Three Important Points For Sharepoint 2013 To Learn From Competitors

SharePoint developers’ wonder where SharePoint 2013 will exist in the year 2013, how would it look & function or will it be a better product than its competitors have launched. All these questions can be answered by none other than the Microsoft people with very strict NDAs. After using SharePoint 2010 SharePoint developers expect a little more from Microsoft. Well but what direction Microsoft goes is also a big question. But it doesn’t stop the speculation of SharePoint developers. Let us see 3 important points that SharePoint 2013 should take into consideration from its rival products. These points will give better results for SharePoint customization and development.

1. Better integration with external (social) platforms: While seeing SharePoint 2010 development developers are pulled in data from external systems by using various methods. They can use external lists, custom codes or specific web parts if needed. But looking at world famous social platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, SharePoint 2013 needs to learn from them and can improve the way it talks to other platforms. Twitter is the one who leads in this matter because it integrates into a wide number of other sites and apps including your iPhone. While Facebook is still trying to do its best and looking at its success of making itself the defector authentication method on web. Considering improvement prime area should be SharePoint My Sites. This site has so much more potential and is not exploited that much.
2. Drop box style document management: When we talk of document management system then SharePoint 2010 is best at it. It is core strength of this product. But we have never seen document libraries used consistently by SharePoint developers for mapping to network drives. Thus to get documents into SharePoint is due to its success as DMS. Mapped drives make it easy, but needs sorting out a bit. So we expect some changes in SP2013 with Drop box style apps for whole host of platforms including at least Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. By this style each application would be installed on the appropriate platform and will be connecting for SharePoint Implementation. Of course, user is free to select site and document library as per his wish and those would be created as folders on their file system. Those documents which are dropped into folder will automatically synced to relevant library in SharePoint.
3. Better Integration of emails: Some clients wish to sync their Outlook Inbox with SharePoint library. SharePoint developers can do this by number of ways of doing something close to it but not a perfect output. Thus you will find internal messaging systems in most social platforms including Facebook. They also give their users to give up on email altogether and stay inside Facebook to send the messages. Similar is the case with Huddle which has introduced a new feature by allowing the users of zimbra to connect directly to their site from within their email client. So SP 2013 needs to do similar with Outlook and Exchange. They do have some degree of integration but doesn’t go far enough. So should opt for building a version of Outlook webmail directly into SharePoint 2013. Further should be made a part of mysite and let users to file content directly into libraries and lists.

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