Jul 16

WPC Day 2 Summary

Tag: Other — July 16, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
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Mark Becker

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Ok – I have been taking notes prodigiously using my Netbook PC (I bought one for my wife – possibly - and I upgraded it to Windows :))  I have dumped these notes into this summary and am cleaning them up.  If it seems sort of scrambled that is why.

 

Things of Note from Bob Muglia’s Keynote

Everyone is talking about the wave.   Bob was no exception but he focused on the enterprise areas – Server, Windows 7, Virtualization and Cloud Computing…

 

MS’s competitive analysis of VMware is centered on cost – since R2 MS has answered the Vmotion capability with Live Migration.  Bob demo’d this with a running video that migrated flawlessly to another host.  MS was honest in the things that VMware still has on them but their pricing is also 5X less and System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides broader capabilities than VMware’s management utilities.

 

Things of note from Steve Ballmer’s Keynote

Keynote titled: Bright Future (this is so Steve!  He was totally on message!)

 

What Steve is here to share:

  1. Thank you
  2. Sense of optimism – sold out conference, partners optimistic
  3. Feed back
  4. Give the vision for MS down the road

 

He called our situation an economic “Reset” – not a recession or depression

“We can’t change the economy but…

…we can increase market share & customer satisfaction”

…we can increase productivity & innovation”

He is preaching that IT innovation will be key to bringing the economy back.

 

Microsoft’s 8 investments

  • 5.1B in Windows and IE
  • .9B Mobile
  • 7.6B Collab
  • 2.2B Server
  • 2.8B Enterprise
  • 1.6B Search & Ads
  • 1.5B Entertainment / TV
  • 2.8B ERP

AND 

  • 9.5B Innovation – R&D (this is not a decrease – one of the few companies)

 

Steve’s declaration:  “Adversity makes us stronger – we are going to be tenacious and partner centric”

 

Steve’s final thoughts:  “Thank you – pump up the volume on Windows 7!  Boom – make great things happen this year!”

I like Steve! 

SharePoint 2010

The FIRST and ONLY public session on SharePoint until the October Conference

 

Obligatory Stats – very interesting.

  • 61% deploying SharePoint (IDC)
  • 28% dept. deployments moving to the enterprise
  • 60-80% of deployments involve a partner
  • $6 – $9 on services for every $1 spent
  • Deals from $150k to $1M with 18-28% average in margins
  • Growing from 5.1B today to 6.6B in 3 years

 

“Workloads” they are investing in:

  • A New wheel
  • Search
  • Insights
  • Composites
  • Sites
  • Communities
  • Content
  • A new LOB connector – Business Connectivity Services (BCS).  It is supposedly much improved.

 

Details on the demo:

  • Ribbon – I could get used to the ribbon in SharePoint.  It makes sense and they have really worked on making the UI consistent and easier to use.  Ribbon is context sensitive based on what you are doing – I think due to AJAX – AJAX is implemented throughout SharePoint.
  • New type of Library, the Processes library – Demo’d a published Visio showing supply chain created in Visio, connected to a back-end system.  Very interesting.  You have to believe there was a lot underneath the covers on this one.  Look at the videos that are in the Technical Preview.
  • Document collaboration  - you can now multi-select files
  • BSC demo – using SharePoint Designer
  • Connected to a SQL table and then SPD loaded up a set of actions, etc.
  • Showed an external list created by SPD
  • Performed a write in the list – changed it in SQL
  • Workspace (formerly Groove) ribbon interface  – Workspace is SharePoint’s fat client. We will want to look at Groove more closely!
  • Lots of new project templates for developing SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio
  • Drag and drop development just like it is writing an ASP.NET solution – also snippits
  • Monitoring and slowest pages report. you can also write your own reports
  • The usage database is being opened up. You can read and write from it and write your own reports
  • Best Practices Engine – sign up for health alerts, space alerts, services alerts etc.  
  • Visual Upgrade – looks like 2007 but it is a 2010 site. Can choose preview new visuals to see what happens

 

There is a bit more 2010 information on http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/ 

 

Enjoy!

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