Essential Sharepoint 2013 ─ Practical Guidance for Meaningful Business Results

Get the most business value from Microsoft SharePointR 2013!

Essential SharePoint 2013 approaches the newest release of SharePoint from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business performance.

With 85% new and revamped content from a team of long-time enterprise SharePoint consultants, this book will help you focus on the SharePoint features, capabilities, and applications that offer the most real-world value. You'll find practical advice for succeeding with content management, business intelligence, and process improvement, and for deriving value from SharePoint 2013's most significant new innovations.

The authors offer comprehensive, "in the trenches" guidance on planning, architecture, governance, training, and other key issues most SharePoint books ignore. Drawing on their immense experience, they identify success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas," helping you reduce risk and time-to-value. Learn how to:

• Manage user, operational, and application governance
• Upgrade efficiently from earlier versions of SharePoint
• Leverage SharePoint's cloud capabilities where they make business sense
• Implement effective SharePoint security
• Build effective ECM, WCM, social, and search-based applications
• Take full advantage of composites and business process tools
• Deliver SharePoint solutions through mobile devices
• Leverage the rest of Microsoft Office 2013/Office 365
• And much more

Scott Jamison, Chief Architect and CEO of Jornata (www.jornata.com), is a world-renowned expert on enterprise collaboration, portal, and document management solutions and is an experienced leader with more than twenty years experience directing managers and technology professionals to deliver a wide range of business solutions for customers. Scott is a recognized thought leader and published author with several books, hundreds of magazine articles, and regular speaking engagements at events around the globe. Scott is a Microsoft Certified Master and SharePoint MVP. You can find his blog at http://www.scottjamison.com.

Susan Hanley, president of Susan Hanley LLC, is a recognized expert in the design, development, and implementation of successful portal solutions, with a specialization in Microsoft SharePoint. Sue has thirty years of experience as a technology consultant, holding leadership positions at Dell, Plural, and American Management Systems, Inc.

Chris Bortlik works at Microsoft as a SharePoint technology specialist, working with Enterprise customers and partners in the Northeast in a pre-sales technical role. Chris speaks frequently at Microsoft events (including the SharePoint Conference), and SharePoint Saturday and user group meetings. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2008, Chris was a customer for fourteen years, working in technical IT architect, development and management roles — primarily leading .NET and SharePoint related projects.