychology, personal growth/development, and business.As an active member of the community he is involved with many different Toronto technology user groups and has spoken at a numb
... Read More SharePoint 2010 is poised to revolutionize how organizations connect their people, processes, and information. It will mark SharePoint’s evolution from a server application to a full-fledged platform…the world’s first “enterprise eco-system.” In this session we will discuss how the changes coming in SharePoint 2010 will affect your platform deployment, administration, and performance optimization strategies. We will outline approaches for efficient management of both application lifecycles and multi-farm, geographically-dispersed environments, review best practices for optimizing storage resources, and conclude with an evaluation of options for consolidating and exposing your legacy content in the SharePoint 2010 platform. Ryan TacySession Speaker
With ten years of experience developing and deploying digital-asset protection and management solutions, Ryan brings a broad knowledge of IT infrastructure management to his work helping organizations optimize their SharePoint management, protection, and governance strategies. Ryan has worked with SharePoint since the platform’s debut in 2001,
... Read More Storing SharePoint content (BLOBs) in the SQL database poses many issues:
• Improper use of SQL to store unstructured content
• Overuse of Tier 1 storage
• DR, Indexing, and Maintenance tasks fall outside of operational windows
• Planning, rollout, and on-going maintenance complexity as a resulting from Microsoft guidelines
• Inability to meet regulatory compliance requirements
All of these factors increase risk and cost to your SharePoint environment and projects. We’ll discuss various approaches to moving Content (BLOBs) out of SQL while increasing SharePoint performance and backup timeframes. Business benefits, cost savings, and ROI will be discussed as well as a live‐demonstration of relocating SharePoint content to Cloud platforms.
Tom MillerSession Speaker
Tom has over thirteen years experience within the IT industry with a strong focus on ECM technologies. Since 2001, he has architected/designed dozens of SharePoint solutions as well as implemented several SharePoint-based 3rd party tools. Other areas of expertise include BPM/Workflow, Capture/Imaging, Network Architecture and Administration.
... Read More Managed metadata services is one of the most exciting new features in SharePoint 2010. Finally organizations are able to implement and manage a consistent metadata structure to support better categorization and taxonomy support. This session will explore the new features of the MMS and identify best practices around its utilization. This session will also explore strategies to plan out its implementation and solid ‘how tos’ in regards to taxonomy development, management and free-form keyword tagging. Virgil CarrollSession Speaker
Mr. Carroll has run High Monkey Consulting over the past decade and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Mr. Carroll has 10+ years working with Microsoft technologies and is currently pursuing his 2nd Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interactions. Mr. Carroll is cur
... Read MoreFollow Virgil Carroll on Twitter @vman916 SharePoint has done what no other enterprise content management product has ever done, experiencing unprecedented growth through broad user adoption and unbridled support from IT and executive management. In this session Russ will share what he has found to be the most successful key planning considerations (the roadmaps) and as well as complications that have been encountered along the way (the potholes) in the implementation of SharePoint Russ EdelmanSession Speaker
Russ is the founder, President & CEO of Corridor Consulting, a systems integration and consulting firm focused specifically on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry. Founded in 1997, Corridor’s clients include organizations such as General Electric, First Data Corporation, Anheuser-Busch, Nike, Micro
... Read More This session will provide an overview of the available SharePoint 2010 upgrade options and advanced migration scenarios. The presenters will address upgrade scenarios from WSSv2/WSSv3/SPS2003/MOSS2007 to SharePoint 2010 including granular and partial migrations, re-structuring of list, library and site content during migration and how Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager can enable organizations to take advantage of new site templates in SharePoint 2010. Metalogix will also demonstrate how Website Migration Manager can enable organizations to migrate content from existing web content management solutions, wikis and blogs to the SharePoint 2010 publishing platform. Albert Fengan LiuSession Speaker
Albert Liu joined Metalogix Software after graduating from Dalhousie University with a Master of Applied Computer Science degree. Albert worked for GE Healthcare Canada as an intern prior to graduation.
... Read More You're ready to move to SharePoint Server 2010 or want to know what is waiting for you there? Then let's see together how SharePoint 2010 makes your life easier, gives you more control and adds more features for your end users.
We’ll cover new terminology, new management options that come with SharePoint 2010 including the addition of Managed Accounts, changes to the install and briefly cover the upgrade options. We’ll also touch on some of the architecture changes including introducing you to Shared Service Applications. This session is a great place to start if you want to know what you’ve got in store once you start installing SharePoint 2010. Florin MunteanSession Speaker
SharePoint Solution Architect with over 10 years of experience in all aspects of Software & System engineering, Hardware/Software Integration, System maintenance and Software Development. Current role includes: Design and implementation of enterprise level SharePoint solutions.
