We are all faced with the challenge of producing more MOSS based solutions faster. Despite the true intent and significant efforts to achieve wide spread process automation across the organisation, most organisations struggle to achieve this goal due to a fundamental under estimation of the real life complexities surrounding the average business process. K2 has created a platform that significantly speeds up the creation of maintainable process driven applications in, and around MOSS.
Some of the areas that will be discussed and where K2 is adding value in the context of MOSS related business process automation are:
- Architectural flexibility for scale-up and scale-out scenarios.
- Cross site and farm wide solution scenarios.
- Graphical process solution design experience.
- Effective deployment between Development, Test and Production environments.
- Task list consolidation and multi channel access to task items.
- Centralized tracking and reporting.
- Escalation, delegation and Out-of-Office scenarios and the related impact of working hours, public holidays and time zones.
- Role and group based design and execution.
- Task allocation logic.(e.g. round robin, skills, cost or location based task allocation scenarios)
- Bi-Directional interaction between multiple business processes.
- Reuse of solution components.
- Parallel, serial, rework and voting scenarios.
- Runtime Process Management (e.g. how will we know when a process is in error state and how do we get it running again)
- Version management. (e.g. How do we let 2 different versions of the same process driven application co-exist in the same runtime environment while maintaining the correlation across all solution components that may include multiple versions of process definitions, InfoPath forms and other solution elements)
This session will be conducted in the form of a workshop style presentation and demo to work with attendees in building out a business process driven application using K2 blackpoint, MOSS and InfoPath. Hennie LaubscherSession SpeakerHennie leads the K2 team in Australia.
Before relocating from Seattle, WA to Australia in Jan 2009, he was the chief operating officer for SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. ("K2") He joined K2 in 2002 from Accenture and led the establishment of K2's business in Asia Pacific and North America. Hennie holds a bachelor of engineering
... Read MoreThis session covers the best practices around design, capacity planning and deployment for a successful MOSS 2007 implementation.
This session will also cover readiness for SharePoint 2010! Aaron SaikovskiSession Speaker Aaron Saikovski is a Senior SharePoint consultant with Microsoft Services Australia. He specialises in SharePoint architecture, development, deployment, administration and training. He is a certified Microsoft Technology specialist, consultant and trainer with over 17 years commercial IT experience. He has consulted for various sized Microso
... Read MoreThis session covers best practice design and planning for setting up a highly available and disaster tolerant SharePoint 2007 farm. The session focuses on real-world guidance for building fault tolerance into a SharePoint environment for organizations of varying sizes. Cost-effective and easy solutions are presented and compared to more complex global failover options. Specific topics include SQL Server 2005/2008 Database Mirroring, network load balancing, replication with third-party products, and backup and restore options for the farm.
- Examine how Database Mirroring techniques with SQL Server 2008/2005 can be used with SharePoint content.
- Identify how to eliminate single points of failure from a SharePoint farm.
- Learn some ‘Alternative’ techniques for making SharePoint redundant, such as through replication of content to multiple farms.
Michael NoelSession Speaker Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored several major best-selling industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 1
... Read MoreMany SharePoint administrators now find themselves (often reluctantly) involved in managing the SQL Server installation that supports their SharePoint farms. In this session Greg will cover the most important aspects of SQL Server that a SharePoint administrator needs to understand and dispel a number of common myths about the product. Greg LowSession Speaker Greg Low - is an internationally recognized consultant, developer and trainer. He has been working in development since 1978 and holds a Ph.D. in computer science. Greg is the country lead for Solid Quality Mentors, a SQL Server MVP and one of only three Microsoft Regional Directors for Australia. Greg also hosts the popular SQL Down Under podcast
... Read MoreCome join us as we learn how the largest public SharePoint site in Australia (www.WorleyParsons.com) got up and running.
