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Delivering Systems that the Users Don't Hate: Why Office and SharePoint will change the way you work (Alistair Speirs – Technology Specialist Officehttp://blogs.msdn.com/alspeirs ) Andrew Coates – Developer Evangelisthttp://blogs.msdn.com/acoathttp://blogs.msdn.com/acoat

You spend a lot of time building and supporting disparate applications

Lots of different systems, lots of different skill sets, lots of problems

You need to deliver more value to the business without buying any more stuff

A safe environment, where your systems work for you

Deliver systems in a familiar interface, faster and easier to use

Expose more functionality in Office, without overloading the users

Evolution

Content Management Workflow & Portal Business Intelligence Business Intelligence SearchSearch Communications & Collaboration Word Processing Spreadsheets Presentations Databases PIM Office as a Platform

Comparing Documents

Office of the past was a tool for it’s time

Grow compliance adoption by reusing a common tool for business processes

In reality workflow is like an iceberg

Create Lead Qualified? Retire Lead Create Opportunity Create Quote Closed? Complete Sale Create Invoice CRM ERP Get specs from customer Validate specs with Tech Sales Estimate custom design Cost out the solution Assemble proposed response Approve proposed response Unstructured Real world Information Work

Integrating the hardest system of all… CRM? ERP? Procurement? Payroll?

Demo Building on the Office Platform

Office is being extended to reflect business practices (and not vice versa)

Analyse Maintenance History in Excel

Prepare Job Documents in Word

Plan and Assign Maintenance Work in Outlook

The reality of Office work … But 450M Office users worldwide

Solve Business Issues With OBAs

Ribbon Designer Ribbon Control Toolbox Property Grid Rapidly Creating Applications Ribbon Designers

Standard Windows User Control Rapidly Building Applications Custom Task Panes

Outlook Form Region Rapidly Creating Applications Outlook Forms Regions

Developers are extending the interface to meet unique requirements

“We now not only have the flexibility of XchangeLive (our web based product) integration with Excel services but we have built our whole report engine directly into Excel.” “The functionality that VS 2008 provides us to integrate our products is exceptional... we now have our full report engine (both report designer and viewer) integrated into the Excel ribbon.” Task Retail Technology PTY LTD SPECIALISING POS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Tools For Any Skill Level

Workflow is a core component of.NET, SharePoint and Office

Visual Studio support Deployment Tooling ALM – real.NET development

Reference Application Packs Loan Origination Supply Chain Management Price Management Manufacturing plant floor analytics Public Sector forms processing

Plenty of guidance at TechEd September 3-5 Sydney Office System track full of goodness

Resources Jensen Harris’ blog (Office UI) MSDN OBA Dev Centre OBA Central OBA Sample Application Kits.NET 3.5 Training Kit Alistair’s Blog Andrew’s Blog

Summary

“If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” - Isaac Newton 1676

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