Microsoft 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…
DetailsCollaboration has been the focus of some critical business press lately. Harvard Business Review recently published an article titled “Collaboration Overload,” for example, and The Economist published a related article provocatively titled “The Collaboration Curse” (noting that “[t]he fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far”). The authors of both articles lament the amount…
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…
DetailsBuilding on insights from more than twenty years of being exclusively focused on collaborative application and content optimization techniques and tools, CASAHL has developed a uniquely powerful solution for enterprises seeking to migrate to popular cloud productivity platforms such as Office 365. In our previous post, we provided an overview of the discovery and analysis…
DetailsIn our previous post, we addressed four common challenges for organizations seeking to fully leverage new cloud collaboration and content opportunities. To briefly recap, the project phases involved include: Discovery, to create a full inventory of already-deployed collaboration and content resources Analysis, making it possible to have a detailed and fact-based review of the current collaboration…
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