New Zealand SharePoint Conference

Vendor_Track

Vendor Track

A chance to see all the amazing enhancements and value add opportunities from 3rd Party Products. These demonstrations will show you how certain products can help to improve your SharePoint experience. Come and see a short 25 minute demonstration, chat to the experts and learn what can be done.

This is the proposed schedule, which will be finalised within the next few weeks, including details of the session and the speaker.

Day	Time	Company	Session Description	Speaker Details
DAY ONE
	11:00am
	11:45am	Information Leadership	Come and see our exciting range of features that let you extend SharePoint for common business problems that SharePoint struggles with. We’ll show you how they give a better user experience, simply information architecture for BA’s and let your dollars go further without custom development. Smart Folders – for case files This feature simplifies case file management, by making it easy for teams to create and maintain their cases, without having to have administrator rights to secure certain case files. Completed cases are automatically moved to remove clutter, and can dramatically simplify R&D rules for recordkeeping. Users love their simplicity and it’s a perfect solution for HR personnel, HSE cases, legal matters etc Template Central - for easy propagation of standard document templates Lets you centrally manage templates (eg Word, Excel) and make them available for users from the “New” menu in their document libraries Create views for different audiences. Consider who will be using the templates and create the relevant grouped, sorted views they will use to pick a template. Templates can be security trimmed as well, so that staff see more or less templates depending on their role. Intranet / Smart News / Smart Links / Columns – for cost effective intranet and term store use – for cost effective intranet and term store use These features give you great ways of displaying intranet content, such as lists and news. They let you distribute or aggregate news, links, custom list items from anywhere to anywhere. Also see how to make the term store much more “usable” so as a BA you can treat the content of a term store column just as you would a normal metadata column – for views, filtering, refinement and retention and disposal.	Ian Morrish, Senior Solutions Consultant, Information Leadership Ian Morrish is the author of highly influential SharePoint blog (wssdemo) which includes the largest list of SharePoint internet sites. He has been a speaker at Microsoft TechEd every year since it started. He is now the Senior Solutions Consultant at Information Leadership, who have over 35 PRA grade document and knowledge management implementations throughout NZ. Prior to joining Information Leadership, Ian was a consultant at Microsoft where he focused on collaboration and knowledge management systems implementation. Ian is a SharePoint Insider and has SharePoint Elite and Business Value Planning Services Certifications. David Seel, Senior Consultant, Information Leadership David is a talented SharePoint project leader and information designer. He has worked on many of our successful implementations in local and central government, health, education and utilities. David’s real world background in engineering, IT and general management gives him a pragmatic business oriented style that is appreciated by executives, information managers and technical staff alike.
	12:15pm	OnePlaceMail	OnePlaceMail: A fast paced and practical demonstration (no PowerPoint) showing integration between Outlook, File Explore and Microsoft SharePoint/Office 365. This session will be using the Free Express Edition of OnePlaceMail (Enterprise edition details will be available at the OnePlaceMail booth) and provides a practical how to demonstration on: 1. Dragging & dropping emails and attachments from Outlook to SharePoint/Office 365 (capturing Email Attributes and saving in the native .msg format) 2. Classifying emails and attachments with SharePoint Metadata (Columns including Enterprise keywords, Managed Metadata) 3. Searching and accessing the full power of SharePoint from within Microsoft Outlook 4. Saving files from File Explorer to SharePoint 5. Saving Content to SharePoint Lists (in addition to Libraries)	Speaker Details James Fox is the CEO and founder of Scinaptic (OnePlaceMail) and has been working with organisations around the world for almost 20 years implementing solutions for better information management, collaboration and workflow.
