Once your enterprise has finished migrating all its content and applications from your legacy system into the target deployment, congratulations are in order! You’ve carried out a migration! This means you’re done, right? Well… almost. Rather, you could consider a migration finished at this stage, but there are a few other things to follow up…
DetailsThe most complicated part of any migration is the migration of complex custom applications. We discussed the migration of simple content in our previous post, but the history and variety of complex applications make them an entirely different beast. Most enterprises have at least a few complex custom apps; those apps are often built over…
DetailsEnterprise 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…
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…
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…
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…
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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In our last few posts, we addressed the benefits of liberating Notes/Domino-based resources, fully leveraging new collaboration/content alternatives in Office 365, and optimizing SharePoint in Office 365 and SharePoint 2016. This post provides a brief overview of the CASAHL DART product suite, and explains how it’s uniquely well-suited to address common enterprise collaboration/content migration needs. The…
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Microsoft SharePoint has evolved in many ways since it was first released in 2001. As we prepare for Microsoft Ignite, we’d like to briefly share some perspectives on SharePoint’s evolution, and on how SharePoint customer priorities have recently changed, primarily in order to leverage new opportunities in Office 365. The most significant changes SharePoint customers…
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