Microsoft introduced Teams, its new workspace- and chat-based communication/collaboration app, on November 2nd. Although Teams is still in a preview release phase, with general availability expected in Q1 2017, CASAHL believes Teams is poised to be a huge success, increasing end user demand for Office 365 and disrupting competitors ranging from startup specialists such as…
DetailsDeployment rationalization is the process of bringing all stakeholders in a content/collaboration migration initiative together to jointly prioritize and optimize migration project planning. For large-scale enterprise migrations to Office 365, rationalization is a critical success factor for effectively addressing complex content and collaborative app deployments. Our previous post, Comprehensive SharePoint Deployment Assessment: The First Step…
DetailsSuccessful Office 365 migrations from on-premises SharePoint Server deployments start with comprehensive assessments. When enterprises attempt Office 365 migrations without first completing deep assessments of their on-premises SharePoint deployments, the migration projects are often unnecessarily expensive and can fail to fully optimize content and collaborative apps for new Office 365 capabilities, resulting in reduced productivity…
DetailsMicrosoft is making significant enhancements to content and collaboration capabilities in modern SharePoint, placing SharePoint Online at the center of its Office 365 content/collaboration value proposition. This post provides an overview of the new capabilities, contrasting them with earlier content/collaboration features in traditional SharePoint (primarily on-premises SharePoint Server). The new capabilities and underlying architecture in…
DetailsGoogle Sites, typically available as part of Google Apps for Work when used within large enterprises, is a team site service that has some functional overlap with content/collaboration platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes/Domino. Although Google Sites hasn’t been strongly promoted by Google since it was first released in early 2008, it has…
DetailsMicrosoft held an event focused on its new strategy for the future of SharePoint on May 4th. Approximately 150 people were invited to the live event in San Francisco, and another roughly 17,000 people reportedly viewed the keynote live via Web streaming. There were also several breakout sessions available for streaming (you can view the…
DetailsThe Microsoft Office 365 juggernaut is rapidly gaining momentum in the enterprise market. A Gartner survey taken during early January 2016 and summarized in a complimentary Gartner webinar (which you can view by registering at this Gartner page), based on responses from 461 Gartner Research Circle members, revealed: 78% of the survey respondents indicated they…
DetailsMicrosoft has leveraged many of the market dynamics that have recently made Slack a team communications phenomenon (see our recent post, How Slack Complements Office 365 — Spoiler Alert: As a Migration Source for a Slack overview). The company unveiled a new Conversations as a Platform vision at its recent Build and Envision conferences, for…
DetailsOffice 365 enterprise deployments usually begin with migration projects for content and collaborative apps, resources that were previously managed on legacy content/collaboration platforms and first-generation Internet file storage/sharing services. Several dynamics can lead to content and apps in Office 365 becoming suboptimal over time, however, often with severe consequences for productivity, flexibility, and/or governance. As…
DetailsThere are significant new opportunities in activity management and organizational analytics, and they’re opening the door for content/collaboration innovation. Several popular startup vendors have introduced offerings that move beyond basic services for messaging/communication and content sharing/collaboration, and Microsoft is offering a rapidly-expanding set of related tools in Office 365, including Planner and Delve Analytics. These…
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