	12:45-1:30pm	LUNCH
	1:30pm	NewsGator	As a Microsoft Gold Certified and Depth Managed Partner, NewsGator is helping three million paid users in industries across the globe propel the future of productivity. No other social software vendor can rival our deep integration with the entire Microsoft stack – reducing your total cost of ownership while increasing adoption, collaboration, and innovation. NewsGator Social Sites allows organizations to seamlessly take advantage of the SharePoint platform – leveraging native profiles, security, compliance, search, programming APIs, and other collaboration & ECM capabilities. And for all that, Microsoft named us a 2011 Partner of the Year. We’re making SharePoint and Office365 social
	2:00pm	Imperva	SharePoint Security 101 SharePoint is big, very big. In fact, it is one of the fastest growing products in Microsoft’s history, achieving more than a billion in revenue in 2009. This represents a 30% year-over-year growth. As one analyst ominously described, “SharePoint is like a virus growing inside the organization.” But the real question is this: How did Microsoft take into account security when building SharePoint? Given Microsoft’s spotty record in security, when it comes to SharePoint, Britney may have summarized it best: “Ooops, I did it again.” This talk will: - Highlight SharePoint use cases and potential security issues - Offer best practices for SharePoint security planning and management - Provide key mitigation steps that enterprises implement to minimize the odds of a data breach	Kane’s 10+ years in the IT Security sector has seen him assist organizations of all sizes across Australia and New Zealand protect their systems and networks from malicious attacks. As the Regional Director for Imperva Australia & New Zealand, Kane spends his time working with companies to help assist them understand the value of their data and the risks that exist to it via malicious attacks, misuse and inappropriate access. Kane is widely regarded as an expert in the field of data security.
	2:45pm	Nintex	Nintex Workflow and Forms: From One Blank Screen to One Working Solution in Twenty-Five Minutes or Less Come to an all-demo, PowerPoint-free session to watch a workflow solution be built before your eyes using the latest Nintex technology. It will feature process design, desktop- and mobile-friendly forms, corporate data, cloud services, Office 365, and iterative process improvement. You will see an environment and an approach that’s easy to use, easy to manage, and easy to understand – without compromising power or governance. The result will be a workable solution with SharePoint at its core.	Mike Fitzmaurice
	3:15pm	AvePoint	The blueprint for governance in SharePoint 2010 is here. AvePoint’s DocAve 6 platform simplifies the deployment, monitoring, and enforcement of SharePoint 2010 governance policies to increase business productivity, reduce total cost of ownership, provide IT assurance, and enable security and compliance for enterprise content. Complete with robust migration, integration, management, optimisation, protection, and reporting capabilities for SharePoint 2010, DocAve 6 allows for centralised or delegated management of SharePoint farms hosted on-premise, or in private and public clouds such as Office 365. Easily manage development, test, and production farms, and govern solution and component deployment with DocAve's application lifecycle management tools.	David Dislers Technical Solutions Professional, AvePoint
	3:45-4:15pm	AFTERNOON TEA
	4:15pm	Quest	SharePoint governance has too often become the “next big thing”. In truth, governance flows from core business needs, and defines roles, policies and procedures to channel and direct effective SharePoint usage. Join me for a session on how to plan tools and processes that support an enterprise governance program – including security, reporting, usability, reliability, and support.
	4:45pm	OpenText	Information Governance: How can I achieve this in a world of Microsoft SharePoint and SAP? And all my other systems.. To most the word governance is synonymous with compliance, which is then in turn synonymous with records management. After that the focus becomes very specific. When people try to understand how they should approach governance is to approach it as a strategy and make sure that strategy involves and intertwines three things: people, process and technology. Sounds simple in theory, not as easy in practice. What about external Financial Solutions like SAP? What about my file systems and legacy applications? What do I do if I work in a highly regulated industry like Public Sector, Manufacturing and Resources or Financial Services? Join Owen Brandt, Strategic Alliance Director & Microsoft Lead, OpenText APJ, as he discusses some real world examples and articulates what to consider when the world of SAP looms into view to an Information Manager….	Harald Rossman, Senior Solutions Consultant, OpenText

Day	Time	Company	Session Description	Speaker Details
DAY TWO	10:30am	Colligo	Best Practices for Driving Enterprise-Wide SharePoint Adoption and User Engagement If you’re like most organizations, SharePoint has found a foothold in a few departments and a certain percentage of users. You’ve made a big investment in SharePoint, so how do you drive SharePoint adoption throughout the organization and turn users into fans? In this session, you’ll learn how Colligo’s enterprise solutions bring SharePoint to the user in order to drive superior SharePoint adoption and engagement. Whether you need to connect Outlook to SharePoint for email management or provide offline access to SharePoint for mobile staff, Colligo seamlessly integrates SharePoint into to the applications and devices that people use every day, including iPads and mobile devices.	Trevor is the Director of Product Management for Colligo Networks, the leader in email and document management solutions for SharePoint. A regular speaker at international SharePoint events, Trevor brings 17 years’ experience in high tech to his role developing products that drive SharePoint adoption while meeting the business needs of the enterprise. Trevor has co-authored three US patents, and won an Emmy award for his pioneering work on MPEG video.
