Much of what is published and presented on SharePoint is aimed at a relatively technical audience. If you review the myriad of SharePoint conferences, SharePoint Saturday sessions and blog content, you’ll find very little content for non-technical folks. More importantly, much of the content that does exist, wants you to come to one conclusion – SharePoint is the right platform.
Unfortunately, if you’re a manager or an executive trying to understand the strategic choices related to SharePoint as a platform, or perhaps you’re trying to decide what to do with an existing implementation, it’s difficult to find good objective guidance. Worse yet, if you’re evaluating whether SharePoint is even the right platform for certain requirements, how do you effectively compare your options?
Recently, the Real Story Group and Information Today developed a new conference, the SharePoint Strategy Summit. This conference is specifically targeted at the non-technical manager or executive. The program, just a brief two-day affair, focuses on providing you with the information necessary to help you make the strategic decisions necessary for a successful SharePoint implementation (including helping you understand when SharePoint isn’t good choice).
During these two days, the conference covers topics including:
- SharePoint as an Enterprise 2.0 platform
SharePoint might seem nearly ubiquitous as an enterprise collaboration platform, yet many organizations are still in the process of deciding whether or how to adopt it as part of a broader intranet platform. In the meantime, Microsoft is heavily touting new social and community services in the latest version, SharePoint 2010. Get an objective overview of what works well—and poorly—in SharePoint 2010.
- Strategic alternatives to SharePoint
If you don't go with SharePoint, or chose to put boundaries around the platform, what other alternatives await you beyond Redmond? Learn the pros and cons of SharePoint alternatives.
- Compliance and Records Management
Records management is not a SharePoint strong point. Large SharePoint deployments represent a particular challenge when it comes to the long-term retention, disposition, and discovery of information. This session explores the limitations of the platform and the alternatives you may want to consider. What sorts of steps do you need to take to batten down SharePoint so that it passes regulatory muster?
- The Real Cost of SharePoint
The licensing structure for SharePoint has been a source of confusion for many customers. However, once you buy the software, the real costs of a solution begin. What should expect to spend?
- Governance Models and Lessons Learned
Everyone agrees governance is critical—even essential—to long-term success with SharePoint. But how to do it and where to start? Join a panel of consultants and customers who will outline different ways that they’ve gotten SharePoint under control within their organizations. There’s no simple answer here—but you should come away with an approach that works for you.
Unlike other conferences that tend to be heavy on PowerPoint presentations, this conference has a pretty even mix of panel-style debates, moderated roundtable discussions and more traditional presented sessions. The goal is to create a very interactive experience and enable attendees to get closer to experts, as well as more deeply engage with other attendees.
If this sounds like the right conference for you, visit the SharePoint Strategy Summit registration page. The conference is just two weeks away and there are just a few remaining slots available.
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