This post provides a high-level overview of Microsoft PowerApps and its likely future influence on collaborative applications, with emphasis on how PowerApps is poised to become a powerful and popular option for enterprises migrating to Office 365 from traditional on-premises content/collaboration platforms such as SharePoint or Notes/Domino. Future CASAHL blog posts in this series will…
DetailsOur previous post explained how Office 365 is serving as a constructive content/collaboration catalyst for many enterprises that have, historically, struggled to gain business value from traditional content/collaboration products and services. If you’d like to know more about the past, present, and likely future of enterprise content/collaboration market dynamics and how Office 365 fits…
DetailsEnterprise Challenges with Traditional Content/Collaboration Platforms The need for efficient, effective, and secure enterprise content and collaboration capabilities has been widely understood for several decades and is now more business-critical than ever before. Even with the global success of traditional on-premises platforms such as Notes/Domino and SharePoint, however, it’s rare to encounter enterprises that have…
DetailsGoogle Apps and Microsoft Office together dominate the enterprise productivity application market. Google Apps was revolutionary in several respects when it was introduced during early 2006, with a Web-centric architecture and relatively inexpensive license model, and many enterprises found it to be an attractive alternative to the traditional Microsoft Office product line. Google Apps is…
DetailsMost enterprises have large collections of files scattered across a variety of systems and services ranging from on-premises file servers to Internet services such as Box and Google Drive. Files – along with other types of content including conversations (a.k.a. discussions), shared calendars, team announcements, and lists of page links and other types of items…
DetailsUpdate: Microsoft unveiled a multifaceted strategy for the future of SharePoint at a 5/4/2016 event, and addressed some of the open issues identified in this post; please see A Refined and Revitalized Role for Modern SharePoint: Microsoft Stands by Its Brand for the latest details. This post still provides useful SharePoint history for any readers…
DetailsLotus Notes rapidly became the leading enterprise content/collaboration platform when it was introduced more than 25 years ago, but the Notes/Domino platform has since been relegated to a legacy role along with related IBM products including QuickPlace, Quickr, and Domino Document Manager. Although IBM has shifted its enterprise content/collaboration focus to more modern replacements including…
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In our last few posts, we addressed the benefits of liberating Notes/Domino-based resources, fully leveraging new collaboration/content alternatives in Office 365, and optimizing SharePoint in Office 365 and SharePoint 2016. This post provides a brief overview of the CASAHL DART product suite, and explains how it’s uniquely well-suited to address common enterprise collaboration/content migration needs. The…
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Microsoft SharePoint has evolved in many ways since it was first released in 2001. As we prepare for Microsoft Ignite, we’d like to briefly share some perspectives on SharePoint’s evolution, and on how SharePoint customer priorities have recently changed, primarily in order to leverage new opportunities in Office 365. The most significant changes SharePoint customers…
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Our previous post, Liberating Notes/Domino-based Resources, identified the types of collaboration and content resources that can be most productively modernized and migrated from legacy Notes/Domino deployments. In this post, we briefly survey the leading targets (i.e., destination platforms and services) for migration projects. Several years ago, the migration patterns were straightforward: Notes/Domino enterprise messaging (email…
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