Transcript Case Study - Venable LLP

Silverlight and SharePoint – Venable LLP
Darrin Dyson
Director of Development and Systems Integration
Venable LLP
June 16, 2011
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agenda
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Brief overview of our firm and our current
environment
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Silverlight and SharePoint Overview
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Using Silverlight and SharePoint Together
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Demo
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Q&A
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our law firm
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AM LAW 100
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7 Offices all located in the US
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548 attorneys
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600 support staff
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65+ it staff
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our environment
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Windows XP
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Office 2003
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OpenText DM 5.1.0.5 (5.3 Server)
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MOSS 2007/SharePoint 2011
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Workshare Professional
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pdfConverter
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Over 50 additional apps
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data, data everywhere…
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SharePoint Environment
SharePoint 2007
Farm
SharePoint is
Running in Hybrid
Mode
SharePoint 2010
Farm
Firm Portal
3 Site Collections
Legacy Applications
Custom ASP.NET
Handshake Web Parts
Copy of Firm Portal (Conversion Testing)
New Application Development
Silverlight
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business drivers
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Dynamic and richer content
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Minimize clicks
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Targeted information and data based on profile
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Update of legacy applications
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New tools to promote business automation
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Integration with new applications and back end
systems
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Silverlight
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Natural platform for Line of Business applications
– RIA Services
– WCF
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Extremely rich user interfaces
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.NET Framework
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3rd Party controls and toolkits
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Wide spread community support
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SharePoint 2011
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Full Visual Studio Support
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Web Services (listdata.svc, legacy .asmx web
services)
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Client Object Model
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Server Object Model
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LINQ to SharePoint
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Event Receivers
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Timer Jobs
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SharePoint Designer
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Silverlight and SharePoint with Visual
Studio
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Full lifecycle development from Visual Studio
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SilverLight Web Part
– Library Deployment
– Solution deployment
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Extensions
– SPMetal
– BDC
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current projects
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revamp of intranet portal
– Reconstitute html based web parts from
Handshake
– Collapse web pages into Silverlight apps or
web parts
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rebuild of current client applications
– Project Mainstay
• Replace “DocHub”
• Replace “eRoom”
– Engagement Letters
• Replace “index cards” and legacy access
database
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current projects ctd.
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Experience Manager
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T & E Docket
– Handles creation of tasks and notifications to
attorneys
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News Aggregation Tool
– Submission and Publication of firm events,
announcements, news (internal/external)
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IT Focused
– Change System
– Help Desk Tool
– MAC, UMI
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next
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Revamp intranet portal to leverage Silverlight
– Eye towards Silverlight 5
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Finish SharePoint 2011 rollout
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Implement dashboards for executives, division
managers and practice group leaders
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Records and DMS Engagements
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Engage with business analyst to leverage K2
BlackPearl investment
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summary
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Develop a strategy that leverages the firms
strategic plan
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It’s about the data
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Open your mind and lose your inhibitions
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Partner with technology companies that share
your vision
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Revamp and revise
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theQuestions??
road ahead for
ABC CORPORATION
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