WHAT IS THE RIGHT SHAREPOINT CLOUD STRATEGY FOR MY BUSINESS?

Cloud Strategy Lunch & Learn

WHAT’S OUR AGENDA?SharePoint Options

SharePoint On-Prem

SharePoint Online

SharePoint in Azure Iaas

Hybrid Approach

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

WHAT IS YOUR SHAREPOINT STRATEGY TODAY?

WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS?

On PremiseHistorySharePoint Portal Server 2001SharePoint Team Services SharePoint Services 2.0/ 2003SharePoint Service 3.0/ MOSS 2007SharePoint Foundation/ Server 2010SharePoint Foundation / Server 2013

SharePoint Online (O365)Released in 2009 / based on SharePoint 2007Rebranded as Office 365 on SP 2010Moving all tenants to SP 2013

SharePoint in Azure IaaSWhat is it?Running on-prem in the Microsoft cloud

SaaS

Hardware

O/S

Application

PaaS

Hardware

O/S

Application

IaaS

Hardware

O/S

Application

More Customizations

Less complexity

SHAREPOINT ON-PREM PROSWithin your organization’s network

Full customization options

More granular operational control

Easier access to other line of business data

Full control on patching & upgrades

SHAREPOINT ON-PREM CONSLarge 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

SHAREPOINT ONLINE PROSPay 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)

SHAREPOINT ONLINE CONSCustomizations/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

SHAREPOINT IN IAAS PROSOn-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

HOW ABOUT A HYBRID?

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

QUESTIONS?