Presenters:Daniel Cohen-Dumani

Jill HannemannChris Poteet

10 Most Impactful Takeaways From

Microsoft Ignite 2015

2About Us

Daniel Cohen-DumaniCEOPortal Solutions@dcohendumani

Jill HannemannDirector of Advisory Services Portal Solutions@JHCherryBlossom

Chris PoteetSenior Consultant Portal Solutions@chrispoteetpro

3About Portal Solutions

4times selected in Office 365/SharePoint Early Adopter Program

40Full-time employees, consultants, developers, business analysts, SME

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12 years in business

250+ SharePoint and Office 365 Implementations We deliver digital

workplace products and solutions that help organizations share what they know and

find what they need by connecting people, data, and content.

4Agenda

Review of Ignite 2015 – Next Generation News

Top 10 Takeaways

The Impact From The News

Timeline For Movement

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5Ready-To-Go Portals

• Ready-to-go Portals alleviate the need for extensive customization and provide solutions to common information needs.

• Some of the next-gen portals: Office 365 Video Portal Delve People Experience Micro-sites Office 365 Groups The new InfoPedia Portal

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• “InfoPedia”, Groups, Delve and others are intended to make the user experience contextual, easy and reusable.

• These tools improve social collaboration and co-creation between knowledge workers, enhance overall productivity, drive innovation and business process transformation within organizations, and help workers to achieve more.

8Enhanced Security Capabilities In Office 365

• Encryption at rest for Emails (Exchange), Files (OneDrive and SharePoint)

• Enhanced Right Management

• Data Loss Prevention “DLP” for OneDrive and SharePoint

• Customer LockBox• Azure KeyVault

9Easier Options For Migrating To The Cloud

• Microsoft wants to make it easier to move to Office 365 and Azure Supports for faster migration (API

and ISV supports) Automate migration of virtual

machines to Azure (MS and ISVs products)

Drive shipping, Express Route and other new capabilities for enhanced hybrid scenario

1010 Key Takeaways (1-5)

Microsoft Wants You To Move To Office 365

The SharePoint Brand Is Becoming Less Important And Will Disappear Overtime

Microsoft Wants To Provide As Much Of The User Experience As

Possible

Hybrid Installations Are Viable Options

Migrating To The Cloud Is Getting Easier

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Embracing The New Features Is Important: Modernize The Way You Manage Knowledge

Enhanced Security Capabilities In Office 365

Office 365 Graph Is Everywhere

Machine Learning Will Change The Way You Work

Microsoft Is Changing, Microsoft Is Evolving

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12Key Takeaways

• Microsoft has made it clear that it wants the majority of its clients in their SaaS infrastructure.

• All future innovation comes to Microsoft cloud offerings long before they make it to the on premise product, and some never make it there (i.e. Delve, Office Videos, nextgen Portal, Yammer).

1 Microsoft Wants You To Move To Office 365

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• The SharePoint brand is being broken up more into discrete parts and being distributed across the platform.

• One example is Office 365 groups, which has various parts from SharePoint including integration from other server tools such as Exchange.

• Count on less of an emphasis on “SharePoint” and more and more on “Office 365.”, next gen portals.

• SharePoint Server 2016 release to focus on user experience (mobile), cloud inspired infrastructure, and compliance and reporting

2 The SharePoint Brand Is Becoming Less Important And Will Disappear Overtime

Key Takeaways

• In line with the drive to move clients to Office 365, Microsoft has made clear they want to provide the UX grid for all of their products.

• Your organization has to make a decision if the move to the cloud warrants the loss of a lot of control over the interface and ultimately much of the experience itself. Opportunity to create your own User Experience for Office 365

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3 Microsoft Wants To Provide As Much Of The User Experience As Possible

15Key Takeaways

• Microsoft wants to provide support for hybrid options for organizations that are reticent about the move to Office 365.

• A big investment is being made in SharePoint Server 2016 to support hybrid scenarios.

4 Hybrid Installations Are Viable Options

16Key Takeaways

• Microsoft has introduced new ways to migrate content to the cloud Migration APIs which increase throughput up to 30x Leverage Azure as an interim place to source content for

migration• Azure Express Route for Office 365

Dedicated virtual channel between your data center and Office 365 Less latency and better control on performance and security

5 Migrating To The Cloud Is Getting Easier

17Key Takeaways

• Leverage the new features to improve your productivity, security, compliance and reuse of knowledge

6 Embracing The New Features Is Important: Modernize The Way You Manage Knowledge

18Key Takeaways

• Security remains a big concerns of organizations looking at cloud services

7 Enhanced Security Capabilities In Office 365

19Poll

Has your position on security of Microsoft Cloud (Office 365/Azure) changed in the past 12 months?

20Key Takeaways

Office 365 Express Route

Customer LockBox

7 Enhanced Security Capabilities In Office 365

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• The Office Graph is gaining more and more emphasis from Microsoft. (Email and Yammer signals)

• There are new enhancements to Delve including new user profiles and new magazine articles.

• The Office Graph continues to expand all the time with new “signals.”

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22Key Takeaways

“Office Delve – Discovery exactly what you need when you need it.” ~MicrosoftMachine learning to map the relationships between people, content and interactions that occur across Office 365.

9 Machine Learning Will Change The Way You Work

23Key Takeaways

10 Microsoft Is Changing, Microsoft Is Evolving

24What Are The Impacts?

Should I Migrate or Rebuild?

Hybrid Cloud

When to move to Office 365

25When Are The Changes Taking Place?

• Public Beta Fall 2015• General Release Q2 2016 SharePoint

Server 2016

• Continuous updates• People Delve Profile enhancements Q2• Articles in People Profile Q3• InfoPedia and Knowledge Management Portal

Q1/Q2 2016

Office 365 Next Gen

• Azure Express Route, Q3 2015• DLP enhancements, Q3/Q4 2015

Security

26Resource To Learn More – blogs.office.com

• http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/27/quick-tour-of-office-365-recent-updates-and-whats-coming/

• http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/22/office-365-news-roundup-6/

• http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/20/recapping-yammer-highlights-and-key-takeaways-from-ignite/

What’s coming in the next for Office

365, with Julia White, GM for Office

365

Office 365 News Round Up

Yammer Highlights from Ignite

27What’s Next?

Will you upgrade?

Will you migrate to Office 365?

How will you make Office 365 work for

you?

Which platform makes most sense

Be cloud ready

New features = lots of opportunity

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