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

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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

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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

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Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019
Don’t believe the hype –
why O365 might not be the Droid you are looking for

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

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Social Connections 15 Munich, September 16-18 2019
The market wave (what everyone else is doing..)
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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»

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Let’s start with a simple one..
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a few months back

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the current offering

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This is from two days ago
Guess who’s back?

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The when-to-use-what paradigm
«When To Use What In Office 365» by Richard Harbridge, Kanwal Khipple & Haniel Croitoru, 2toLead

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Infographic by OnPoint Solutions

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it’s all about the loops

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it’s all about the loops
«Microsoft 365 Teamwork infographic» from metalogix.com / «Where to start the conversation for teamwork» infographic from 365forall.com

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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?

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added bonus slides
this: explains this:
Guess who’s back?

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Performance & Stability

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• 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

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Security & Regulation concerns aka the comeback of..

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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 - $$$$

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Experience and feedback from customers
• They want
• simplicity
• more control
• more time to adapt solutions
• «scheduled implementation..»
• flexibility
• small(er) solutions

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HCL Connections – flexible and modular for users and IT
Graphic by Alan Hamilton

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want to know more? get in touch with us
Belsoft Collaboration AG
collaboration@belsoft.ch
https://belsoft-collaboration.ch
@belsoft
Tel: +41 44 388 13 41

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