Successful 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…
DetailsThe 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…
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…
DetailsUpdate: Microsoft unveiled a multifaceted strategy for the future of SharePoint at a 5/4/2016 event, and addressed some of the open issues identified in this post; please see A Refined and Revitalized Role for Modern SharePoint: Microsoft Stands by Its Brand for the latest details. This post still provides useful SharePoint history for any readers…
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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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Our previous post, Liberating Notes/Domino-based Resources, identified the types of collaboration and content resources that can be most productively modernized and migrated from legacy Notes/Domino deployments. In this post, we briefly survey the leading targets (i.e., destination platforms and services) for migration projects. Several years ago, the migration patterns were straightforward: Notes/Domino enterprise messaging (email…
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