Agenda Intro to Project Siena What Project Siena

Agenda • Intro to Project Siena • What Project Siena does and who it’s for • Project Siena partner and customer success • Getting Started

Today’s app dev environment Today’s information workers are data-rich, yet still held back • • Abundant - but underutilized – business data Ubiquitous, powerful mobile devices are mostly used for email and schedule Domain experts with great app ideas Overburdened and overbooked IT departments

Project Siena is a game-changing technology that enables business experts and analysts to quickly create prototype or production business apps with no programming skills required Project Siena is not: • A replacement for Visual Studio • A tool to build apps with extensive database requirements • A tool for building apps that process transactions (e. Commerce) • A tool for building traditional form-over-relational-data or transactional apps (CRM)

Truly modern, richly connected apps Apps for on-the-spot decisions Consultative selling, accessorizing outfits… Apps for consuming information Product catalogs, video-based lesson plans… Apps for “capture” tasks Pictures, audio, handwriting and more

Ease of development and rapid innovation benefits apply to multiple groups Power-Users and Business Analysts Able to rapidly design apps that they use, to solve the problems they face IT Departments Offload detailed requirements gathering, development and validation to line of business teams

Manageability Project Siena apps are managed like any Windows 8 app, using Windows Intune or other app management tools Extensibility Project Siena apps are extensible via Microsoft Visual Studio or other dev tools. Data Services IT can certify and supply data services to support apps, and offload app development to business units.

Business Problem Toro marketing manager was tasked with developing a catalog to distribute to attendees a major marketing event with NASCAR Project Siena Solution Design and production of a rich product catalog app Produced in days Results The Toro Company Manufacturing The catalog app generated 3 x sales leads over its paperbased counterpart. Toro began discussions with retailers to include the solution on retail floors

• Quickly validate concepts, adapting in real time with stakeholders • Reduce development and validation months to days, days to hours • Publish finished app to production (or extend with dev tools such as Visual Studio) Sketch Build Validate

Install Project Siena and training materials: • Download Project Siena from the Windows Store: • aka. ms/Get. Project. Siena • Learn more about Project Siena: • aka/ms/Project. Siena • Watch an Introduction video to Project Siena: • aka. ms/Project. Siena. Intro. Video • Download sample apps, and tutorials on how to build them: • aka. ms/Project. Siena. Tutorials And keep up to date with the latest from the Project Siena team: • Technet Blog: http: //blogs. technet. com/b/projectsiena/ • Technet Forum: http: //social. technet. microsoft. com/Forums/en. US/home? forum=projectsiena • Twitter Feed: http: //twitter. com/Project. Siena • Facebook Page: http: //www. facebook. com/Microsoft. Project. Siena

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