Essential SharePoint 2013 - 9780321884114

Get the most business value from Microsoft SharePoint® 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