How Slack Complements Office 365

Slack, a popular communication channel-oriented app and service, has experienced phenomenal growth since it was formally launched during early 2014, and is one of the most prominent “unicorn” (venture-backed startups with valuations of more than a billion dollars) case studies. Slack’s success and its potential applicability for enterprise communication, collaboration, and content management needs serve…

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How to Avoid the “Collaboration Curse”

Collaboration has been the focus of some critical business press lately. Harvard Business Review recently published an article titled “Collaboration Overload,” for example, and The Economist published a related article provocatively titled “The Collaboration Curse” (noting that “[t]he fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far”). The authors of both articles lament the amount…

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Patterns from 650 Enterprise Accounts Migrated to Microsoft Platforms

Several of our previous blog posts, including Migrating Notes/Domino Deployments to Office 365, A Revised and Reduced Role for Traditional SharePoint in Office 365, and Google Apps => Office 365 Migration Patterns, provide details about enterprise content/collaboration migration patterns. This post provides a drill-down into migration cost savings that can be achieved with the CASAHL…

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Liberating Legacy Content/Collaboration Resources for PowerApps

Our previous post, Microsoft PowerApps: Revolutionary Potential for Office 365 Collaborative Applications, provides an overview of some reasons why we believe Microsoft’s new PowerApps tool is likely to be exceptionally popular for modern and mobile applications used in conjunction with Office 365. This post continues our PowerApps-related coverage, and explains how enterprises can overcome challenges…

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