joel oleson: business process automation made easy in sharepoint and office 365
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Business Process Automation Made Easy in SharePoint and Office 365
SharePoint Futures: Flow & PowerApps plus 5 Steps to successJoel OlesonDirector of Business DevelopmentKonica Minolta Business Solutions
Garret CurtisSharePoint DeveloperInfowise Solutions
Your Tour Guide:SharePoint [email protected]
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AgendaSharePoint 2016 & Office 365: Current State of Workflow & FormsFlowPowerapps5 Steps to Successful Effortless Business ProcessesIdentify low hanging fruitThen Focus on things that matter: Risk & ComplianceAnalyze AS IS Business ProcessesYou have to walk in the shoes - user experienceSolution may be more simple than you thinkInfoWise solution Demo
SharePoint 2016 + MS Workflow Futures
SharePoint 2016 has Shipped!
SP2016 & O365 - Forms and Workflow StoryInfoPath 2013 and SharePoint Designer 2013 will be the last versionsof those products. InfoPath Forms Services is included in SharePoint 2016InfoPath Forms Services on Office 365 still supportedInfoPath 2013 & SharePoint Designer 2013 lifecycle is supported until 2026.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SH8FJ4f59I
Has the Forms/workflow story changed in 2016?Not yet Still has: Workflow Manager 1.0Many Attemps at addressing thisFOSLExcel & Word formsAccess Services
NEXT UP. (In Public Preview)
The Focus is on Getting contextual Apps where you workMicrosoft Flow - making it easy to mash-up two or more different services.(Cloud workflow designer.) Cloud first.https://flow.microsoft.com/
PowerApps create and use robust business applications. Creating and exposing data to devices. Designed for mobile.https://powerapps.microsoft.com/
Workflow on the fly with Flow
If new member is added to MailChimp, Then get approval email to add to VIP SharePoint Online https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sharepoint-and-flow/Microsoft Flow is a new workflow tool that enables business users to create automation to receive notifications, synchronize files, and get data between your favorite apps and services, be it on premise or in the cloud.
Flow Most Popular
35+ differentServices
Flow: Do MoreWork less, do moreCreate automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more.
Flow.Microsoft.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8tgKBXmmPg
Flow Integration with SharePointFuture of the SharePoint integrationRead Support for SharePoint (Current)Adding read/write support for Person and Taxonomy column typesEnabling look up of multi-value properties such as Single-choice, Multiple-choice, and Lookup columnsAdding ways to leverage your existing SharePoint workflows in Microsoft Flow.http://flow.microsoft.com/search/?q=SharePoint- SharePoint focused Flow templates.
Introducing PowerApps1)Not enough skilled mobile developers.Gartner predicts, through 2017, the market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organization capacity to deliver them.*There simply arent enough skilled developers to keep up with demand for business app scenarios.2)Business data proliferation.Business data has proliferated spanning on premises systems and beyond the firewall to SaaS clouds. With data stored in many systems, it is difficult to connect to and consume related data from within an app.3)IT agility and app sharing.Mobile app distribution typically happens through app stores, or through mobile device management, governed by IT. This creates inherent friction in getting apps onto employee phones.PowerApps is an enterprise service for innovators everywhere to connect, create and share business apps with your team on any device in minutes.And PowerApps helps anyone in your organization unlock new business agility.
A primary use case for the service is to allow business users to develop these applications by dragging and dropping controls and data sources onto a form-based user interface
Intelligent SharePoint with PowerApps
SharePoint Framework and Workbench
GULPTask & Build for repetitive tasksAutomate minification, compression and more with pluginsYEOMANSharePoint Framework entirely javascript-based.Yeoman is a set of scaffolding templatesSharePoint Workbench:Test Web Parts or Applications without a connection to any server
5 Simple Steps to Effortless Workflow
MK Strupe Architecture of an Adaptive BPM Platform#1 Start with the easy Low hanging FruitVacation Request formTime CardHR OnboardingNew Employee FormsDocument PoliciesTraining + verification
Workflows that Require Signatures?What does Your approval Processes look like today?
2. Analyze Existing Business processes
Dont Get: Analysis Paralysis
3. Assess RiskDo you see any existing risks in your processes today?Manual/paper processesFaxing, Scanning, Emailing, Communications
4. Walk a document through the process
Understand & Map Biz Processeshttp://www.omoli.com/
ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC CASH/RETROREPS.COM
You have to be willing to Trying new things
Solutions May be More simple than you think
5. Talk to your users/Gather feedback:Sometimes it may sound better than it is
UAT: Release process Reality Check
Introducing Infowise
Infowise Ultimate Forms
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