Adam Cogan of SSW will share his experience and lessons learnt on this project. Adam will also show you how to sexify the look and feel of your site (or de-SharePointing with style)
More info:
1. Why companies want SharePoint's Web Content Management
2. How to sexify the look and feel (aka de-SharePointing with style)
3. Reducing use of tables via ASP.NET control adapters
4. Cross-browser compatibility - the easy way with JQuery
5. How to use the Custom Navigation Control Adapters - the golden pearl
6. Customizing SharePoint web parts
7. How to deploy (and how you can avoid three all-nighters)
8. Performance - targeting anonymous users
9. The lessons learned (aka rules) Adam CoganSession Speaker Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint and Business Intelligence solutions. At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Qu
... Read MoreDiscussion on decision points on building SharePoint vs .Net applications and techniques for successfully blending the two.
Addressing topics such as:
Pro’s and Con’s of developing on top of a SharePoint or custom .Net applications or combining the two.
Techniques for ASP.Net applications working on-top and beside SharePoint Elaine van Bergen & Aaron DinnageSession Speaker Elaine has been working extensively with SharePoint since the 2001 version, including participation in RDP’s and other projects alongside Microsoft. She has been involved in all areas of projects including gathering requirements, assisting with governance, defining infrastructure and application architecture, solution development and training. Cur
... Read MoreContent Deployment is one of the final frontiers where SharePoint administrators fear to tread. Mark will explore Content Deployment from its origin to its future and covers his experiences when using content deployment in production environments, including tips and tricks to get your content deployment running smoothly, and how to keep it that way! Mark RhodesSession Speaker Mark is a Technology Specialist for Emantra in Brisbane. Mark has over 10 years experience working in the IT sector, and has specialized in hosted technologies for the last 5, concentrating on Microsoft Web based technologies. Mark has designed and implemented large scale SharePoint and CRM farms for many of Australia’s Hosting Firms and is resp
... Read MoreMake the most of SharePoint Designer 2007 for creating and developing SharePoint customizations, including master page, page layouts, themes and data driven Web parts. In this session we discuss pros and cons around various deployment methods when deploying SharePoint customizations and the interplay between master pages and themes. Kathy HughesSession Speaker Kathy Hughes, SharePoint MVP, is an independent SharePoint Consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Her main area of interest is in architecting and customizing SharePoint, and .NET deployments, specifically from a usability and design perspective.
... Read MoreAre you suffering from browser tunnel vision? A chronic condition caused by staring at business productivity solutions solely through the four corners of a 1024x768 frame. Luckily, Office and SharePoint together can deliver the best productivity experience across the PC, Phone & Browser. In this session we will recap what you depend on today and what you can look forward to in the future of business productivity. Alistair SpeirsSession Speaker After years of working with SharePoint as a consulting developer, Alistair looked at the other side of the Office System and joined Microsoft as a Technology Specialist for Office. Alistair works with organisations improve their productivity and collaboration capabilities.
... Read MoreIn this session Brian Farnhill will discuss how you can protect your SharePoint sites once you let them out in the wild for your users to play with. He will show several practical demonstrations aimed at developers, administrators and people involved in planning SP sites, covering topics such as security, look and feel and deploymento f custom components. If you have seen users take to a site and do some seemingly random things to it, then this session is for you! Brian FarnhillSession Speaker Brian Farnhill is an experienced SharePoint developer, with several years of experience developing and implementing a range of SharePoint based solutions for several clients. He is an active member of the SharePoint community who blogs, assists in the MSDN forums and helps run the Canberra SharePoint User Group, where he is also a regular speaker.
... Read MoreIn this session, SharePoint MVP Ishai Sagi will demonstrate how to build a web part for SharePoint from scratch, and the will demonstrate some of the most elusive best practices that web part developers need to know. Ishai SagiSession Speaker A SharePoint expert since 2001, Ishai has worked for several consulting companies, and developed many SharePoint solutions and is now working for UniqueWorld Australia as a Solution Architect. He was awarded the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP award from Microsoft for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. Ishai is the author of the popular SharePo
... Read MoreLearn how to leverage the Business Data Catalog (BDC) to bring data from your ERP system into SharePoint and then use this business data to build enterprise mash-ups linking structured and unstructured data from multiple sources. Kristian KalsingSession Speaker Kristian has been working with enterprise solutions involving the SharePoint platform since its first release. In recent years, he has been assisting large organisations with bridging the gap between the SAP and Microsoft technology stacks and bringing enterprise data and functionality closer to users in an environment they are comfortable in.
