Today at Ignite 2017, we announced SharePoint hub sites, a new building block of the intranet, to bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, to simplify search, and to create cohesion...
Updated May 30, 2018
Version 6.0
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Hub sites should be much more dynamic than they are. Again, I am having a hard time grasping the incompleteness of this technology. An administrator manually controlling hub sites seems non-productive and requires a specific person to control the way information and data are brought together.
Hub sites should be controlled by analyzing the users individual logins and access to specific files and other cloud resources. Determine social , technical and humanistic behavior and use those data points to connect each other. Let the end user be in control of the building blocks to their own more productive portal or intranet. Leave the ability for an Administrative override for really important company announcements or emergency broadcasts. but ultimately hubs as they are defined today can become company silos. Silos prohibit the effective communication between data points.
Anyway, the new SharePoint platform is an improvement and I am moving everything over to it. Power Apps and Flows will remove any dependency on SharePoint Lists, or workflows. Now just do the same thing with Libraries and News
Hopefully Microsoft can unify its data storage offering and provide a new robust cloud file system that Corporations can use as a fully managed data storage platform. Millions of documents in millions of subfolders with 100% reliable and easy access. Unify this with OneDrive so that consumers and businesses can truly have OneDrive to access files and other content. Now, there's OneDrive And SharePoint Libraries making it actually (at a minimum) TwoDrives for any corporation in the cloud. Once Microsoft is able to figure out how to eliminate TwoDrives and provide a true OneDrive experience, SharePoint is stripped down to just a news posting app.
Let the end user Explore, modify, create dashboards, consume all Information they have access to, then give them easy to use building blocks and templates to create their very Own Intranet using http://www.office.com
Corporations would simply need to set the home page of their browsers to http://www.office.com and provide a really powerful tool for end users and also a platform that can be modified to an individual tenants needs.
I love SharePoint, but it is time for evolution. Again, this is the greatest SharePoint upgrade yet, but just take a moment anyone reading this and go to http://www.office.com and login. (if you are licensed for it) What is SharePoint?
In my opinion, SharePoint should dissolve completely. Power Apps and Flow have already begun to dissolve SharePoint. Lets get it over with. :)