... Read More We will learn how to extend SharePoint’s out-of-the-box web controls and create new ones from scratch by extending BaseFieldControl. Finally, we will use them to build custom field types that can be used in SharePoint and other SharePoint-based applications that support custom fields in SharePoint.
Jacob LauzierSession Speaker Jacob Lauzier is a Software Engineer at Atalasoft where he works primarily on Vizit SP, the document viewer for SharePoint. He specializes in standards-based web architecture and user experience design. Jacob holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and lives in Holyoke. He’s not-so-secretly obsessed with
... Read More SharePoint Workspace 2010 (nee Groove) is a collaboration platform that integrates with SharePoint servers. SPW 2010 is viewed as an "offline/mobile client" extension of SharePoint. This session will explore the integration architectures of SPW 2010 and SharePoint servers and how applications are built on the platform including the use of.NET API/SDK. Some knowledge in .NET development and using SharePoint is presumed Supriyo “SB” ChatterjeeSession Speaker
Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is an Architect/Tech-Lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years experience in IT and has worked at various companies like Aetna, IBM, UNICEF and State of Connecticut. He holds graduate degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. He was twice awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for Groove
... Read MoreFollow Supriyo “SB” Chatterjee on Twitter @sbc111 You will be introduced to the BCS and will learn how to leverage technologies such as SharePoint Designer 2010 to create entities and leverage them within the SharePoint 2010 interfaces. You will learn what connection mechanisms you have to the BCS Entity and how to leverage them within Office Clients and other SharePoint containers. 85% of what you experience will not involve Visual Studio while the remaining 15% will. Adam MacaulaySession Speaker
Adam Macaulay is responsible for research and development of the technology platform driving the success of CorasWorks products. He has over 14 years of experience, 12 in Microsoft and 8 in SharePoint, developing Internet Applications that have taken internal, cost ineffective solutions and turned them into profitable internet applications that
... Read More SharePoint 2010 has improved ways to work with data. LINQ to SharePoint lets developers work with data from SharePoint lists in a strongly typed way that preserves relationships between lists. This session will demonstrate how to write code that uses LINQ data. Steven FowlerSession Speaker
Steven Fowler is an author, speaker, and consultant possessing a mix of advanced technology and strategic business acumen derived from 14 years of progressive project management, architecture and engineering experience. Steven has focus on SharePoint based solutions since 2005 and recently completed one of the world’s largest SharePoint implemen
... Read More This session examines the new client object model available in SharePoint 2010 and the differences between the three currently available client APIs.
Demonstrations will be given on how to connect to a SharePoint site with each of the three APIs and how the new RESTful architecture of SharePoint 2010 allows standardized access to data residing on remote SharePoint servers.
Specific detail will be spent examining how to create and deploy Silverlight Applications using the client OM with the new Silverlight WebPart container.
G. Scott SingletonSession Speaker
Scott Singleton is a Senior Consultant and a Lead SharePoint Architect at i3solutions and has been working as a software architect and programmer for over 17 years. For the last three years he's been focused on leveraging his design and development skills to solve customer's business challenges in SharePoint as well as managing large implement
... Read More My session focuses on best practices when creating MY Sites and Team Sites around the tools that sit on top of SharePoint such as Newgator. I will show demonstrations of best practices around what companies throughout the country are doing to make it easier to collaborate within the four walls. I will walk through best practices using Twitter, Facebook, Yammer and Linked In outside the four walls. Jeff WillingerSession Speaker Jeff Willinger fuses the gift of communications with the acumen of strategic and creative thinking. With experience spanning more than two decades, Jeff possesses expertise in social computing, collaboration and all things social media. He has the ability to link IT solutions to business value by creating transformational value propositions. He
... Read MoreFollow Jeff Willinger on Twitter @jwillie SharePoint 2010 offers developers a unique and well deserved set of tools to aid in the development of SharePoint 2010 solutions. In this session we’ll cover improvements in the UI and the toolsets themselves, from PowerShell as a powerful scripting interface to the API, the Developer Dashboard, the SharePoint Toolkit in Visual Studio 2010, and more. Geoff VaroskySession Speaker
Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is a Senior Solutions Developer for Grace-Hunt, LLC (http://www.grace-hunt.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions based out of Hudson, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over a decade, and has been working with SharePoint Technologies for the pas
... Read MoreFollow Geoff Varosky on Twitter @gvaro Many SharePoint professionals are in a unique position in that they deal with not only the people of the Organization but also the processes that make that organization run. This gives them a business perspective that most employees don’t have.
Every operation is comprised of process systems, then individual processes and every process is comprised of a series of tasks or activities. In order for businesses to deliver a quality product or provide a wanted service, they must utilize a set of effective processes.
