Well it is day one of the SharePoint 2009 Conference, with a theme of Connect, Collaborate, SharePoint.
We have had the keynote and the take away from this session is how much SharePoint is a key part of Microsoft’s strategy going forward.
Steve Ballmer was loud but quite reserved I thought. He was definitely looking to position SharePoint as the platform of the future.
Some of the key advancements in the platform, such as:
SharePoint On Premise or in the Cloud – You choose and deploy. You can have it here or there or in both places at once, connected together.
Metadata management that finally makes sense -Create and manage metadata that can be then used across farms, web apps and down into the site collections.
Business Connectivity Services – This replaces or extends on the Business Data Catalogue and is now two way updating
SharePoint Workspaces – This allows you to take SharePoint and connected business data offline. A very cool feature and one that will allow you to create some powerful composite applications.
Overall a good start to the Conference and there is over 7,400 people attending. Even just being 1/3rd back from the front the people on stage were very small. It was good to have the big, big screens. More later it is now session time ….
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