New Opportunities in Activity Management and Organizational Analytics

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There 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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How Slack Complements Office 365

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Slack, 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…

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How to Avoid the “Collaboration Curse”

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Collaboration 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…

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Liberating Legacy Content/Collaboration Resources for PowerApps

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Our 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…

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Microsoft PowerApps: Revolutionary Potential for Office 365 Collaborative Applications

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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…

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Extended-Play Version: Leveraging New Enterprise Content/Collaboration Opportunities with Office 365

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Our 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…

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Leveraging New Enterprise Content/Collaboration Opportunities with Office 365

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Enterprise 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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Google Apps => Office 365 Migration Patterns

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Google 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…

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Amplifying the Value of Enterprise Content in Office 365 with a Complete Migration Solution

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Most 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…

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