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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1. Don’t believe the hype – why O365 might not be the Droid you are looking for Andreas Ponte
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3. 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
4. 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
5. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 Don’t believe the hype – why O365 might not be the Droid you are looking for
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
7. 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»
8. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 Let’s start with a simple one.. ?
9. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 a few months back
10. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 the current offering
11. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 This is from two days ago Guess who’s back?
12. 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
13. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 Infographic by OnPoint Solutions
14. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 it’s all about the loops
15. 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
16. 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?
17. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 added bonus slides this: explains this: Guess who’s back?
18. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 Performance & Stability
19. 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
20. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 • ! Security & Regulation concerns aka the comeback of..
21. 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 - $$$$
22. 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
23. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 HCL Connections – flexible and modular for users and IT Graphic by Alan Hamilton
24. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019
25. Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019 want to know more? get in touch with us Belsoft Collaboration AG
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