Following are the advantages of SharePoint 2013 over SharePoint 2010 :
Microsoft purchased the FAST search technology for $1.2 billion in 2008, allowing it to add an industry-leading search solution to the Microsoft suite. However, due to the timing of the purchase in SharePoint’s product development cycle, FAST could not be integrated into SharePoint 2010. FAST is now fully integrated into the SharePoint 2013 product. With these new enhancements, Gartner analysts now consider Microsoft a leader in enterprise search.
Here are some more details on benefits of the improved search functionality, as well as its relevance to our clients.
Continuous Crawl: There has been a major upgrade to the crawling and indexing components in SharePoint Search. Content can now be indexed as frequently as every few minutes.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Frequent crawling of large amounts of content was not possible with SharePoint 2010.
Why This Is Important: Files added into SharePoint can be found almost immediately by users. Search can also be used more efficiently in search-driven pages and applications, since new content will immediately appear on the page.
Query Conditions/ Rules Engine: This powerful feature allows your web pages to dynamically feature content most relevant for each user. At a high level, a new query engine has been added to search, which allows for rules to be applied and results displayed to be reordered based on specific conditions.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: This feature was not available in SharePoint 2010.
Why This Is Important: You now have greater control over how the results are sorted and displayed based on user attributes. This flexibility is a huge advantage for SharePoint 2013 over SharePoint 2010. It gives you flexibility to adapt the search as you learn more about your users and expand your solutions.
Search-Driven Page Design: Another powerful feature that allows your web pages to dynamically feature the most user-relevant content, while allowing the content (for example, project-related documents) to be stored in a central repository.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Although we could accomplish this in SharePoint 2010, new web parts and improvements in SharePoint 2013 make this process much more efficient and practical.
Why This Is Important: Greatly improve content management efficiency by storing and reusing a large number of files from centralize repositories vs. scattering them across multiple libraries on your SharePoint solution. Leverage the granular control in the SharePoint 2013 search engine to surface the most relevant files anywhere on your sites.
Query Actions: These new features now allow you to control how the search results are presented. You can now specify which types of records in your search results will be displayed with custom HTML.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Previously there was not an efficient way to customize how search results were presented.
Why This Is Important: This feature gives you multiple options for visually promoting or drawing attention to files presented on the basis of user attributes. This capability can be used in search results and also with search-driven pages.
Intranet-Related Search Advantages
In addition to the search enhancements mentioned above, the following improvements will also be important to your Intranet users.
File Preview: From the search results page, users can preview Microsoft Office files in search results by simply hovering over them. Search results are sorted and optimized based on users clicks. The ability to preview files before opening translates into more accurate search results for the end users, as the result set is automatically tuned.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: This feature was not available in SharePoint 2010.
Why This Is Important: This capability will make your search results more relevant as well as important files easier to find. It also makes browsing through search results much simpler when you’re looking for the right file.
Deep Links: In SharePoint 2013, chapters and major sections from a file are shown with the results. You can easily jump to specific sections without needing to download the file and then search for the relevant content.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: In previous versions of SharePoint, the file content is indexed but users need to download the entire file in order to locate the relevant content within it.
Why This Is Important: If you have large documents or PowerPoint files, this ability cuts down on a significant amount of time you spend searching for content.
5. oData support for Business Connectivity Services
11. New Licensing Model
12 Improved Web Content Usability
Improvements in the WYSIWYG: You can copy content directly from Word and paste it into the SharePoint text editor. The text will be displayed in the site’s defined style, meaning less editing is required. This is a big time saver (and solves one of the biggest requests/complaints we received from clients in the past).
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: There are some significant improvements in how the HTML is scripted when using the WYSIWYG in SharePoint 2013.
Why This Is Important: Editing web pages and content is easier and more efficient.
Friendly URLS: This feature basically gives a user-friendly URL for SharePoint pages, versus the very long (and unappealing) URL in SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: In SharePoint 2010, this was a custom feature that needed to be implemented.
Why This Is Important: This improvement allows you to send a simple, friendly page URL to customers and other key users.
