Cloud Computing: Moving to Office 365 – Top 10 Things You Should Know

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: Steven Pogrebivsky.

You’ve been thinking about moving to Office 365. You know it offers some great capabilities while helping reduce some costs, but you need to convince management it’s the right move. There is a lot to take into consideration, but these 10 talking points should help you explain your recommendations to management.

1. The Advantages and Challenges of a Public Cloud

Office 365 is a SaaS (software as a service) offering, hosted by Microsoft. This is a public cloud service, so it comes with a number of potential concerns — availability and security being the two biggest ones. There are a number of benefits to a SaaS offering like Office 365: you pay a monthly subscription for your site and nothing more, you get most of the standard SharePoint features, and you can work with external partners much more easily than in an on premises SharePoint implementation…

Plus your employees can work anytime, anywhere. But you are playing by Microsoft?s rules, which means there are some things you can’t do – like install your own custom solutions. And you have to trust that Microsoft will secure your content appropriately and have your site available whenever you need it. It’s not unusual for SaaS services to become unavailable for periods of time, so make sure you understand what Microsoft’s terms of service are and decide if you can live with them…

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