Twelve SharePoint predictions for 2012

By David Rubinstein

December 5, 2011 — (Page 1 of 3)
It’s the time of year during which the crystal balls are broken out and folks try to see into the future to predict what in the world might happen in the coming year (aside from the world itself coming to an end!). I recently had a chance to chat with Chris McNulty, a longtime friend of the SPTech* family who’s now chief SharePoint evangelist at Quest Software, and he gave us his 12 predictions of what the 2012 landscape for SharePoint will look like.

1) Native social networking will not see universal adoption. On-premise adoption of native SharePoint social functionality will occur only at the pilot level or in self-selecting groups, McNulty expected. In SharePoint, social capabilities are tied to the product life cycle, while people have come to expect newer features such as hash-tagging and targeting, he said. While third parties come to market with more powerful social solutions, he does not see universal uptake.

2) Social networking in the cloud will be similarly constrained. This, McNulty said, is due to a lack of clear standards for interoperability between social networks in the cloud. So, while some organizations might dabble in Office 365 and try to tie in to existing social networks, this is all still too immature to see much traction in 2012, he predicted.

3) SharePoint will become personal. Expect users to demand to be able to manage their content at a personal level, beyond the site level, McNulty said. He predicted personal content management capabilities, with a personalized view of all content a user touches visible in a single view, will extend the promise of SharePoint personalization.

4) Cloud awareness will increase. The year 2012 will not see the wholesale replacement of customized, on-premise SharePoint sites with cloud solutions, McNulty predicted. Instead, it will be a year of increased awareness of the cloud, as companies work to figure out strategies and timetables for cloud adoption, using some third-party providers or Microsoft Office 365.

5) Security and authentication will become more important. With the rise of the cloud, these issues will need more resources behind them than they did when everything was hosted on premise, McNulty said.

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