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The Microsoft and Portal Solutions Office 365 Roadshow: A Look Back
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Digital Workplace Today is a podcast bringing you the latest trends and top insights of the digital workplace world.
On this podcast, COO Dale Tuttle joins us on the Digital Workplace Today Podcast to talk about the recent "roadshow" events that Portal Solutions held jointly with Microsoft in southern Maryland and Northern Virginia over the last month. The central theme of the roadshow events was using Office 365 to its maximum potential.
Dale and I look back at all of the presentations and discussions that took place, the feedback we received, and we dive deeper into some of the capabilities of Office 365.
Listen to this episode to hear it all, or read the show notes for an overview of the conversation and links to some of the key items we discussed.
SHOW NOTES
A Brief Overview of the Roadshow Events
Each roadshow started out with a keynote talk by Microsoft, followed by presentations by Dale, our Director of Advisory Services Jill Hannemann, and our CEO Daniel Cohen-Dumani.
We discussed getting started with Office 365, how to get the most out of the complete capabilities of Office 365, what are some best practices when it comes to cloud governance, developing an overall cloud strategy road map for your organization, and how turnkey intranet solutions like OneWindow can bring everything together in a seamless interface.
What is Discussed in the Podcast?
This podcast is wide ranging, but here are a number of things that are discussed:
- Considerations before starting with Office 365:
- Why a hybrid environment is necessary during the transition to a cloud intranet and how to plan for this.
- Timing your migration to maximize cost savings and avoid unnecessary cost increases.
- What license options are available for Office 365 depending on an organizations's needs and which features come with which licenses.
- Office 365 Features:
- For those with data analytics needs, Dale reminds us that Power BI integration is a capability of Office 365, and in fact a trial version comes free with all Office 365 packages to showcase some of Power BI's abilities.
- The ability to use SharePoint in Office 365 for simultaneous document collaboration.
- Getting Started with Office 365:
- The starting of the journey: migration of email and Lync, which Microsoft handles for free, then the migration of SharePoint, which Portal Solutions assists with.
- Learning to use the tools - a concern that is cropping up more and more as organizations make the transition to Office 365.
- Microsoft helps with much of the technical aspects, while partners like Portal Solutions focus on leveraging the features/solutions for clients.
- The Office 365 waffle!
- How turnkey intranet solutions like OneWindow transform Office 365 to bring many features together into a single interface, and eases the dilemma of trying to leverage all of the different capabilities.
- Dale's top three roadshow takeaways.
Listen for More…
Listen to the full podcast to hear our full conversation with Dale. Learn about the waffle, and discover Dale's big roadshow event takeaways!
WISH LIST ITEM OF THE WEEK
The one thing Dale wishes Microsoft would do next is......make the partner incentive programs easier to understand. "I have a PhD, and I can't figure this stuff out!"
In all seriousness, Dale says that it would be great if Microsoft explained the incentives in plain English, to go along with the more detailed legal-style documentation that typically is provided to partners and can be tough to digest.
DON'T FORGET...
If you missed our last episode, head over and listen to our conversation with Jill Hannemann, Director of Advisory Services at Portal Solutions, as we talked about the "Top 5 Office 365 and SharePoint Governance MIstakes". In the podcast prior to that, we talked all about workflows with Tatiana Baquero - Senior Knowledge Management Consultant at Portal Solutions.
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