Flexible Branding: Branding and page design can now be done through non-SharePoint tools, such as Adobe Dreamweaver and other third-party HTML editing tools.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: This feature was not available in previous versions.
Why This Is Important: A web designer without SharePoint experience can now use their favorite design tool to change the look and feel on your Intranet or corporate website.
Video Embedding: Videos can now be embedded natively in a page. The file can be stored in a third-party video hosting solution such as Vimeo or, in some cases, inside SharePoint.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Easily embedding video from third-party hosting solutions was a custom web part that DEG formerly created for SharePoint. It is now available natively.
Why This Is Important: This allows an easy and efficient way to add video to your sites.
13 Digital Asset Management
Companies with a large volume of images, videos, and other content find it critical to have a robust and efficient way to organize their assets. SharePoint 2013 now includes more features and scalability that allows SharePoint to be used as your DAM system.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: DAM features in SharePoint 2010 were limited.
Why This Is Important: This feature allows for images to be efficiently stored in one central repository and reused on pages throughout the site.
14 Other Significant Features in SharePoint 2013
SkyDrive
Users can now share documents and files from a personal SkyDrive or keep them secured for their personal use. SkyDrive files can still be indexed and located through search if they have been shared to that user.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: This feature was not available in previous versions.
Why This Is Important: This allows for very easy file collaboration without the user needing to email or store the file inside a SharePoint document library.
More Robust Workflow Platforms
This new platform allows for more no-code functionality and is much more scalable than SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: The new platform should allow for more flexibility and better performance than experienced with SharePoint 2010. SharePoint Workflow now includes much more scalable options with more flexibility.
Why This Is Important: Companies can expand their workflow capabilities, especially around higher volume workflow with automation.
Better Site Performance
Because of Microsoft’s focus on its cloud version of SharePoint, the new version of on-premise and SharePoint online has been optimized for faster load times and better overall performance.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Although SharePoint 2010 was not exactly slow, the new load times have been optimized significantly.
Why This Is Important: Quicker page loads and site responsiveness improves overall user experience.
If you’d like to know more about our highly customized SharePoint solutions or our Fuse Portal Solution, let’s have a conversation.
1. Apps for SharePoint
Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces of functionality that extend the capabilities of a SharePoint website. You can use HTML, CSS, JavaScript and protocols like the Open Data protocol (OData), and OAuth to communicate with SharePoint using Apps. The app is an isolated safe container so you are free to make client site calls using JavaScript. A great advantage of the app model is that custom code runs on a separate server – it guarantees the farm to be unbothered by any performance problems created by custom apps.
2. Office Web apps are free (and work on mobile devices)Office Web apps are free (no office client needed) for both internal and external users with the exception that internal users require an Office 2013 license (standard or pro) to edit documents. Not only do extranet user get free Office web apps, they don’t need CALs either (on-premise farms have no limit for external users).
Also to note, Office Web apps now work on mobile devices like the iPad.
3. Improved workflow
With SharePoint 2013, the old SharePoint 2010 engine is maintained as-is but a new add-on called “Workflow Manager” can be downloaded and installed separately. Workflow Manager can run on its own server and has its own respective databases for the manager itself and the Service Bus.
SharePoint 2010 Architecture SharePoint 2013 Architecture
Figure 1: SharePoint 2010 Workflow vs. 2013 Architectural Changes
Creating workflows for SharePoint 2013 has never been easier thanks to the addition of Task Process Designer canvas (think Nintex) that uses a Visio 2013 add-in within SharePoint Designer 2013.
Figure 2: Task Process Designer canvas
4. Search (integrated FAST)
For 2013, Microsoft has now created ‘SharePoint Search’ that encompasses the FAST features (mentioned above) built into the cost of SP server. One welcome change to Search is the addition of type-ahead functionality as well the ability to show your most recent personal searches.
Microsoft purchased the FAST search technology for $1.2 billion in 2008, allowing it to add an industry-leading search solution to the Microsoft suite. However, due to the timing of the purchase in SharePoint’s product development cycle, FAST could not be integrated into SharePoint 2010. FAST is now fully integrated into the SharePoint 2013 product. With these new enhancements, Gartner analysts now consider Microsoft a leader in enterprise search.
