Chapter 30
Deciding Between On-Premise and Office 365
In This Chapter
Comparing Office 365 to a regular SharePoint site
What you can and can’t do in SharePoint Online
Designing an Office 365 pilot project
Successfully transitioning to the cloud
The cloud. It’s hard to image any bigger a buzzword in the technology realm today. Is it a magic bullet to reduce IT spending, make users more productive, and alleviate the amount of time and resources companies spend on maintaining servers and applications? Imagine if that were true . . .
Clearing Up Some Terms and Setting Expectations
On-premises is the term that Microsoft uses to describe the traditional SharePoint installation that sits in a company’s data center. This server is installed, configured, and maintained by the IT department. When something goes wrong, someone in the IT department must take a look at the server to figure out what’s going on. As SharePoint becomes a more mature product and is used throughout the company for mission-critical publishing, collaboration, workflows, and other business solutions, the amount of downtime ...
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