The 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…
DetailsSlack, a popular communication channel-oriented app and service, has experienced phenomenal growth since it was formally launched during early 2014, and is one of the most prominent “unicorn” (venture-backed startups with valuations of more than a billion dollars) case studies. Slack’s success and its potential applicability for enterprise communication, collaboration, and content management needs serve…
DetailsSeveral of our previous blog posts, including Migrating Notes/Domino Deployments to Office 365, A Revised and Reduced Role for Traditional SharePoint in Office 365, and Google Apps => Office 365 Migration Patterns, provide details about enterprise content/collaboration migration patterns. This post provides a drill-down into migration cost savings that can be achieved with the CASAHL…
DetailsOur previous post, Microsoft PowerApps: Revolutionary Potential for Office 365 Collaborative Applications, provides an overview of some reasons why we believe Microsoft’s new PowerApps tool is likely to be exceptionally popular for modern and mobile applications used in conjunction with Office 365. This post continues our PowerApps-related coverage, and explains how enterprises can overcome challenges…
DetailsThis 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…
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