James Milne

I am very excited to announce after a lot of thought and discussions we are proud to announce the highlights for the Office Productivity track at the SharePoint Community Conference.

The Office Productivity and BI Track have been assembled by hand picking the best speakers in their fields. The focus of this track is to showcase some of the quick wins that can help improve your business productivity by using familiar tools such as Office, Visio and InfoPath. The main philosophy behind the productivity track is how to leverage out of the box features with zero-code solutions. To start the track we kick of our journey into better business productivity stream with a presentation from Debbie Ireland who will set the overall theme of the track by demonstrating how to maximise your productivity with Familiar tools such as Outlook and Word. The focus on email integrated solutions is also echoed by James Fox as he shows us how you can tackle the Email Challenge and assist in Driving User Adoption of SharePoint Solutions. The Office Productivity is takes on a whole new dimension as Alex Pearce shows us how we can unchain our office documents and access them anywhere through a web browser when he answers the burning questions about the When, Why and How of Office Web Apps.

Another key element to improving your Office Productivity is creating electronic forms to automate your business processes and we are proud to welcome Patrick Halstead who will take us on a journey into how to Design forms that flex and how to Create a SharePoint forms factory. Strap yourself in as Patrick shows you have to turbo charge your InfoPath forms development and how you can take InfoPath Forms to the next level. To help support your business processes you can customise the SharePoint ribbon to add your own buttons and tabs. TO show us how easy it is to customize the SharePoint Ribbon we have Penelope Coventry joining us and she will show us how we can tame the SharePoint Ribbon when Penny shows us how to Tie a Yellow Ribbon round SharePoint 2010 : Customization using SPD 2010 and VS2010.

After creating all this rich content within SharePoint we can use Visio Services to visualize rich interactive diagrams. To show us how business users can create and publish rich content into the cloud we will start with Chris Hopkin as he shows us how Visio Services can be used to for Creating a No-Code Visio Services Dashboard using Office 365. We then kick it up a notch with Krishna Mamidpaka as we explore Advanced BI Visualizations using Visio Services.

This is by no means a complete list, but the is just a highlight of what is in store for you when you attend the Office Productivity track at the SharePoint Community Conference.