Enhance Your App with SharePoint: Automation, Collaboration, and Data Integration Techniques

1. SharePointintersectionSession SP17Leveraging SharePoint Capabilities to Extend Your App Paul Schaeflein paul@schaeflein.net

2. Agenda • Model and automate business processes • Communicate and collaborate with people and track content • Add location and mapping features • Make search results more relevant • Access data from external data systems • Work with data, convert file formats, and translate sites • Work with user access, roles, rights, and claims. • Discover content in electronic format for legal purposes

3. Model and automate business processes • Workflow Manager • Workflow Manager 1.0 is focused on delivering these key capabilities: • High Density & Multi-tenancy • Elastic Scale • Activity / Workflow Artifact Management • Tracking and Monitoring • Instance Management • Fully Declarative Authoring • REST and Service Bus Messaging • Visual Studio Tooling • POSH management http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193528(v=azure.10).aspx

4. Communicate and collaborate with people and track content • Team Sites • Store documents, calendars, etc • OneDrive for Business (a.k.a. Personal Site [f.k.a. My Sites]) • Personal storage for documents • Exposed thru Office Graph • Social • Futures • Add objects to the Office Graph • Leverage Yammer for social http://developer.yammer.com/opengraph/ http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/11/introducing-codename-oslo-and-the-office-graph/

5. Make search results more relevant • Federated Search • Pass query to remote index • Content Crawling • Include your website – crawled just like Bing • Search Connector – define properties of your content • Search Results • Vastly improved – completely customizable • Control Templates • Item Templates • Hover card templates • Analytics included http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163300(v=office.15).aspx

6. Access Publish data from external data systems • Business Connectivity Services • Reveal external data from enterprise applications, web services, and OData services in SharePoint Server 2013 and in rich-client Office applications. • Provide complete interaction with the data, including write-back capabilities from Office applications and SharePoint Server to the underlying external system data and business objects. • Common data access API regardless of data format/location. • “Tag” SharePoint content with values from LOB systems.

7. BCS – Search Connector

8. Work with data, convert file formats, and translate sites • Business intelligence (BI) and Insights • Enable people to find, analyze, and share information about their work or business. • Simple apps • Let users create basic apps that contain a reliable backing store. • File conversion • Converts Word and PowerPoint files and streams to other formats. • Combined with OpenXML – makes a powerful “printer” • Translation • Translates sites, documents, and streams for multilingual support.

9. Work with user access, roles, rights, and claims. • Do you need to write the following? • Authentication • Authorization (Access Control) • Group management • SharePoint has it for free! • Need to integrate with other systems / applications? • Identity Federation is built in to SharePoint & Azure • OAuth is too 

10. Discover content in electronic format for legal purposes • The eDiscovery Center • Central SharePoint site to manage preservation, search & export • SharePoint and Exchange content • SharePoint In-Place Hold • Preserves entire SharePoint sites • Exchange In-Place Hold • Preserves Exchange mailboxes • Query-based preservation • Allows users to apply query filters to one or more Exchange mailboxes and SharePoint sites and restrict the content that is held. • API included • Microsoft.Office.Server.Discovery namespace

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