Here are some more details on benefits of the improved search functionality, as well as its relevance to our clients.
Continuous Crawl: There has been a major upgrade to the crawling and indexing components in SharePoint Search. Content can now be indexed as frequently as every few minutes.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Frequent crawling of large amounts of content was not possible with SharePoint 2010.
Why This Is Important: Files added into SharePoint can be found almost immediately by users. Search can also be used more efficiently in search-driven pages and applications, since new content will immediately appear on the page.
Query Conditions/ Rules Engine: This powerful feature allows your web pages to dynamically feature content most relevant for each user. At a high level, a new query engine has been added to search, which allows for rules to be applied and results displayed to be reordered based on specific conditions.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: This feature was not available in SharePoint 2010.
Why This Is Important: You now have greater control over how the results are sorted and displayed based on user attributes. This flexibility is a huge advantage for SharePoint 2013 over SharePoint 2010. It gives you flexibility to adapt the search as you learn more about your users and expand your solutions.
Search-Driven Page Design: Another powerful feature that allows your web pages to dynamically feature the most user-relevant content, while allowing the content (for example, project-related documents) to be stored in a central repository.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Although we could accomplish this in SharePoint 2010, new web parts and improvements in SharePoint 2013 make this process much more efficient and practical.
Why This Is Important: Greatly improve content management efficiency by storing and reusing a large number of files from centralize repositories vs. scattering them across multiple libraries on your SharePoint solution. Leverage the granular control in the SharePoint 2013 search engine to surface the most relevant files anywhere on your sites.
Query Actions: These new features now allow you to control how the search results are presented. You can now specify which types of records in your search results will be displayed with custom HTML.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Previously there was not an efficient way to customize how search results were presented.
Why This Is Important: This feature gives you multiple options for visually promoting or drawing attention to files presented on the basis of user attributes. This capability can be used in search results and also with search-driven pages.
Intranet-Related Search Advantages
In addition to the search enhancements mentioned above, the following improvements will also be important to your Intranet users.
File Preview: From the search results page, users can preview Microsoft Office files in search results by simply hovering over them. Search results are sorted and optimized based on users clicks. The ability to preview files before opening translates into more accurate search results for the end users, as the result set is automatically tuned.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: This feature was not available in SharePoint 2010.
Why This Is Important: This capability will make your search results more relevant as well as important files easier to find. It also makes browsing through search results much simpler when you’re looking for the right file.
Deep Links: In SharePoint 2013, chapters and major sections from a file are shown with the results. You can easily jump to specific sections without needing to download the file and then search for the relevant content.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: In previous versions of SharePoint, the file content is indexed but users need to download the entire file in order to locate the relevant content within it.
Why This Is Important: If you have large documents or PowerPoint files, this ability cuts down on a significant amount of time you spend searching for content.
5. oData support for Business Connectivity Services
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2013 (and in 2010 as well) lets users connect and interface with data external to SharePoint. BCS has added oData Support. Up until now, SharePoint could always serve up list data because it was an oData provider. SharePoint can now connect to external sources using oData as well.
6. Yammer integration
With each release of SharePoint, comes new social features and enhancements. As you already probably know, Microsoft bought Yammer last year (www.yammer.com) and recently Microsoft released the Yammer integration roadmap. Yammer integration will being this summer (2013) ultimately replacing SharePoint Newsfeed entirely over the next year via 90-day updates.
7. Community Portal Template
SharePoint Server 2013 expands on the discussion list concept by introducing a new site template named Community Site (Figure 3) which is completely focused on conversations. What makes this site unique is that users can access the site and observe conversations – then “join” a community when they want to post. Other notable items of interest regarding this new site template;
- Becoming a member means you are automatically “following” the community site.
- Member photos show up next to all posts.
- “Gamification” options to encourage participation –points, badges, and a “top contributors” leaderboard.
- Designated users can be “gifted” a badge –to identify someone as an “Expert” or “Thought Leader” so that discussion participants can easily distinguish contributions.
- Ability to categorize conversations by topic with an image –to create a welcoming environment and encourage interaction.
