Shrinking the ’App Surface’ - Microsoft Mesh

I have lost track of how many social networks I’m involved with.  The ’app-surface’ is too huge to manage. In my work, we struggle with a problem of custom development: another system means another place for the lawyers to worry about their data.  We are maintaining apps that were designed for a specific purpose but are being used by 25% of the organization.   Occasionally, I will bang out a new prototype app that may or may not take off.   It helps keep the innovation conversation going, but it broadens the surface of possible apps to work in.  This is a problem.  The solution is buried somewhere within the combination of service-enabling application data, creating dashboards and pluggable architectures, notification systems, unified communication, etc... Lately we have been talking about Sharepoint as the ultimate solution because you can wire all of your enterprise libraries into web parts and slap it all onto a single webpage.  What ...