11 Compelling Features of SharePoint 2013

With the release of SharePoint 2013 (SP2013) round the corner and many organizations contemplating a SharePoint migration to the latest version, here is a brief summary of its features and possibilities:

Branding
SP2013 pixel-perfect design features offer an improved designing process for internet and intranet sites. With the new features in a publishing site, successfully designing and SharePoint Site Branding a site requires less amount of SharePoint knowledge than ever before. One can use one’s existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to design great SharePoint sites.

Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
SP2013 Business Connectivity Services provides improved ways for clients to access data that lives outside SharePoint. Examples include SharePoint apps support, external list improvements, and support for OData Business Data Connectivity connections.

Business Intelligence
SharePoint-2013 Business Intelligence offers extensive BI tools for integration across Microsoft Office and other Microsoft technologies, e.g. Excel BI, Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, Visio Services, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Ediscovery
The eDiscovery functionality offers enhanced methods to help protect one’s business, such as the power to perform queries across several SharePoint farms and Exchange servers, to store and export the content discovered from SP Server / Exchange Server 2013, SharePoint in-place holds allowing simultaneous preservation and changes, and provision for searching and exporting content from file shares.

Identity Management
SP2013 Authentication improvements facilitate the way of using claims-based authentication. Moreover, new scenarios and functionality (for Exchange, Lync, Store and App Catalog apps) are enabled through the support for server-to-server and app authentication.

Mobile Devices
SharePoint-2013 presents several new features to enhance mobile device support including Optimized mobile browser experience, Device channels, Push notifications, Geolocation, Business intelligence content, and Office Web Apps.

Records Management & Compliance
SP2013 Records Management & Compliance introduce a site-based retention feature while supporting the earlier records archive and in-place record retention.

Search
SharePoint 2013 Search introduces numerous improvements for enterprise search including enhancements in search UI, search result relevance, crawling, detecting structure in unstructured content, search schema flexibility, query & crawl health reports, and significantly new search architecture.

Social Computing
SharePoint-2013 Social Computing & Collaboration present an enhanced admin / user interface and new sharing & collaboration functionality for enterprise users. Community Sites and Community Portals help knowledge and expertise flow by connecting those who have it to those who seek it through a forum experience to categorize and cultivate discussions. My Site enhancements include a better workflow for users to help enhance their profiles, store content, and keep abreast with activities of interest.

Upgrade
SP-2013 Upgrade comprises several new aspects including upgrade for service applications, upgrade for site collections, and a site health checker.

Web Content Management
SharePoint-2013 Web content management enhancements ease the process of designing publishing sites, and improve the company's authoring and publishing processes. Moreover, it helps surface dynamic web content on publishing sites through enterprise search features.


The above is a brief summary highlighting SharePoint-2013 features and possibilities and is by no means comprehensive. If you are planning a migration, a whole new world of possibilities – or “the new way to work together” – awaits you. Expert SharePoint development service providers such as Mindfire Solutions, with their investments in building expertise and years of global experience with earlier SharePoint versions, can help accelerate your SharePoint 2013 migration when you need one. If you want to customize SharePoint development service or need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s experts to personalize and extend SharePoint migration.

Share, Organize, Discover, Build and Manage With SharePoint

SharePoint makes working together easier for people because of its multifaceted capabilities. Many have compared it to a Swiss army knife – and different organizations, depending on their business needs, can use it differently. Broadly speaking, SP2010 (its latest stable release yet, also called as SP2010) classifies its Capabilities into the following six categories: Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights, and Composites. The above SP2010 capabilities roughly map on to SP2007’s Workloads: Portals, Collaboration, Content Management, Search, Business Intelligence, and Business Forms. And with the release of SharePoint-2013 round the corner, SharePoint’s benefits are also going to include a strong social dimension apart from other exciting new ways to Share, Organize, Discover, Build, and Manage.


Custom SharePoint Development
For starters, one can use SharePoint's pre-built, off-the-shelf features to quickly deploy productivity & collaboration sites. This part – the core of Microsoft-SharePoint – is powerful and takes care of many generic business needs. However, no two businesses run totally alike. Recognizing this fact, the Microsoft product has been designed to be powerfully flexible and extensible. SharePoint Application development is employed by organizations around the world, in simple to sophisticated ways, to customize sharepoint-installations to their unique business context. You can have SharePoint's core capabilities powerfully customized and/or extended, through thoughtful custom development, to make it fit your organizational context best, and in doing so, to leverage SP’s true power by turning it into a competitive advantage.


Expert Services
Mindfire Solutions provides expert custom development services in SharePoint backed by over six years of development services experience in the technology. Mindfire is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has successfully executed 100+ technical projects in the technology for its global clients cutting across industry domains. Mindfire's certified developers are trusted by clients for their technical expertise and delivery excellence in the Microsoft technologies. We are a one-stop service provider offering a wide range of custom SharePoint development services. Our SharePoint development India services comprise of solutions including Enterprise Portals, Community Sites, Document Management, Content Management, Custom Sharepoint Web Parts development , Custom Workflow, Migration, Integration, Site Branding, InfoPath Solutions & SharePoint Deployment Planning services. We have made deep use of SharePoint technologies in production systems for our global clients. Examples include:

• SP-2010 Extranet Site for Renewable Energy Company & CRM integration.
• Custom Workflow & Search for Sales & Distribution app using SP-2010.
• Complete Risk Management System for Bio Fuel Producer using SP-2010.
• Web Service suite for Software Service Provider using MOSS 2007.
• ASP.NET to SharePoint porting for Energy Provider using WSS 3.0.
• Site branding & 3rd-party API integration for Real Estate app with WSS 3.0
• Travel Management Portal using WSS 3.0, ASP.NET 3.5.
• Insurance Vertical Web Parts using WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, ASP.NET 3.5.
• Web Parts Implementation for Extranet Project Management Portal with MOSS 2007.
• Complete Business Management Solution for Software Service Provider using WSS 3.0.
• Document Management Portal for Confectionery Company.
• E-Library system using SP-2010 Foundation.
• Governance Assurance System using MOSS 2007.

If you want to customize SharePoint development India or need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s experts to personalize and extend Sharepoint Web Parts development.