State of the Industry: Whats changed with SharePoint and why it matters.

Editor's Notes

1. Office 365 and SharePoint are evolving fast. A few years ago many of us may have begun modernizing our SharePoint environments - planning an upgrade or a migration to SharePoint 2013 or even SharePoint Online. Since that time many things have changed in both SharePoint Server and Office 365, not to mention within our organizations. New services have been added, and many of those services are improving with each passing month. What approaches, strategies and rollout models are other organizations using? What can we learn from their successes?   Join us for this facilitated and interactive discussion where instead of just looking forward, we look back into key changes that we all need to understand better. This discussion will be facilitated by Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP, and internationally recognized expert on Office 365 and SharePoint. Together we will discuss what has changed in the past few years for developers, IT professionals, and SharePoint leads while exploring how organizations are leveraging these services in different ways today.
2. Richard Harbridge is the Chief Technology Officer and an owner at 2toLead. Richard works as a trusted advisor with hundreds of organizations, helping them understand their current needs, their future needs, and what actions they should take in order to grow and achieve their bold ambitions.   Richard remains hands on in his work and has led, architected, and implemented hundreds of business and technology solutions that have helped organizations transform both digitally and organizationally. Richard has a passion for helping organizations achieve more; whether it is helping an organization build beautiful websites to support great content and social strategy, or helping an organization leverage emerging cloud and mobile technology to better service their members or the communities that they serve.   Richard is an author and an internationally recognized expert in Microsoft technology, marketing and professional services. As a sought-after speaker, Richard has often had the opportunity to share his insights, experiences, and advice around branding, partner management, social networking, collaboration, ROI,  technology/process adoption, and business development at numerous industry events in around the globe. When not speaking at industry events, Richard works with Microsoft, partners, and customers as an advisor around business and technology, and serves on multiple committees, leads user groups, and is a Board Member of the Microsoft Community Leadership Board.
3. SharePoint Workflow and Flow? SharePoint Workflows (& Great 3rd Part Platforms) are still a great way to automate most structured enterprise business processes today. Flow has some focus areas that SharePoint Workflow does not have which compliments process and task automation needs, especially across systems and services (like IFTTT or Zapier). Flow includes a focus on platforms outside of SharePoint. Flow can be triggered by web hooks into external systems. Flows can take actions and events from outside your environment and automate the movement of this data into your systems. Flow allows users without list management rights to still create flows. Many flows are within an individual users context. Triggering a flow for a user based on an event that happens in their Office 365 mailbox as an example only targets that user. Flow includes a focus on the personal technologies of an individual end user allowing them to automate personal and professional processes/tasks.
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