New in sharepoint 2013

                        

 

Support forCommon Web Standards

Programming Model of SharePoint 2013 is based on common web standards including HTML, CSS and JavaScript that makes SharePoint development easy for web developer’s without Microsoft background

New Development Tools

Visual Studio 2013

• NET MVC Project template for SharePoint Apps.

• Workflow Debugging support for SharePoint online.
• New SharePoint Phone Application Wizard Template
• Visual Designer 2013 – Enhanced support for customizing and publishing workflows in SharePoint Designer 2013.
• “Napa” – a new web based tool for Office 365 development.

SharePoint 2013 Cloud App Model

is a model for developing and installing apps having added advantages as:

• apps are isolated so easier to deploy and maintain.
• apps are stored on an apps server instead of SharePoint server resulting reduced load on SharePoint Server.
• apps are ready for cloud.

Business Connectivity Services

• improvements to Online SharePoint Business Connectivity Services.
• REST based Object Model for Web and Mobile application developers.
• Improved support for sorting and filtering of external Lists.
• Export external list data to an Excel workbook.
• Improvements to Event Listeners.

 

Enterprise Content Management

 

SharePoint being primarily an Enterprise Content Management product enhanced many core features in this area as:

• Managed Metadata
• e-Discovery
• Team Folders

 

 

 

Search

• More powerful and unified search. It gives more functionality to search with results coming much faster.
• Relevant and personalized Search on the basis of a user’s search history.
• Document preview on search result without opening document.
• In order to keep the index current (maximum possible), continuous crawl feature is introduced.
• and much more to it that requires a complete separate post.
• Social and Collaboration– Social support is key to any application these days. Web 2.0 is considered to be “The Social Web” and SharePoint 2013 has added a lot to social and collaboration features including Communities, Micro-blogging and Interactive feed etc.
• Workflows
  • Just like the new “app” model, Workflow also run in a separate service to SharePoint.
  • Workflow Engine – SharePoint 2013 uses WF 4.0 as compared to SharePoint 2010 that uses WF 3.5 for workflows.
  • Enhanced Workflow Manager Capabilities.
  • Designer and Project Template

Mobile

• HTML 5 support in SharePoint 2013 extends it’s usage for Mobile devices.
• Office Mobile Web Apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Social Computing Features: 
• SharePoint 2013 has introduced many good improvements with respect to Social Computing including Communities, Micro blogging, My Sites, Activity Feeds,Yammer Integration etc.
  • New Site Templates are introduced for Community sites in SharePoint 2013.
  • SharePoint 2013 has Micro blogs – It allows a user to broadcast a message publicly at a central location where other users can respond.
  • My Sites design has also been improved for better navigation.