I’m in the middle of a series of posts throwing my hat in the ring and offering my best guess at what might be next for SharePoint.

The Microsoft community has been abuzz in the last few weeks as we seem to be nearing some tangible news about what the next version of SharePoint will look like—needless to say, speculation about what the folks in Redmond might be planning (or not planning) for SharePoint 2013 is running rampant.

With the next release, there are some opportunity areas for SharePoint—and where Microsoft decides to go will have critical implications for current and future SharePoint customers:

1. Will SharePoint’s records management capabilities finally be ready for prime time?
2. Will SharePoint offer fully-functioning integration with capture technology?
3. Will SharePoint provide more robust workflow capabilities to go beyond basic document-centric processes?
4. Will SharePoint evolve into a true social business tool?
5. Will SharePoint 365 overcome the limitations of BPOS?

In the first two posts I addressed records management and capture, so today I’ll step through workflow and lay out not only how Microsoft might address it in SharePoint 2013, but also raise some key implications for current (and expectant) SharePoint customers. Click to continue »