![]() ![]() Unless they are willing to adopt and embrace new productivity tools and new ways of working, then many of the benefits of Office 365 will be lost. Moving to Office 365 impacts every user in your organization. Replicating the same functionality on-premises would be very complex, risky, and costly to maintain on an ongoing basis.īy offloading all of that integration and support to Microsoft, Office 365 allows your organization’s IT staff to focus more on delivering valuable business support, instead of keeping infrastructure running. Office 365 is a suite of tightly integrated services – Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business Online, and more. Similarly, the benefits of Office 365 are often understated when only a cursory analysis is performed. In fact, for some organizations, the on-premises infrastructure does appear to cost less on that basis.īut often times people don’t take into account the hidden costs of running on-premises software, such as power consumption, labor costs to support and maintain the systems, and the costs of compliance with regulatory requirements. If you take the cost of 500 Office 365 licenses, and compare it to the cost of server hardware and software licensing, there may be little difference. The cost of Office 365 is not a straight apples to apples comparison with on-premises infrastructure. If that happens, people will be disappointed, and may even demand that you off-board from Office 365 back to an on-premises solution just to reduce costs. While there are often savings to be had when compared to legacy, on-premises models, it would be unwise to go into it with a false assumption that Office 365 will cost you less. Moving to Office 365 is not always about saving money. While that may be true, an Office 365 migration project will often fail if it’s missing one of these key elements. Maybe the decision has already been made, and you’re going to move no matter what. The trend is clear – cloud services are growing in popularity, and fewer organizations are running on-premises infrastructure for their email and collaboration. But if you’re going to migrate your organization to Office 365, it’s important to build a strong business case first. Yes, more and more organizations are moving to Office 365 every day, there’s no denying that. The honest truth is that Office 365 is not for everyone. ![]()
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