SharePoint Devs & Admins standing proud! Special thanks to Saudi.

SharePoint Devs & Admins standing proud today. Why? because these are the people who are developing and supporting over 65,000 customers worldwide, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies.

We came a long way through many SharePoint(s) in the past. Today, SharePoint 2010 has been sold over 125 million SharePoint licenses! and still the next release "is the biggest release of SharePoint we've ever done, [with] the largest engineering team" according to Jeff Teper corporate vice president of the Office Business Platform at Microsoft standing at the SharePoint Conference 2011 at Anaheim, California.

In Saudi, i don't have a exact number however, SharePoint is extremely popular in all sectors i've been working with including Oil & Gas, Financial, Education, Public Sector, etc... many govemerment agencies, banks, small, meduim and large enterprises. I've seen internal, external, extranet portals. I've seen people are using it for internal communication, marketing, just pure collaboration, publishing, integrations, rapid applications and many other scenarios.

Today in Saudi we have three large communities Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG) managed by the one coolest speakers "Jerry" who i've been working with for couple of time including last GDC09.Also, we have other groups SharePoint Geeks and Hijaz SharePoint User Group (managed by good SharePoint godfathers Ahmad Naji and Salman Butt in Makka)". learn more about the Saudi Community Site.

 

Read more about what happened in the SharePoint Conference: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2011/10/03/microsoft-investing-in-sharepoint.aspx

And Follow the twitter account: https://twitter.com/#!/SPConf

And the facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/wwspc

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 06, 2011
  Good to see a strong presence in the Middle East still.  I was working out in Dubai a few years back and saw the early stages of what is now a very strong movement.   Good work.  Keep it up!