Steve Fox, senior evangelism manager in Microsoft's Developer and Platform Group, opened the technical conference at SPTechCon with a standing-room-only keynote talk about SharePoint and The Cloud. Three key elements for "extending the boundaries" of collaboration and communication are Microsoft's newly announced Office 365 (the new BPOS), integration with Azure (Microsoft's cloud) and SharePoint Online. Fox talked about how consumer cloud services such as Bing, Hotmail, Windows Live and integrations with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn can be used with commercial cloud services such as Azure, SQL Azure, Office 365, Exchange Online, Dynamics CRM Online, and Lync (formerly Office Communications Server) Online, to create dynamic experiences for users. He gave the example of a real estate agent using Bing maps to give street-level views of neighborhoods, virtual tours of the homes, then using e-mail to send a client the listing, and using Azure and Office services to auto-generate documents for mortgage calculations, seller agreements, and more. Those documents can then be uploaded into SharePoint for back-end management, including putting them into workflows and storing them in libraries.
Fox also pointed attendees to a site that uses Silverlight Pivot technology to offer up images of Internet sites using SharePoint. The image gallery can be pivoted by country, industry or other pre-defined settings to zoom in on those most relevant to the viewer.
He noted that by 2012, 80 percent of Fortune 1000 businesses will have a position in the cloud, and that 20 percent of all businesses will own no IT of their own. They'll be deployed in the cloud.
-- David
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