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Don’t believe the hype – why O365 might not be the Droid you are looking for

LetsConnect
September 16, 2019

Don’t believe the hype – why O365 might not be the Droid you are looking for

My research over the last two years showed a big change in the perception of what Office365 is, can be, or should be. More and more companies are struggling with the overwhelming offering and constant changes. Add this to changing regulations and security concerns and suddenly you find yourself looking for alternatives. In this session, I share some insights about our findings and feedback we got from several companies which are on O365 but are not happy with the offering and why they are considering other solutions.

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September 16, 2019
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  1. Don’t believe the hype – why O365 might not be

    the Droid you are looking for Andreas Ponte
  2. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 What I will

    talk about • Introduction • Some background information • Complains, fears, challenges about the O365 offering and cloud offerings in general
  3. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 Andreas Ponte Combining

    reporting, audit and compliance experience from the reinsurance industry with about 25 years of technical IT know-how to enable security and collaboration adoption. Joined Belsoft AG in 2007 Since 2014 CEO of Belsoft Collaboration AG 2015 - 2019
 Regularly speaking at own events and various user groups Initiator of Icon Switzerland - a customer forum/user group about IBM HCL Collaboration solutions about me
  4. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 Don’t believe the

    hype – why O365 might not be the Droid you are looking for
  5. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 The market wave

    (what everyone else is doing..) ! Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards
  6. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 The market wave

    (what everyone else is doing..) ! Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards • In the days of Agile and Cloud (add your flavour of service here) this wave is constantly moving and cycles are getting faster • Companies are struggling with the overwhelming offering and constant changes • They have concerns about regulations & security (and pricing) • and often a wrong perception of «Digital Transformation»
  7. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 The when-to-use-what paradigm

    «When To Use What In Office 365» by Richard Harbridge, Kanwal Khipple & Haniel Croitoru, 2toLead
  8. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 it’s all about

    the loops «Microsoft 365 Teamwork infographic» from metalogix.com / «Where to start the conversation for teamwork» infographic from 365forall.com
  9. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 added bonus slide

    • at last years Inspire (in July) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella explained his taxonomy of communication boosting Yammer’s role • Yammer was removed from the sign-up offering 3 months later • Customers were «convinced» to move to Teams • and today?
  10. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 • 99% uptime

    means 1% downtime. • Over the course of 365 days, that’s 3.65 days 
 the service can be down • That’s equal to 87.6 hours No outages in the cloud (aka not my problem) panagenda | How to minimize the impact of cloud outages on your business with real-time monitoring / https://istheservicedown.com
  11. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 • ! Security

    & Regulation concerns aka the comeback of..
  12. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 Experience and feedback

    from customers • Not happy with • Performance - Reliability - Complexity • Background changes breaking custom code (we have stories to tell..) • «Continuous implementation..» • no pricing transparency • the need of additional security tools - $$$$
  13. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 Experience and feedback

    from customers • They want • simplicity • more control • more time to adapt solutions • «scheduled implementation..» • flexibility • small(er) solutions
  14. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 HCL Connections –

    flexible and modular for users and IT Graphic by Alan Hamilton
  15. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 want to know

    more? get in touch with us Belsoft Collaboration AG
 [email protected] https://belsoft-collaboration.ch
 @belsoft Tel: +41 44 388 13 41