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1. Living in the Cloud
HEAVEN OR HECK?

2. Robert Cathlina
 SharePoint administrator and developer
 Office 365 Evangelist
 Data Guy
 Stratus Custom Cloud

3. SharePoint
 Raise your hands if you’ve used SharePoint
 “SharePoint is a four letter word in my organization”
 SharePoint is an application!
 SharePoint is changing!

4. Office 365 Dashboard
Pro
Many features inside traditionally SharePoint are being turned into their own applications:
PowerApps
Flow
Power BI

5. Office 365 Apps Examples
 Has anyone worked with Flow, PowerApps, or Power BI?
 Example Flow
 Flow Output
 Power BI
Pro

6. Infrastructure
 Infrastructure As A Service
 Don’t need to tech refresh every two years
 Test new hardware without the commitment
Pro

7. Operating System and Device Agnostic
 Presenting on a mac!
 Microsoft built the cloud with mobile in mind
 SharePoint, PowerApps, Skype for Business, OneNote, OneDrive, Outlook
Pro

8. Out of the box customizations:
 Customizations:
 Automatically send approval emails with Approve and Reject actions
 Easily sign and backup documents with docusign
 Send email reminders on upcoming tasks
 Record tailored training with Skype to add to O365 Video Channel
 Share different KPIs with different audiences
 Co-authoring
 Versioning

9. Third Party Webparts
 Often time can replace large enterprise solutions
 More and more third party webparts are added everyday
 Many of these eliminate the need for large enterprise software
 Examples: Time Off Manager; Expense Manager; Help Desk Pro

10. Universal Windows App Platform
 Applications built in Azure connect to Office 365 with APIs
 Think of Office 365 as the front end to Azure
 SharePoint Framework (based on Javascript) to be released soon!
 Scale!
Pro

11. Lack of Control
 Organizations are used to managing full life cycle
 Shift to a monitoring role can be daunting
 Training can ease fears!
 The Cloud is coming!! What is the cloud?!?!?
 Microsoft wants to control everything!?
Con

12. Changing Scope/ Requirements
 Has anyone here ever had their work made obsolete by a change in scope
or requirements?

13. Agile world
 The world is now Agile
 Get used to changing requirements
 Microsoft releases updates to tools every three to six months
 Static IT strategies are the way of the past
Con

14. Knowledge Gap and Training
 The Cloud is daunting and confusing for users!
 Consider your org in two groups:
 Users who consume
 Power Users who create
 People are curios about the cloud- incentivize them to be Power User’s
 Create personalized training with Skype for Business and upload it to your
Office 365 channel
 Or use Youtube videos

15. Bandwidth
 Connections to the cloud eat up bandwidth
 Tools do not function properly if connection is slow
 This breeds distrust!
 Does anyone have experience trying to use these tools with a slow connection?
 Ensure your organization has the proper bandwidth to support the tools
before you make the investment
Con

16. Data
 Internal data can interact with Office 365 in a hybrid environment or it can
be moved to Azure
 External data can possibly be accessed through Flow which is used to
connect to third party data sources such as:
 Twitter
 Dropbox
 Salesforce
 Google Platform
 Flow Services
 Microsoft is adding more services daily and the goal is to allow business to
integrate their services directly into Office 365
Con

17. The Cloud
 Don’t let is rain on your parade!

18. Questions?
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19. Contact Info
Robert Cathlina
Email: RobertCathlina@StratusCustomCloud.onmicrosoft.com
Cell: 512-210-9175
StratusCustomCloud.com