Who would have thought that along with the Volkswagen Beetle and the Sony PlayStation, the Apple iPad would be one of the most successful product launches in economic history? How does this relate to the SharePoint product and other IT products in your organization?
A: There are four trends that are extremely important for every organization that you will go over in this chapter.
User-experience trends: SharePoint is a tool that is often rolled out to all enterprise employees of an organization. For this reason, changes in the ways that people interact with interfaces have a significant influence on your SharePoint decisions. Many employees have high expectations for how intuitive, user friendly, and interactive the interface should be based on their experiences with popular consumer websites, devices, and technologies. Within the enterprise it can be especially challenging to keep the design up-to-date with growing user expectations.
IT delivery trends...