Personally I'd say that Office365 revenue is great revenue, as it's recurring and has good lock-in.
It is but calling it cloud revenue is a bit of a stretch, I don't know why they are being dishonest about it.
It is but calling it cloud revenue is a bit of a stretch, I don't know why they are being dishonest about it.
Office 365, OWA, SharePoint Online/OneDrive, AD, and Teams (VoIP) are absolutely a cloud service.
The cost and support savings for enterprises going from on-prem to cloud with stuff like Sharepoint can be huge. And Microsoft, for all its faults, understands the enterprise market in a way that Google and Apple definitely don't. I think Amazon has a better understanding of enterprise customers but they don't have the product offering to rival what Microsoft brings to the game. And because of the synergies Microsoft can offer, they can eat into the pie of other companies like Salesforce. Dynamics CRM isn't as good as Salesforce but it's easier to justify if you've already bought into the rest of the Office365 ecosystem.
I think Microsoft is poised for serious growth with their cloud offerings that is going to drive strong stock price growth for years to come.
onedrive for business is sharepoint.
Now that additional staff cost is gone, and stuff can be provisioned in no time at all.
We are talking about the Decision to go with microsoft or not today.
In the past clients would always deal with on-prem installs. But picking ActiveDir and Exchange was decided on their need of office.
Today, clients expect to create account, deal with SSO if they are big and that is it. Now picking microsoft offerings is still based on their need of Office.
It is all the same picture.
OWA is okay, and I understand the changes in Outlook proper to be closer to that, and I know the reasons why (eventually consistent backend), but the Outlook app experience is a bit jarring on some instances, but getting better again.
I don't use Sharepoint (except via Teams' wiki) and don't use OneDrive much, but others in our org definitely do.
For any business with even a dozen employees on computers, Office 365 is definitely worth the cost of entry over trying to maintain those kinds of things internally. No affiliation with MS, and don't even run Windows where I don't have to, just appreciate the services for what they are.
I do wish that google would step up here a bit more, their solution is just so disjointed by comparison, and it's like they've got an identity crisis. MS totally leapfrogged them in terms of online document/mail solutions for business.
I would like to see better identity integration for Azure/AD with Apple and Linux desktops. Most of my experience with macbooks is middling to horrible, and Linux hasn't been a laptop/desktop option in any workplace I've been in using AD, which would be my first preference.
If you store word, excel, powerpoint documents elsewhere than SharePoint, and your storage doesnt have versioning, its definitely worth moving your data over.
As for files, for a lot of them, I use VSTS/Git for them a lot of the time. The PMs use it in teams more.
Right...
It's malpractice, but still legal.