Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 Review

We are fresh off the conclusion of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA and it was fantastic! The conference provided us with several insights, but most noteworthy that SharePoint is growing, and growing rapidly! You could see this everywhere, in the amount of attendee turn out (~7,500), the number of sponsors and sessions, the worldwide diversity of attendees, and the amount of social gatherings every night. We knew going into it that because it was a mid-production cycle conference that no major news would probably be announced and that was immediately evident in the keynote remarks regarding how this year’s theme was productivity. This was featured in many of the session topics, whether it was business automation using composite solutions, FAST, or being more efficient with the cloud.
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