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Greater functionality: SharePoint 2010
offers improved functionality for connecting information workers to formerly
siloed processes.
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Business
integration: Business Connectivity Services (BCS), along with
SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio 2010, opens the door for many line-of-business
(LOB) connectivity solutions.
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Increases
productivity: A revamped BCS helps with a category of ad
hoc processes that can reduce non-value-added activity, such as reporting and
exception management.
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Social computing: Team sites can
maintain real-time connections to an LOB application and link to participants'
"My Site," where social tools can provide context and help search for relevant
information.
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Business technology
enabled: Work can be done by business users within the SharePoint
Designer 2010 and imported within Visual Studio 2010.
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Business
process analysis: Visio diagrams can now be published to
SharePoint with the author's connection remaining active.
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Modeling
capabilities: SharePoint Designer is improved and more
helpful to business users and designers to customize lists, change layouts and
create simple workflows.
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Content
types and taxonomies: The top-down taxonomy and bottom-up social
tagging combine to help improve search, navigation and people connections.
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Better
scale:
Support of larger lists for folders and libraries drew the loudest applause
during the keynote.
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Improved
governance: Records management features in SharePoint 2010 build on
more scalable storage and enterprise metadata support.
Craig Le
Clair is a principal analyst at Forrester Research, where he serves business
process and applications professionals. For more information on Forrester's offerings,
please visit www.forrester.com/documentbpa.
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