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Abstract

"Office System 2007 – Making Smart Design Choices – Navigating the Office System Extensibility Stack" - Notes from the Field, Microsoft Consulting Services (UK)

Paul Holdaway, Microsoft Consulting Services, UK

Since the launch of the 2007 Office System, developers have never had it so good in their choice of application and tool-set.  However, with so many choices, how does a developer decide what to add to an Information Worker solution design? What informs that decision?  SharePoint sits as the collaborative hub of the Office System – but what is the best interface for the business and for the users? Is it the browser or the desktop applications? Would an Office Business Applications (OBA) implementation suit better?  If the business wants to work offline, is the choice Outlook or Groove – or Access? 
 
The MCS UK team shares their experiences in the Information Worker space, with recent projects and deployments in major UK companies.  The talk will draw ideas and discussion on the strengths and caveats of using different products in a variety of project scenarios, with details on what worked well - and what didn't...

(Warning: the phrase, "It depends..." , may appear more than once during this session.)

A Structured & Repeatable Approach to Building Microsoft Office SharePoint Solutions

Andrew Connell - MVP, author, consultant, Andrew Connell, Inc.

"SharePoint doesn't support source control." "SharePoint doesn't follow good SDL or change control processes." "Developers have to use SharePoint Designer to create Publishing sites." Heard these before? Guess what? All these myths are completely untrue. Many traditional SharePoint projects frequently must follow an organization's change control process, software development lifecycle processes and integration within source control. Not only is it possible to follow all of these common development guidelines in SharePoint, it is a lot easier than you may think. In this session we'll take a look at how this is possible by obtaining a better grasp of the inner workings of the SharePoint architecture such as Features, customized and uncustomized files and solutions. Finally you will learn some tips and tricks in how to adopt this process in your development team.

Building High Performance Solutions on MIcrosoft Office Server 2007

Andrew Connell - MVP, author, consultant, Andrew Connell, Inc.

Performance should be one of the top areas of focus on everyone's mind when embarking on a Internet facing Microsoft Office Server 2007 site. In this session we'll look at the built-in caching capabilities added to the latest release of the SharePoint platform, including disk-based and page output caching. In addition we'll take a look at various hot-button issues developers should be aware of when developing components for a public site built on MOSS 2007. Topics include object model techniques, how to properly manage memory to avoid the dreaded OutOfMemory exception, key sizing numbers to keep in mind when architecting your implementation and minimizing the page payload to speed up those page load times. After this session, you'll be armed with the power to create high performance and scalable solutions in MOSS 2007.
 

Connecting back end iSeries, AS/400 and IBM mainframes to Office

Marcus Dee, President, looksoftware; Nick Hampson, Product Specialist, looksoftware UK

Overview: This session takes a practical look at how IBM based Line of Business applications can be connected to  Office 2007.
Examples of connecting back-end  ERP applications like Oracle World  and custom RPG and COBOL applications to Outlook, Excel and Word will be demonstrated. Techniques to connect back-end monolithic applications to Office products as  UI components and web services will be discussed and demonstrated and will include. .. 
• Improving host application's User Experience with Outlook and Excel
• Streamlining workflow by integrating back-end processes with Office 2007.
• Component level access to legacy applications from Office 2007

MOSS Interoperability with SAP – "Connecting LOB Platforms to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to Drive Business Value"

Drew Naukam, VP, Microsoft Strategic Service Line, and Ryan Clay and Sean Jones, Enterprise Architects, Hitachi Consulting

This presentation and demo will show the audience how to build composite applications in MOSS that require bi-directional interaction with SAP data.  The presentation includes demos of solutions developed for Ticketmaster and Tyson Foods, and discuss the business scenarios that drove each project. 

Inside Microsoft – How Microsoft IT used Excel Services to Create an Office Business Application that Supports Microsoft's Top Executives

Sergei Gundorov, Senior Software Developer, Microsoft and Mike Reese, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Learn how Microsoft IT moved MS Excel 2007 based Executive Reporting UI that supports top level corporate executives decision making process to the web leveraging Excel Services. Find out how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 makes it easy to connect Microsoft SQL 2005 databases and Analysis Services with Excel Web Access. Learn about integration of InfoPath forms with automation and encrypted data connection to collect user inputs for commentary and collaboration. Discover how Office Open XML file format allows developers to manipulate server side workbooks to provide end users with secure scorecard viewing experience in the browser and not sacrifice MS Excel 2007 rich client functionality while meeting the requirement of no client side code install.  

Real World examples and case studies: Building dynamic business applications which integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, InfoPath and SAP.

Dave Marcus, VP of Alliances, K2

This session will include examples of how K2  extended Microsoft products and technologies at more than 1500 companies in 45 countries helping customers to address real-world business challenges at companies including: Del Monte, Eidos (creator of Tomb Raider – Lara Croft), and Pfizer.

Leveraging Internet Explorer, Visio, SharePoint, and Visual Studio, K2 blackpearl facilitates collaborative application assembly. This session will further discuss automation of business processes and creating composite applications collaboratively between IT and the business units. 
 
Using visual tooling and out-of-box integration with Microsoft technologies such as BizTalk, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Office, the K2 platform is built and runs on .NET 3.0, demonstrating the power of WF to deliver comprehensive solutions which span line of business systems.

Building a next Generation Travel Booking Portal using Microsoft services

Mehul Shah, Solutions Architect, BLUE STAR INFOTECH

This sample Travel Booking Portal for a Travel Tour Operator will demonstrate how various services can be consumed within SharePoint environment. User Interface will be a Silverlight web part. When the user enters his travel origin and destination, it will consume Microsoft Virtual Earth services to draw the map and plot various route options. It will then consume Microsoft Live Services to help the user with directions, knowing areas of interest at the destination etc to enhance the travel planning and booking experience. For travel reservation, it will consume services exposed by BizTalk server. BizTalk server is used to abstract out connections to various reservations services provided by either any of the GDS's (Global Distribution System like Worldspan, Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre) or invidual suppliers like airlines, hotels etc.
This will be SharePoint based portal levaraging:
    SharePoint Content Management System - allowing Tour Operators to update their tour products catalogues from time-to-time
    SharePoint portal features - like User Management, Personalization, Surveys etc
    SharePoint Web 2.0 features - like Blogs, Wikis to build user community

Office Business Applications SharePoint and Dynamics - case studies

TBD - Anthony Cross working with John Graham

Dynamics, Office Development integration case studies (actively in progress)

Case Study - Accelerating Development of SharePoint 2007 Solutions: Building a case management solution using the Microsoft Office SharePoint platform

Dan Barkley, Solutions Architect, Open Text; Paul Jenson, Solutions Developer, Open Text

Learn how Open Text worked with customer requirements to develop an extensions toolkit for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.  Using the example of a Legal Information Management solution, Open Text created a packaged framework to extend upon the  SharePoint development platform for easier and more rapid solutions development.    In this technical presentation, Open Text will discuss how to deeply integrate and extend SharePoint to facilitate the SharePoint centric management of content with central classification and long term storage.  Open Text will demonstrate a series of key features such as; how to create a solution with automatic configuration and deployment of a large number of SharePoint sites for a Case Management scenario, managing inheritance, unique document numbering and extending the security model.  Extending those capabilities to Microsoft Office, Open Text will discuss its strategy for implementing SharePoint centric solutions within additional Office Applications  such as Outlook, Explorer and Microsoft Word.