All about Developer Days

FEBRUARY 25, 2015 IN THE COMMUNITY Developer Days IN THE NEWS   K2 Raises Over $100 Million to Accelerate Growth SPTECHCON UPDATE LINKAPALOOZA SHAREPOINTERS Office 365 readiness: Know your organization’s collaborative maturity FROM THE WEB

IN THE COMMUNITY Developer Days By David Rubinstein I’m putting the finishing touches on the program for SPTechCon Developer Days, a three-day conference on June 24-26 designed to give SharePoint and Office 365 developers the tools and skills they need to enhance the value of their organizations’ SharePoint implementations. There are three tracks: Office 365, On-premises, and what we’re calling “hybrid”—sessions that would be of value to developers working on any of Microsoft’s collaboration platforms... READ MORE »

PLATINUM SPONSOR Microsoft to Keynote SharePoint Developer Days This three-day event will offer developers of all skill levels more than 40 classes, tutorials, breakouts, keynotes and general sessions to improve your abilities in customizing and creating business-value applications in SharePoint and Office 365. Learn how to navigate the languages and techniques used in Web application development for Office 365, as well as understanding Microsoft’s new application model introduced with SharePoint 2013. The conference will offer deep technical content for both developers working with on-premises SharePoint Server 2013, and for developers working in Office 365. Microsoft’s Chris Johnson will keynote the event, and the sessions will be taught by the brightest minds in SharePoint and Office 365, including many Microsoft MVPs and other experts. Register by March 6 for just $1,095 and save $500. » Register now!

IN THE NEWS K2 Raises Over $100 Million to Accelerate Growth By SPTechCon Newswire K2, an industry leader in business application platforms and solutions, announced it has agreed to accept a strategic investment from Francisco Partners, a leading global private equity firm focused on the technology sector, to support investment in K2’s go-to-market initiatives and product innovation. The funding will enable K2 to further its vision of empowering its customers to optimize their business processes and seamlessly build and run their own unique business applications on premises and in the cloud. The transaction is expected to close during the first quarter of 2015... READ MORE »

GOLD SPONSOR Printing, Scanning and Filing Has Never Been This Easy! – Complimentary Webinar See in action how you can convert to .PDF and print any requested items in SharePoint (list items, wiki pages, InfoPath web forms, documents and attachments, publishing pages, etc.). All done in a single click! -Scan papers into single or multiple documents, define property-values and upload the scanned documents to SharePoint libraries in a single operation! -Quickly and effortlessly zip, download and send multiple documents in one-shot! Join KWizCom's Manager of Customer Support, Anthony Pham, for the product training session who will demonstrate how to configure and utilize KWizCom's Print, Scan and File Bulk Zip features. » REGISTER NOW FOR THURSDAY Feb. 26th (11 am EST)

SPTECHCON UPDATE

By Katie Serignese, Conference Program Manager Missed SPTechCon Austin? Check out these videos and see why you need to be at our very first SPTechCon Developer Days and SPTechCon Boston! SPTechCon Austin 2015 Overview SPTechCon Austin Highlights SPTechCon Austin Keynote with Microsoft's Arpan Shah Interview with Ayman Husain, Amazon's Keynoter at SPTechCon Austin

SILVER SPONSOR SharePoint and Incentive - Complete Integration for Effective Collaboration Set up your 45-day free trial Incentive’s full integration with SharePoint eliminates “platform fatigue,” a time-consuming process of tracking information across more tools than anyone could possibly keep track of. • No mirrors, no copies, no imports. All SharePoint files and folders are indexed and searchable as if they were native Incentive items. • Natively and transparently share, comment, and collaborate directly with your SharePoint content. • And more... » Learn more!

LINKAPALOOZA The Linker is fed up with his Keurig. His lovely grandmother, were she still alive today, would use the term “pishach” to describe the machine’s output (The Linker wouldn’t insult coffee by calling that output by the same name). But you can count on the full-bodied taste and aroma of these links! Drink up! SharePoint lover? Hater? Skeptic? Twenty data points you need to know... Keeping SharePoint in check with information governance... Microsoft trivia and SharePoint Search strategy slides... Public websites in SharePoint Online and on-premises... The February Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2013... SharePoint testing for process owners: First steps... Not-so-random YouTube entry: Your brain on coffee

BRONZE SPONSOR Improve Your SharePoint and Office 365 Skills This Summer in Boston Microsoft has announced SharePoint 2016 and it’s clear that there will be plenty of on-premises and hybrid options for your SharePoint installation, to say nothing of Office 365. Which direction makes the most sense for you and your organization? Let the Microsoft MVPs at SPTechCon help you read the tea leaves! SPTechCon in Boston will be full of all the great classes and tutorials from seasoned MVPs and Microsoft expert speakers you have come to expect. Plus, whatever new directions Microsoft reveals at their Ignite Conference will be understood and interpreted by our MVP experts for you August 24-27. » Register by March 20 and save $600 on the full conference price

SHAREPOINTERS Office 365 readiness: Know your organization’s collaborative maturity By Marc Anderson A few weeks ago at SPTechCon in Austin, I was on the expert panel discussing “SharePoint at the Crossroads.” Of course, a lot of the talk was about Office 365 and whether it was right for everyone, or if hybrid was the right thing for everyone, or what “right” even might look like, and so on. At one point, my friend and esteemed colleague Dan Holme said something about organizations at a certain level of maturity. I broke in, saying “I’m older than you, Dan, so...” For some reason, many people got a kick out of that. I wish I could find some of the tweets... READ MORE »

FROM THE WEB SPTechCon Sponsor Interview: Stephen Moore | Kapow FSPTechCon Sponsor Interview: Ayman Husain | Amazon Keynote Speaker How does your SharePoint perform? Walking the app model tightrope: An ISV’s perspective Microsoft debuts new cloud partner program and Office iOS integrations SPTechCon Austin 2015 Wrap-Up SharePoint Server 2016 Steps to create your own SharePoint search application Rickard Hansson Talks Social Project Management Operations and the ongoing plan