	11:00am	K2	Introduction to K2 Forms- Workflow and BPM Solutions, faster than ever before. Forms creation and maintenance is one of the most time consuming and expensive elements on workflow and BPM solution projects. With the introduction of K2 Forms, highly manageable workflow and BPM solutions can be built faster than ever before. K2 Forms eliminates the need for custom code, reduces time to market and cuts application lifecycle costs. K2 Forms offers a browser-based environment for building forms that can be used and reused in multiple applications including SharePoint, solutions that integrate with your line-of-business systems, and workflow and other process-based applications. More information on K2 Forms available here: http://www.k2.com/en/smartforms.aspx
	11:45am	Axceler	Develop and Enforce SharePoint Governance Policies SharePoint farms can quickly become difficult to manage as sites proliferate and become a nightmare for administrators. Some of the most common challenges administrators face today include: poorly managed permissions leading to security gaps, deployments that quickly become time-consuming to manage, limited view into the status of the SharePoint activity, uncontrolled growth of sites and site collections, and no ability to managed the increasing set of site administrators. ControlPoint, the leading SharePoint administration product, gives powerful control with comprehensive SharePoint security, move and copy content capabilities, SharePoint reporting and in-depth SharePoint analysis.	Robert has over 10 years’ experience in the IT industry, starting as a consultant. He joined Axceler in 2008 to assist with the launch of ControlPoint in EMEA and spent 3 years building both the brand and client base. In 2011, Robert moved to Australia and took up the technical lead role for Axceler in APAC. His role as Senior SharePoint Solutions Consultant for Axceler APAC is to work with the channel to deliver on company goals, offering expert services in 1. product demonstrations 2. seminars 3. pre-sales training 4. tender response support 5. consultant support and training 6. support training In this role, Robert has seen the client base jump from 10 to 40 delighted customers and oversees the provision of pre-sales support, partner readiness and both implementation and product support for APAC. Job Title: Sr. SharePoint Solutions Consultant at Axceler
	12:15pm	Syntergy	Syntergy Data Moving Syntergy products, services and solutions move your data more quickly and efficiently, enhance your global performance and extend your local content further than ever before. Tools for replication, data migration and global monitoring ensure that you get the most out of your investment in enterprise content management solutions. Experience data moving like never before.
	12:45-1:30pm	LUNCH
	1:30pm	Mindjet	Mindjet Connect SP enhances Microsoft SharePoint, delivering a powerful collaborative work solution that gives people the ability to access SharePoint content, manage SharePoint tasks, and work together more effectively on projects—all through an intuitive visual framework. Mindjet Connect SP’s interactive maps help people get on the same page and stay in sync.	Cameron Ackbury brings over 15 years of domestic and international experience in software technology to Mindjet. As their General Manager of Asia Pacific, he is responsible for growing new license revenue and market growth throughout the region. Most recently, Cameron was a key member of the senior management team for Parature, a leading software vendor for on-demand customer support and services, where he exceeded targeted revenue numbers and grew the western region of the United States.
	2:00pm	Lightning Tools	Using BCS Meta Man to provide connections to External Data Sources Within this session delegates who attend the BCS session by Brett Lonsdale will learn how to use BCS Meta Man to provide connections to external data sources such as Oracle, SQL, and ODBC data sources without having to write any code. With BCS out of the box you will have to author code unless you are connecting to SQL, in which case you can use SharePoint Designer to provide basic SQL External Content Types. If you require more complex connections due to complex database schema’s or you wish to connect to a data source besides SQL, this session will provide you with a demonstration of a tool that can provide your connectivity within minutes.
