Leveraging the Paradox of Abundance in Compelling Cloud Collaboration Options

Enterprise collaboration, as a software product/service domain, has had something of a roller coaster history, with lots of ups and downs. Starting with the combined send-and-share (messaging/documents) focus of Lotus Notes in the late 1980s and continuing through the enterprise social wave of recent years, enterprise collaboration offerings haven’t consistently delivered on vendor visions or…

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New Enterprise Opportunities from Conversational Collaboration Convergence

Several enterprise market dynamics have converged to create a new wave of conversational collaboration apps and services that offer compelling new opportunities to streamline work and get more value from enterprise content resources. This new wave is currently disrupting the traditional content/collaboration competitive landscape and creating new requirements for content/collaboration migration solutions. This post provides…

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Eight Keys to Content/Collaboration Cloud Migration Success

CASAHL has learned over the course of hundreds of enterprise-scale migration projects that eight key processes and products are needed to ensure migration quality in terms of content fidelity, correctness, completeness, and user acceptance. We’ve also learned, from customer stories and experiences with inadequate migration tools and techniques (either from CASAHL competitors or home-grown), that…

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A Tale of Two SharePoint Platforms: Compelling Content and Collaboration Capabilities in Office 365

Microsoft is making significant enhancements to content and collaboration capabilities in modern SharePoint, placing SharePoint Online at the center of its Office 365 content/collaboration value proposition. This post provides an overview of the new capabilities, contrasting them with earlier content/collaboration features in traditional SharePoint (primarily on-premises SharePoint Server). The new capabilities and underlying architecture in…

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The Microsoft Office 365 Juggernaut:

The Microsoft Office 365 juggernaut is rapidly gaining momentum in the enterprise market. A Gartner survey taken during early January 2016 and summarized in a complimentary Gartner webinar (which you can view by registering at this Gartner page), based on responses from 461 Gartner Research Circle members, revealed: 78% of the survey respondents indicated they…

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Ongoing Office 365 Content and App Optimization

Office 365 enterprise deployments usually begin with migration projects for content and collaborative apps, resources that were previously managed on legacy content/collaboration platforms and first-generation Internet file storage/sharing services. Several dynamics can lead to content and apps in Office 365 becoming suboptimal over time, however, often with severe consequences for productivity, flexibility, and/or governance. As…

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New Opportunities in Activity Management and Organizational Analytics

There are significant new opportunities in activity management and organizational analytics, and they’re opening the door for content/collaboration innovation. Several popular startup vendors have introduced offerings that move beyond basic services for messaging/communication and content sharing/collaboration, and Microsoft is offering a rapidly-expanding set of related tools in Office 365, including Planner and Delve Analytics. These…

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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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