​Barry's Top Ten SharePoint 2013 Features

 
     
  1. #1-Enhanced Collaboration

    Office Document co-authoring; Drag and Drop Libraries; Document Previews; Simplified Document Sharing; and improved team sites simplifies everyday team collaboration activity.

    #2-Social Engagement

    Follow People, Documents, Sites or HashTags; Engage in discussions threads/Q&A's with your colleagues; Capture Community Feedback; Reward the Top Contributors and most importantly - be able to re-discover those answers via search.

    #3-Find Experts and the Right Content

    Discover People's expertise and where they are in the Organization through People Search; Discover hidden gems of content whether they are on a file share, SharePoint, Exchange or pretty much anywhere else; Content Refinement and the Hover Panel let you see what the content contains without downloading it first. 

    #4-Doc and Records Management, eDiscovery and Compliance

    Mark Documents as official "Records"; Apply retention policies to any library; and give the lawyers the ability to perform eDiscovery on your SharePoint, Exchange and FileShare content.

    #5-Government Portals

    Intranet, Extranet and Internet - Have all three "zones" managed through a single platform - a Pixel-Perfect Internet site, a partner-centric extranet site with standardized authentication, or a beautiful intranet portal for all internal staff.

    #6-Next Gen Devices

    Support BYOD by using the OOB HTML5/JS/CSS3.0 masterpages to perfectly render your site on a browser/tablet/phone; use device channels to target specific form-factors; or use responsive design to automatically support different devices.

    #7-Business Intelligence, Dashboards and Reporting

    Create visually stunning and interactive dashboards and reports using Excel Services, PowerView, PowerPivot, PerformancePoint and SSRS.

    #8-Organize Projects

    Use the Project Team Site template to manage small teams including team mailbox, team Notebook, and Tasks and Timelines.  Upscale to Microsoft Project when you need to.

    #9-Improve Service Delivery with Apps

    Apps for Office and SharePoint become a new paradigm for delivering interesting functionality to your SharePoint Users -- incorporate maps, calculations, visualizations, or database applications delivered on the platform.

    #10-Better Governance

    Manage Taxonomy; Manage Apps; Manage Discovery and Policy; Control the Provisioning and de-Provisioning of sites through an improved Central Administration. 

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