Enterprise collaboration, as a software product/service domain, has had something of a roller coaster history, with lots of ups and downs. Starting with the combined send-and-share (messaging/documents) focus of Lotus Notes in the late 1980s and continuing through the enterprise social wave of recent years, enterprise collaboration offerings haven’t consistently delivered on vendor visions or…
DetailsSeveral enterprise market dynamics have converged to create a new wave of conversational collaboration apps and services that offer compelling new opportunities to streamline work and get more value from enterprise content resources. This new wave is currently disrupting the traditional content/collaboration competitive landscape and creating new requirements for content/collaboration migration solutions. This post provides…
DetailsMicrosoft 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…
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…
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