Why SharePoint? – What is the Value?

SharePoint 2016

8 reasons why Intranet in SharePoint rocks!
http://sharepointmaven.com/why-sharepoint-intranet-rocks/

Business Value and SharePoint
http://www.expertsofsharepoint.com/business-value-sharepoint/

Office 365

Reinventing business processes in SharePoint and Office 365
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Reinventing-business-processes-in-SharePoint-amp-Office-365/ba-p/69260

SharePoint 2013

How IT Can Pitch SharePoint for Business Decision Makers
https://www.avepoint.com/blog/avepoint-blog/can-pitch-sharepoint-strategic-business-platform-decision-makers/

Why Use SharePoint?
https://en.share-gate.com/blog/why-use-sharepoint-its-benefits-between-two-farms

What business value does SharePoint provide?
https://www.winxnet.com/blog/blog-home/sharepoint-business-value/

Older Legacy

Found good article on why should you use SharePoint

http://www.onsearchinteractive.com/microsoft-sharepoint/fully-leveraging-microsoft-sharepoint-questions-to-ask/

Would you like to provide your employees with an internal website/platform where employees can communicate, share/store documents and content, collaborate on projects/documents, search for internal information and expertise, execute business processes online (i.e. submit an expense report for approval), and consume business information for decision making (i.e. business intelligence)

How do employees learn about new business process, policies, or any other important communication?
Are you only relying on email?
How do employees access company applications, services, forms, contact information, and documents?
How do employees find certain expertise within the company?
How do employees collaborate in projects?
Do your employees take online training today?
How do employees share the projects that are working on, their interest or any other info that may be relevant to the rest of employees?
Do you know how much time your employees spend searching for info and the cost of that time?
How are you dealing with business process/document approvals? (i.e purchase requests, travel expense)
How do you access the company directory? Is it visual? Can you see the relationship of employees?
If an employee left right now and sue the company, how would you lock all the content he was involved?
Do you have document retention/archive plans or policies and if so what are they?
How do you manage records for compliance (i.e. controlling changes to document such as policies, declare records so they cannot be edited or deleted and sent to the proper record center)
How are forms being handled today? (i.e. in paper)
How are you managing version control?
What about auditing of documents?
How are forms being handled today? (i.e. in paper)
How does IT manage the onboarding process? (ie. assign PC, give access to email, etc)
How much is spent in paper and document storage on a monthly basis?
How do you collaborate in projects with parties outside of the company?
How do you manage the publication of web content today?
How is the procedure to upload and store documents?
How do you control access to documents?
How are documents signed today? (i.e. paper)
How does management get information/reports on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)?

All solved by SharePoint

SharePoint Performance Optimization and Scale

2016

Optimize Performance
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj721440(v=office.16).aspx
Planning Performance
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971(v=office.16).aspx

2013

How To Calculate Number of web front end servers in a SharePoint farm 2013 and 2010
http://abhayajoshi.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-to-calculate-number-of-web-front_24.html

Capacity management and sizing for SharePoint Server 2013
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261700(v=office.16).aspx

Optimize Performance
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj721440.aspx
Planning Performance
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971(v=office.15).aspx

2010

Scaling SharePoint
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261795(v=office.12).aspx

Interacting with Data Collector Sets via Powershell
http://blogs.technet.com/b/brad_rutkowski/archive/2009/02/18/interacting-with-data-collector-sets-via-powershell.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7926.sharepoint-2010-tips-for-dealing-with-performance-issues.aspx
Great list of Links on SharePoint Performance
http://www.sharepointedutech.com/2011/10/09/spc373-performance-tuning-sharepoint-2010/
http://www.slideshare.net/joeloleson/sharepoint-performance-optimization-in-10-steps-for-the-it-professional

Developer Performance Tools (Visual Studio Solutions)
SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose best practices http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rogerla/archive/2010/12/13/announcing-spdisposecheck-v14-0-4762-1000-update-for-sharepoint-development.aspx

IIS
w3wp.exe using too much memory and resources
http://blog.whitesites.com/w3wp-exe-using-too-much-memory-and-resources__633900106668026886_blog.htm

SAN
Great Video and scripts to help diagnose issues (SAN or not)http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2011/08/how-prove-its-san-problem-webcast-video/

SQL Performance Tools

SQLIOSim - For Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQLIOSim was shipped as a separate download package. Starting with SQL Server 2008, SQLIOSim is included with the SQL Server product installation http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231619
SQLIO - Microsoft Utility used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20163

Other Performance Tools

Logman and powershell
http://colleenmorrow.com/2012/02/13/using-powershell-to-deploy-performance-monitor/
Team Foundation Server with Test Edition
Jumble
Grinder
OpenSTA
Fiddler2
webpagetest.org
perfmon
SQL Server Management Studio
Firebug and Firebug lite
HTTP Watch
IE Dev Tool Bar
Temp DB
Separate Disk
Watch Disk Space
Compact
Watch Memory
GZip

OLD

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sanjaynarang/archive/2009/04/18/sharepoint-performance-stress-load-testing.aspx