Figure 3 (Community Site Example)
8. Big data support
Support for big data has been added. SharePoint 2013 allows for much larger data sets thanks to updated integrated PowerPivot technology. Built on the Vertipaq engine, large data sets can be compressed and filter while in memory on the server, allowing operations on the data occur very fast.
The Power View data modeling and visualization engine for Excel has also be updated. User can leverage Power View with large data sets to create visualizations with charts, graphs, runtime data filtering, and slicers.
9. Improved Publishing Capabilities via Cross-Site Publishing SharePoint Server 2013 includes cross-site publishing for web content management that enhance the authoring and publishing processes of your organization. Cross-site publishing lets you store and maintain content in one or more authoring site collections, and display this content in one or more publishing site collections. When you change the content in an authoring site collection, those changes are displayed on all site collections that are reusing this content
10. Improved Design CapabilitiesSharePoint Server 2013 includes new and improved features for designing your sites and laying out content.
- Site owners and designers can now customize the global and current navigation menus by dragging and dropping menu items directly on the page.
- You can now brand sites using external tools like Dreamweaver.
- SharePoint Server 2013 now supports targeting different devices such as smartphones, tablets, and set-top boxes.
11. New Licensing Model
12 Improved Web Content Usability
Improvements in the WYSIWYG: You can copy content directly from Word and paste it into the SharePoint text editor. The text will be displayed in the site’s defined style, meaning less editing is required. This is a big time saver (and solves one of the biggest requests/complaints we received from clients in the past).
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: There are some significant improvements in how the HTML is scripted when using the WYSIWYG in SharePoint 2013.
Why This Is Important: Editing web pages and content is easier and more efficient.
Friendly URLS: This feature basically gives a user-friendly URL for SharePoint pages, versus the very long (and unappealing) URL in SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: In SharePoint 2010, this was a custom feature that needed to be implemented.
Why This Is Important: This improvement allows you to send a simple, friendly page URL to customers and other key users.
Flexible Branding: Branding and page design can now be done through non-SharePoint tools, such as Adobe Dreamweaver and other third-party HTML editing tools.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: This feature was not available in previous versions.
Why This Is Important: A web designer without SharePoint experience can now use their favorite design tool to change the look and feel on your Intranet or corporate website.
Video Embedding: Videos can now be embedded natively in a page. The file can be stored in a third-party video hosting solution such as Vimeo or, in some cases, inside SharePoint.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Easily embedding video from third-party hosting solutions was a custom web part that DEG formerly created for SharePoint. It is now available natively.
Why This Is Important: This allows an easy and efficient way to add video to your sites.
13 Digital Asset Management
Companies with a large volume of images, videos, and other content find it critical to have a robust and efficient way to organize their assets. SharePoint 2013 now includes more features and scalability that allows SharePoint to be used as your DAM system.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: DAM features in SharePoint 2010 were limited.
Why This Is Important: This feature allows for images to be efficiently stored in one central repository and reused on pages throughout the site.
14 Other Significant Features in SharePoint 2013
SkyDrive
Users can now share documents and files from a personal SkyDrive or keep them secured for their personal use. SkyDrive files can still be indexed and located through search if they have been shared to that user.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: This feature was not available in previous versions.
Why This Is Important: This allows for very easy file collaboration without the user needing to email or store the file inside a SharePoint document library.
More Robust Workflow Platforms
This new platform allows for more no-code functionality and is much more scalable than SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: The new platform should allow for more flexibility and better performance than experienced with SharePoint 2010. SharePoint Workflow now includes much more scalable options with more flexibility.
Why This Is Important: Companies can expand their workflow capabilities, especially around higher volume workflow with automation.
Better Site Performance
Because of Microsoft’s focus on its cloud version of SharePoint, the new version of on-premise and SharePoint online has been optimized for faster load times and better overall performance.
SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013: Although SharePoint 2010 was not exactly slow, the new load times have been optimized significantly.
Why This Is Important: Quicker page loads and site responsiveness improves overall user experience.
If you’d like to know more about our highly customized SharePoint solutions or our Fuse Portal Solution, let’s have a conversation.
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