... Read MoreStrategies for Creating a High Performance SharePoint Environment. The session will focus on key challenges surrounding the deployment of SharePoint environments in relation to today’s knowledge worker. Dino CavestanySession SpeakerDino has experience 5 years of experience working in SharePoint environments of various sizes, including a SharePoint farm for a large bank in Singapore, managing a team of 7 people. He has had experience working with support teams and with systems integrators, before starting his work for AvePoint.
... Read MoreIn this session Rai will discuss the motivations, challenges and best practices for Geographically Distributed Deployments for SharePoint. Rai UmairSession Speaker Rai Umair is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint and is a Principal Consultant within the SharePoint\OBA practice at Stargate Global Consulting. Rai lives, drinks and evangelizes SharePoint by day and is a Masters student majoring in Enterprise Architecture by night. Rai has been working with Microsoft technologies with a keen eye on busin
... Read MoreDocument imaging brings the worlds of IT solutions and paper together in a way that improves productivity and transparency.
As an integrated Enterprise Content Management platform Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows users to:
- scan paper documents and paper forms to a central repository
- search for scanned paper documents and forms using SharePoint’s search engine
- view scanned documents and forms from multiple locations; and
- automate business processes that are in part paper-based
This session will demonstrate how you can become a hero by using your existing SharePoint knowledge to take control of your organization’s paper documents and paper forms. Neil HaddleySession Speaker Neil Haddley is an entertaining speaker who used to tell people how cool SharePoint is for a living (working for Microsoft as a Technical Sales Professional). Now Neil tells people how cool SharePoint is for free.
For the last four years Neil has been researching how best to use SharePoint to handle paper documents and paper forms.
The p
... Read MoreThe DataView Web Part is one of the greatest “hidden gems” in SharePoint. The power and flexibility of the DataView Web Part allow your extract information from Databases, Web Services and many other data sources, and the best things about it is there is “No Code Required”. During this presentation we will step through the basic building blocks that enable you to use the DataView Web Part to aggregate information throughout your SharePoint Portal. James MilneSession SpeakerWith over 15 years of direct IT experience James has spent the last five years working exclusively with enterprise level SharePoint Solutions. Prior to this James spent a number of years working for a leading integration company based in Silicon Valley. While working directly with large customers such as Intel and Siebel, James gained an in-depth
... Read MoreAs SharePoint is getting more and more popular, users are increasing demanding access to SharePoint data in new ways, and on new platforms. Tim Kremer will discuss developing rich client applications for Microsoft SharePoint, based on his experience in developing iShare – SharePoint for iPhone. This talk will include an overview of SharePoint webservices, authentication gotchas, experiences supporting varied SharePoint deployments, and opinions on mobile development. Whether you’re developing a Silverlight webpart or integration with other business systems, knowledge of SharePoint’s web services is becoming increasingly valuable. Related link: http://www.spyk.com/products/iShare/Tim KremerSession Speaker Tim Kremer is the Director of Spyk Software and has lead the development of some of Australia’s largest SharePoint sites, including the intranet for the highest rating TV Station and the public site for Australia’s largest engineering firm.
... Read MoreIn this presentation Michael will describe how to deploy and configure the SharePoint environment from scratch, covering different farm scenarios and providing practical instructions of how to generate a strong SharePoint baseline. Michael NemtsevSession Speaker Michael has been an expert in software engineering since 2000 year, and SharePoint since 2006 on different roles - from Architect to Code Reviewer. With strong software engineering and development background, Michael has been leading development projects for industry giants like Microsoft, IBM and Dell. Michael holds MVP status since year 20
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