Jul 15, 2015
Microsoft
GOLD
PARTNER100%Microsoft focused
8Years in the
making
£10mGlobal revenue
PLATFORMS
• SharePoint
• Office 365
• Yammer
• Windows Azure
NUMEROUS
AWARDS
• Nielsen Norman 2014
• Best Intranet Award
GLOBAL
PRESENCE
• UK-HQ
• 5 US Offices
• 100+ employees
SPEAKERS
Brett JohnsonBusiness Productivity
Technical Sales Lead
at Microsoft, UK
Marc WrightChairman
At Simply
Communicate
Hannah Unsworth SharePoint Consultant
at BrightStarr
Sam HassaniPrincipal Consultant
(MCM) at BrightStarr
Melvin LancelotHead of Alliances,
Presales at BrightStarr
18:45 – 19:00
19:00 – 19:15
19:15 – 19:30
19:30 – 19:45
19:45 – 20:15
20:15 – 22:00
21:00
Microsoft - Exploring the biggest Microsoft developments of 2014
Simply Communicate – What’s changed in internal comms in 2014?
BrightStarr – How are these changes affecting your solutions?
BrightStarr - What’s hot in 2015 for enterprise collaboration?
BrightStarr - Unily demo - How is technology evolving in 2015?
You - Canapés & Christmas drinks!
*Christmas prize giveaway*
OUR FESTIVE AGENDA
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‘THE CLASSIC CHRISTMAS HAMPER’ FROM FORTNUM & MASON
SESSION 1EXPLORING THE BIGGEST MICROSOFT
DEVELOPMENTS OF 2014
Brett Johnson
Business Productivity
Technical Sales Lead
MICROSOFT
skype translator
skype translator
skype translator
Private, secure social network for your business
SharePoint-based file storage provides a single place to manage your content
Inline Social experiences across Office makes posting updates, docs, emails easy
Secure cloud based video upload, storage and optimized playback
Create, manage, and subscribe to various channels
Capture, share, and discover videos from any device
Interactively visualize data to uncover insights & share in the cloud
Add predictive analytics to your reports for forecasting and population plotting
Access touch-first reports across devices, anywhere for Mobile BI
Discover new information tailored to you from your network
Stay connected and informed on topics that matter the most
A natural new way to navigate, discover, and search across your organization
Insights derived from each users behavior, their relationships to content, topics and one-another.
Smart connections between people, content and conversations across Office
An extensible intelligence fabric that delivers a new era of information experiences
SESSION 2WHAT’S CHANGED FOR INTERNAL COMMS IN 2014?
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT IN 2015?
Marc Wright
Chairman
Simply Communicate
80%
7%
13%
Are you currently using internal social media?
Yes
Thinking about it
No
2014
2014 Who moved
my CSM?
2014 Upwardly
mobile
2014 The Rise of the App
2015 Email fights back
2015 A confederation
of platforms
2015 The Productivity
Paradox
SESSION 3HOW HAVE THESE CHANGES
AFFECTED YOUR SOLUTIONS?
Hannah Unsworth
SharePoint Consultant
BrightStarr
TREND OF 2014
Enterprise Social
Our intranet solution wasn't effective. We had a real business incentive to improve it.
Toby Jones, Internal Communications Manager at RFU
2Wanted to raise
their game
3Uphold & live by
core values
The RFU journey: Their key drivers:
1Rugby World Cup
2015 on home soil
The RFU journey: What were their goals?
Allow people to
collaborate easily
Unify geographically
spread workforce
improve employee
engagement
Improve business
process
Support Rugby World
Cup 2015
FOR STAFF• Connecting people
• Internal comms is now
something that belongs
to everyone
• Good looking and
easy to navigate
• Sharing of best practise
RFU Success
FOR ORGANISATION• Better capacity to tell story
• Underpins RFU’s goal for Modern
Brand & Fine Reputation
• Stronger picture to whole business
• RFU employees notice a positive
change in how RFU communicates
• Working smarter - New ways
of doing things
TREND OF 2014
Mobile
In the case of Abt Associates we had to ensure the functionality within AGI met up with the ease of access that a responsive, mobile friendly design would offer.
Glen Chambers, SVP Operations At BrightStarr
2Technology to adapt to their
complex global business
Abt Associates story: Their key drivers
160% of employees
unable to access
intranet
Abt Associates story: Project objectives
Give staff access to
resources so they can
continue to develop
and grow
Enable staff to easily
connect to share ideas
and knowledge
Make it easy for staff to
do their work from
anywhere
12,700 employees
now with access to
intranet
functionality using
responsive design
2Breathes life
into project
collaboration
3Employees
working smarter,
drawing on skills &
expertise at their
disposal
4An Intranet that
reflects their
brand and
achievements
SESSION 4WHAT’S HOT FOR ENTERPRISE IN 2015?
Sam Hassani
Principal Consultant (MCM)
BrightStarr
PREDICTION 1:
The weaving
together of
disparate Apps
Yammer
wins!
Skype
surfaced
Delve is
just the
beginning
PREDICTION 2:
Strengthened
mobile security
Mobile first world…
Apply security policies
and device settings
Preserve Office 365
productivity experience
Rights Management
Services for Office Apps
Mobile Device Management (MDM) in Office 365?
PREDICTION 3:
What’s next for SharePoint On-premises?
Next version of SharePoint on-premises
due mid-late 2015
We’re expecting a subset of Office 365 capabilities but…
Video
Portal
Unlimited Storage
(OneDrive
for Business and
Team Sites)
We’re committed to another on-premises release of
SharePoint. We recognize that many of our SharePoint
customers will continue to have large on-premises
deployments for many years, but we’re investing to help
customers easily manage hybrid environments so that
they can connect their on-premises farms to their in-the-
cloud social network.
Jared Spataro
Today we have Hybrid Search, Business Connectivity Services, Social experiences.
Improved
Hybrid
Experiences
From query
federation to
remote crawling
LIKE ‘Contoso Sales’
LIKE ‘Contoso Sales’
Improved
Hybrid
Experiences
Thank You!
SESSION 5UNILY DEMONSTRATION
HOW TECHNOLOGY IS EVOLVING IN 2015
Melvin Lancelot
Head of Alliances, Pre Sales
BrightStarr
INTRANET IN
A BOX SOLUTION
• Unily is the cloud-based Intranet solution
that unites the very best of Microsoft’s
cloud offering in a single digital
experience
• Rapid deployment with a number of
common intranet apps
• Hosted on Office 365/ SharePoint Online
• Available for Desktop, Tablet and Mobile
What is Unily?
Unily is more
than Software
SharePoint
Services
Success
Platform
What do you
get with Unily?
Demo
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