This is the conclusion of a six part series, Robust SharePoint Performance in the Emerging Distributed Enterprise: Turning the Potential for Chaos into the Means for Success, sponsored by Certeon.
Addressing responsiveness for collaboration applications like SharePoint is not an option. Business users have increasingly high expectations and expect IT to deliver. Realizing the benefits of the networked enterprise documented by McKinsey and others is now a competitive necessity and this effort cannot fail because of poor applications performance, especially when it affects so many people.
This potential for chaos will not go away: it will only get worse with the projected rise in SharePoint usage. According to Bill Gates, SharePoint is the fastest-growing server product in Microsoft’s experience, and his goal is to have SharePoint available to all workers in much the same way that Office is the standard personal productivity suite. Microsoft is well on the way to making this happen, currently adding some 20,000 SharePoint users a day. IT departments need to prepare for this pervasive presence by making SharePoint WAN-worthy, or they will face a massive user revolt.
To exacerbate the situation, the dramatic rise of mobile communication for collaboration, as noted by Forrester and others, and the resultant further increase in WAN traffic, can make matters even worse for SharePoint performance. For example, Cisco forecasts that in the next five years, IP traffic generated by Wi-Fi and mobile devices will increase from 45% to 61%, exceeding wired IP-generated traffic. It is imperative to address and fix the SharePoint WAN performance issues now, to help make users more productive and thereby positively impact the enterprise top and bottom lines.
This concludes my six part series on Robust SharePoint Performance in the Emerging Distributed Enterprise: Turning the Potential for Chaos into the Means for Success. If you want to start at the beginning go to the first post, Overcoming the Potential for Chaos in WAN Sharepoint Deployments.
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Posted by: Red | October 04, 2012 at 02:17 AM