At a recent Lunch & Learn event in Arkansas, Sparky SharePoint Director Cody Gros presents the differences between and benefits of SharePoint Online, On-Premise and Azure IaaS.

1. WHAT IS THE RIGHT SHAREPOINT CLOUD STRATEGY
FOR MY BUSINESS?
Cloud Strategy Lunch & Learn

2. WHAT’S OUR AGENDA?
SharePoint Options
SharePoint On-Prem
SharePoint Online
SharePoint in Azure Iaas
Hybrid Approach

3. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SHAREPOINT?
• Multiple Microsoft Gold and Silver competencies
• Portals and Collaboration
• Application Development
• Office 365 Deployment Partner
• Azure Inner Circle
• Substantial experience dating back to SharePoint 2003
• Intranets, Extranets and Public Websites
• Large SharePoint specific consulting team (25+) capable of supporting enterprise partnerships
• Document Management, Portals, Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Workflow and Business
Process Automation, User Experience and Branding, Custom Development and App Model,
Solutions and IP
• On-premise and Cloud migrations (Office 365, Azure, Amazon Web Services)
• Managed Services for SharePoint, Service Desk and SharePoint Enhancements

4. WHAT IS YOUR SHAREPOINT
STRATEGY TODAY?

5. WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS?
On Premise
History
SharePoint Portal Server 2001
SharePoint Team Services
SharePoint Services 2.0/ 2003
SharePoint Service 3.0/ MOSS 2007
SharePoint Foundation/ Server 2010
SharePoint Foundation / Server 2013
SharePoint Online (O365)
Released in 2009 / based on SharePoint 2007
Rebranded as Office 365 on SP 2010
Moving all tenants to SP 2013
SharePoint in Azure IaaS
What is it?
Running on-prem in the Microsoft cloud

6. More Customizations
Less complexity

7. SHAREPOINT ON-PREM PROS
Within your organization’s network
Full customization options
More granular operational control
Easier access to other line of business data
Full control on patching & upgrades

8. SHAREPOINT ON-PREM CONS
Large initial cost for infrastructure/licensing (servers, disk storage, etc…)
Requires team to manage environment
Longer duration for farm setup and configuration
Added business continuity costs and tasks
IT staff responsible for patching & migrating

9. SHAREPOINT ONLINE PROS
Pay as you use
Requires less IT resources with deep SharePoint knowledge
Patches and migrations are performed by Microsoft
Access SharePoint sites from anywhere
Business Continuity provided by Microsoft (data center replication)

10. SHAREPOINT ONLINE CONS
Customizations/Deployment/API have a learning curve
Lack of granular administrative options
Limited control on updates and migrations
Fewer service applications (PerformancePoint, SSRS, etc…)
Lack of troubleshooting options

11. SHAREPOINT IN IAAS PROS
On-Prem virtualization infrastructure not required
Scale resources in response to user demand
Great for business continuity scenarios
Great approach for development/testing/staging environments
Full granular control of the SP farm/OS/SQL

12. HOW ABOUT A HYBRID?

13. WHAT APPROACH IS RIGHT FOR ME?
 What are you using the SharePoint platform for?
 Document Management
 Process Automation
 Line of Business data surfacing/integration
 Web Content Management (Intranet,Portal,etc…)
 Collaboration

14. QUESTIONS?