Addressing the Long Tail:Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Overview

Justin Preston SharePoint Technology Specialist Microsoft

March 2009

Today’s IT Challenges

EmployeePortal

Project “X”Site

BusinessIntelligenceDashboard

ExtranetCollaborationSite

CustomSAPFront-End

GenevaOfficeSite

KnowledgeManagementPortal

R&DCommunity

RegulatoryComplianceRepository

CorporateWebPresence

Team “ABC”Site

SalesDivisionPortal

WeeklyIssue TrackingMeeting

The Long Tail

Products

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HeadThe set of popular products that caters to broad user segments.

TailThe set of products that caters to more specific user segments.

The Long Tail of Enterprise Content

Enterprise Content and Applications

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Collaboration Team Sites(Unstructured content)

Web Portals(Structured content)

Highly Structured EnterpriseRepositories

Departmental solutions(Structured & Unstructured)

Common features across the spectrum include:- Authoring- Metadata/Taxonomy- Workflow- Search- LOB Integration

http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2007/10/31/the-content-long-tail-and-sharepoint.aspx

TailThe set of applications and unstructured content (typically) that caters to teams.

HeadThe set of applications and structured content (typically) that caters to large audiences.

SharePoint StrategyU

ser

Base

KnowledgeManagementPortal

RegulatoryComplianceRepository

CorporateWebPresence

SalesDivisionPortal Custom

SAPFront-End

Team “ABC”Site

Project “X”Site

Weekly IssueTrackingMeeting

BusinessIntelligenceDashboard

R&DCommunity

GenevaOfficeSite

EmployeePortal

ExtranetCollabSite

Single Business Productivity Infrastructure leading to common:- Deployment Strategy- Development Strategy- End-user Experience

Enterprise Content and Applications

SharePoint 2007 Feature Areas

Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project

management “lite”, Outlook integration,

offline docs/listsCollaboration

BusinessIntelligence

Portal

Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My

Sites, social networking,

privacy control

Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance, rich people and business data

search

Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO

Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards

Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow

BusinessForms

SearchContentManagement

PlatformServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Security, Storage,Topology, Site Model