	2:45pm	Attini	Let us at Attini show you how we socialise your intranet and solve problems like, “Information is hard to find, it’s locked away in team sites, lists and libraries that are spread all over the place” or “There is too much information, I’m overloaded. I just want to see the best stuff, and that which is relevant to me” or “SharePoint replaced lots of our ‘Data Islands’, but Site Collections are still islands, they’re just a little closer together.”
	3:15pm	Fuji Xerox	‘Join this session and let Fuji Xerox show you how to integrate your hard copy documents with Microsoft SharePoint, and how to extract valuable business data and information from plain paper. Using powerful document capture and processing software Fuji Xerox can help your organisation extend the power of SharePoint to include hard copy documents. This session will include a live demonstration covering a variety of scenarios: - Automated invoice processing - see how paper invoices can be scanned, processed and uploaded into SharePoint, including automatic extraction of the invoice data and population into SharePoint columns. - Legal Document Scanning - learn how sophisticated OCR technology can streamline the capture and upload of valuable legal documents, including the automated extraction of metadata. - Survey Form Processing - using OMR technology we’ll show you how survey forms and questionnaires, etc, can be processed automatically, extracting response data and questions and automatically uploading the survey form image and extracted data into a SharePoint library. Once the preserve of only the largest ‘enterprise’ organisations, the software we will be demonstrating is incredibly powerful and very cost effective - the last few years has seen performance and functionality increase alongside a major reduction in cost. This session will be a fast paced, live demonstration and you will leave with a much greater understanding of how to integrate plain paper into SharePoint. Benefits include: - Major cost reductions - Improved efficiency - Increased accuracy - Better ROI on existing SharePoint deployment - Increased user adoption’	Paul Proctor - Consultant Document Management and Business Process Engineering
	3:45-4:15pm	AFTERNOON TEA
	4:15pm	Metalogix	Optimize Your SharePoint Performance and Investment Microsoft SharePoint 2010 takes a giant leap forward from previous versions. It includes many new features and capabilities which allow many customers to explore the options for upgrading and consolidating their SharePoint servers. We’ll show you how to upgrade from WSS 2.0, SharePoint 2003, WSS 3.0, or SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010. The session will also show how to handle complex upgrade scenarios, including 32-bit to 64-bit upgrades and the use of PowerShell to extend and automate migration operations. You’ll also learn how to handle granular and partial migrations and re-structuring of list, library and site content during migration and how to take advantage of new site templates in SharePoint 2010. Despite the feature improvements that have propelled SharePoint 2010 to its current status within collaboration and content management circles there are still some considerations that have slowed enterprise adoption. One of the main challenges is large volumes of content. SQL Server wasn’t designed to house large volumes of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs). Managing BLOBs requires a significant share of SQL Server’s I/O, CPU and RAM cycles, without offering any benefits of storing these BLOBs in a relational database. The solution to this problem is to offload these BLOBS from the SQL database. Therefore, we will also be looking at how Metalogix has been enabling customers to scale their SharePoint implementations to handle large data volumes whilst still remaining within Microsoft’s boundary limits and supportability guidelines. This has allowed our customers to improve SharePoint performance, ease administration and reduce costs.	Our featured presenter will be Darren Malloy, IT Solutions Manager from Daisy Solutions
	4:45pm	Webparts 360	Building sustainable solutions in SharePoint Webparts360 not only makes building solutions easier, it also enable you to package and deploy solutions from development to production server. In fact, it is the only tool that lets you build solutions on SharePoint 2007 and deploy to SP2010. And when the next version of SharePoint comes around, you will be ready to upgrade in a flash. Come and see how this amazing tool transforms system documentation process into building the solution. If having good SharePoint solutions is important to you, then you must NOT miss this talk. Ever seen a complete solution built in 30 minutes? Well, here's your chance !