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European SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: SharePoint 2013 Mobile Features
Dec 10th
The below list comprises some of the notable, new features Microsoft has developed for SharePoint 2013. This isn’t really a list for any particular type of user; it’s just a general overview of how Microsoft is adding to the feature set. The list is ranked based on my opinion of relevance and value to the organization.
1. Contemporary View
The first feature that will grab everyone’s eye is the new HTML5 view that is best suited for mobile devices. Think of it as a mix between the boring and lifeless classic view from SharePoint 2010 and the new metro look and feel for SharePoint 2013.
What you get is a clean and highly compatible UI that should work on just about any device supporting HTML5. A new site feature handles whether or not mobile devices are automatically routed to this view or not, so it couldn’t be easier to deploy for IT pros.
2. Better Office Web Apps UX with Touch Support on Tablets
Working with Office Web Apps on a mobile device in SharePoint 2010 left a lot to be desired. Editing documents was not really possible on many devices and browsers (without a hack), which left users with the ability to basically view only.
Flash forward three years, and the dominance of information workers working on the go has caused Microsoft to revamp their offerings. Unless you were living under a rock, you should already be familiar with the big push Microsoft is making for the new web-based versions of the popular Office apps.
The new UI sports bigger buttons, gesture support, context menus (rejoice!), support for touch, mouse and keyboard input, and many more cool features. I don’t expect the experience to be any different coupled with SharePoint 2013, so you can test drive the experience now with SkyDrive or Office 365.
3. Push Notification Support for Mobile Applications
Push notifications have become staple features for mobile applications and the devices that support them, so it’s not shocking that Microsoft is now supporting this with SharePoint 2013. This feature requires adoption though from 3rd party developers or internal custom development.
The end result is that your device will be able to receive notifications from SharePoint lists and sites. For instance, a new document is uploaded in a library that you’re following, and the notification service sends your device a notification. Simple, yet necessary for today’s mobile devices.
4. Device Channels
Here’s a gem for site managers and devs. You now have the ability to render content for the appropriate device without having to duplicate the content itself. This functionality lets you serve up the same content with multiple master pages, page layouts and style sheets. If all goes well, you should be able to support most of the mobile devices in your firm with a lot less overhead than with 2010. The current list of compatible mobile browsers is available on the Microsoft Technet site.
5. Geolocation Field Type Support
Although this is another “under the hood” feature of SharePoint 2013, it should have an interesting effect on using SharePoint with mobile devices in the future. Microsoft has added native support to geolocation fields which can be exposed through Visual Studio. By adding a geolocation field to a list, you can embed coordinates, which can then be rendered with Bing Maps. The obvious benefit here is the ability to use your GPS-enabled mobile device to plot your location in a SharePoint list.
6. Support for PerformancePoint & Excel Services Reports on iPads
This is probably the least impressive new feature, because Microsoft only suggests that “certain kinds” of reports will be viewable on mobile devices. Since we don’t have an RTM build yet, I can’t say really what those reports will be. To further limit the exposure of this new feature, it’s apparently only available for iOS 5 iPads. To even further confuse you, Microsoft says on another page that “PerformancePoint dashboards can now be viewed and interacted with on iPad devices using the Safari web browser.” That seems to suggest that all PP dashboards can be viewed in Safari.
Regardless of what functionality actually makes it to RTM and beyond, it’s nice to know that we should be able to start interacting with dashboards, scorecards and maybe even some Excel BI/PowerPivot data on our iPads.
Europe SharePoint Server 2013 Hosting :: Comparison Between SharePoint Excel 2010 with SharePoint Excel 2013
Dec 1st
In this post, I want to show you the different between Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 with Excel Services SharePoint 2013.
SharePoint Excel Services 2012
Excel Services 2012 in Microsoft SharePoint 2012 is a tool that allows users to share data-connected Excel and PowerPivot workbooks to the SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013 site. SharePoint Excel Service s 2012 enables you to publish Excel 2010 workbooks, manage and share them according to your business needs and allow users to render these Excel workbooks in browser.
SharePoint Excel Services 2012 overview
SharePoint 2012 Excel Services are usually used as a business intelligence tool which enables connecting Excel workbooks to external data sources, create reports and them publish these workbooks to a SharePoint document library. If the external data connection is established all the data refreshes while rendering the Excel workbook in a browser and this allows broad sharing of reports. Additionally a bit of companies can provide such great feature as auto-refresh data.
SharePoint Excel Services 2010 features
SharePoint 2010 Excel Services consists of Excel Calculation Services, the Excel Web Access Web Part, and Excel Web Services for programmatic access. They provide the following capabilities for users:
- set the settings for security, load balancing, session management, memory utilization, workbook caches, and external data connections;
- define which document libraries are trusted by Excel Services and store workbooks with their global settings in those locations;
- use an extensive list of trusted data providers and add your own ones to it;
- add own user-defined function assemblies.
Users can take advantage of SharePoint Excel Services 2010 in the following scenarios:
- Users can save Excel 2010 workbooks or PowerPivot workbooks to a SharePoint 2010 document library to give other users browser-based access to the server-calculated version of the Excel workbook. It
s could be possible to sort, filter, expand, or collapse PivotTables, and pass in parameters the Excel-based data. Users dont need to have Microsoft Excel 2010 installed to view the Excel workbook. They will always view the latest version of an Excel workbook, and they can interact with it in a browser. And, additionally administrator can set security permissions to limit what access is provided to which user. - Users can build business intelligence (BI) dashboards by using Microsoft Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2012 Excel Services together with the Excel Web Access Web Part and use Microsoft Excel workbooks as a data source in PerformancePoint Services can.
- Users can use Web-service – based interface with the server in addition to browser-based interface. A published Excel workbook can be accessed programmatically by any application that uses Web services. Using that interface the web service applications can change values, calculate the workbook, and retrieve the updated workbook according to the security permissions set for this workbook.
- Users can easily build reports. When data-connected workbooks published in the SharePoint 2010 site and they are available through SharePoint Excel Services 2010, you can share reports that you have created in Microsoft Excel 2010 throughout the organization. This is one of the most useful features of SharePoint 2010 Excel Services.
Compare SharePoint Excel Services 2012
All these great capabilities which were available with the Enterprise edition of SharePoint 2010 are still available in the Enterprise edition of SharePoint 2013.
Excel Services 2013 updates
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 introduces the new capabilities in SharePoint Excel Services and new enhancements to existing technologies:
- SharePoint Excel Services 2013 lets users create a new kind of user-defined functions (UDFs) —ECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript) UDFs. Such UDFs run either in a Microsoft Excel 2013 workbook that is hosted in an Excel Web Access Web Part on SharePoint 2013 or in an embedded on a host webpage workbook.
- New SharePoint 2013 Excel Services Interactive View which generates Excel table and chart views on-the-fly, in the browser, from an HTML table hosted on a web page using HTML, JavaScript, and Excel Services. This new Excel Interactive View allows you to use the analytical power of Excel on any HTML table on any web page without having Microsoft Excel installed.
- Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise 2013 now uses the Open Data Protocol (OData) to get information about Excel Services 2013 resources in addition to REST API which were introduced in SharePoint Enterprise 2010.
These new capabilities will certainly make your development efforts much easier.
So, if you have interested with Business Intelligence or SharePoint Excel Services, please visit to the company site to get more details about the pricing, plans of the hosted Excel services page.