Join i3solutions’ Linc Williams, as he reviews the concepts of a Business Process Analysis and how they can be applied to SharePoint. Gain insight into how collect, review and plan for real world processes in SharePoint allowing your people to work effectively and efficiently. Attendees will learn practical tips and techniques, such as:
• An introduction to Business Processes
• Workflow Vs. Business Processes
• The 4 Steps of Business Process Mapping
• Techniques on transforming Business Process to SharePoint Features and Functions
• Introduction to a system to Map, Analyze and Document your process for use in SharePoint
• Common Pitfalls to Avoid Linc WilliamsSession Speaker Linc Williams is the Director of Strategic Services for i3solutions with over a decade of experience in the areas of Software Development, Infrastructure Design, Business Intelligence and Project Management. Mr. Williams has been responsible for the successful completion of several major solution implementations for clients such as the U.S. Army,
... Read More FICTION: Only big law firms can afford to use SharePoint
FACT: Small and mid-size law firms can get tremendous value from the standard features and functionality of SharePoint, without spending on extensive customizations or third-party products.
We will discuss applications such as new matter intake,
dashboards (Client/Attorney/Matter), financial reporting, expertise database (internal/external) and new hire on boarding.
Agenda:
- SharePoint Best Practices for law firms
- Standard edition CAL features
- Enterprise edition CAL features
- Affordable additions & planning ahead Tracey KleinSession Speaker Tracey Klein is Divisional Vice President of Sales for mindSHIFT’s Application Development & Integration practice group, managing a team of 40 consultants and software developers highly specialized on Microsoft Information Worker Solutions. She has consulted on, and managed projects for mindSHIFT’s application development customers for over 1
... Read More This session will provide an overview of enterprise search options for SharePoint 2010, including the native SharePoint search engine and the new FAST for SharePoint offering. We will cover capabilities and improvements of both platforms, as well as high level architecture and search administration. Bob GermanSession Speaker Bob German is a Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Boston, MA. Bob specializes in web sites, portals and collaboration technologies, including Microsoft SharePoint and related technologies. With over 25 years of industry experience, Bob helps customers create and prove out solutions which fit their business and technology n
... Read More We’re all aware of how much people love the iPhone, and how pervasive its adoption has become. How can we make our SharePoint projects similarly successful within the enterprise? I’ll discuss the key features that make great technology products like the iPhone so well-loved and eagerly embraced, and how a SharePoint implementation can be modeled on those success factors. Sadalit Van BurenSession Speaker
Sadie Van Buren is a Consulting Manager at Burntsand, a Gold-Certified Microsoft Partner based in Waltham, Massachusetts. Her main area of focus is designing, customizing, and managing SharePoint deployments, specifically from the perspectives of usability, design, collaboration, and social networking. Sadie has a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan
... Read MoreFollow Sadalit Van Buren on Twitter @sadalit SharePoint Philosophy 101: Throughout different media you have been bombarded with information on HOW to build a SharePoint environment and what are best practices. This is a talk on WHY. Can they all be best practices for me? How do I use what I found? Do I have the answers to why I am looking at this solution? This is a high level session that will try to help you put things into the appropriate perspective. Help you find the questions you need to answer so that you are able to pull the information you have gathered into something that is valuable and tangible. A dive into whom you sho7uld bring into the planning stages of your SharePoint environment, or if you already have SharePoint how to save it from becoming a three headed monster devouring your IT. David J Pileggi Jr.Session Speaker David has been working with SharePoint for the last 5 ½ years. He worked for the first 1 ½ years as an administrator for a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environment. The remainder of the time he has been a consultant building SharePoint solutions for wide range of companies, including Fortune 500 companies. When not consulting he is busy teachi
... Read More With a lot new features included in SharePoint 2010, it has and will become very easy for the developers to design, develop compelling and robust applications and deploy them safely using the new Sandboxed Solutions. The speaker would speak on why we need Sandboxed Solutions; cover Sandbox Solution Building, Deployment, Debugging, Monitoring and various other stages. Srini SistlaSession Speaker Srini is Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist with over 10 years of experience designing and implementing IT solutions on a variety of platforms, including SharePoint Services, SharePoint Server 2007 and now evaluating SharePoint 2010 beta. He works in many areas within SharePoint; however, his area of expertise includes SharePoint Features,
... Read More Search applications hold great promise for business value that never becomes realized. Enterprise class infrastructure products have many features which go unutilized due to perceived complexity or ignorance as to how to map features with business process efficiency requirements. This session will address leveraging search technology toward effective business solutions with a roadmap-based search infrastructure. Emphasis will be given to SharePoint 2010 facilities.
Jose M. ColonSession SpeakerMr. Colon has more than 20 years experience in providing customized technical solutions delivery to private sector clients. Under the employment of industry leading product vendors and in his own private consultation practice, he has built solutions for Fortune 500 companies in the financial, energy, legal, entertainment, manufacturing, and pharma
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