Office 365 Saturday 2014 - Office 365 the year in review and next year too

Editor's Notes

• #5: When I think about Office 365 and the year 2014 the first thing that comes to mind is: Awesome! This was an amazing year for one of the biggest cloud offerings in the world and one of the most important, and profitable, services from Microsoft. Let’s just take a look at the the features that were released since 2013 until now.
• #6: This is amazing right? Power BI, Office for iPad, OneDrive for Business, Office Lens, App builder, Office 365 themes, Delve! The list goes on and on. This is a major milestone for a company such as Microsoft that really stepped away from the past and moved into a new and exciting direction. Let’s be honest, they don’t have a choice. The world is and has been changing rapidly over the last few years.
• #7: So much has happened in the last 5 years that has had a profound impact on our lives and the manner in which people work. Organizations are seeing new returns as well as new challenges that spring from these changes. Employees expect the organization they work at to respond to the changes, and to offer modern options for doing their work and remaining productive. And organizations that do respond, expect new levels of value and productivity from their employees and business systems. As the availability of Analytics and tools to derive insight become pervasive and move from the back office to the front office and even remote users, Office is playing a substantive role in the delivery of analytics everywhere. Phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, sensors and Machine generated data – there is no end to the devices that are delivering content to users, and information to the enterprise And at the same time all this freedom and expansion is opening new avenues, the need for control, security and compliance has never been greater. We know, this is the world in which you live. We know this is where you make your mark. And we know that as the systems move to the cloud, the work you do is changing.
• #8: This quote from Nadella really shows that Microsoft opened their eyes and looked at the market. There is more then Microsoft out there, people use Apple product such as Mac books, iPads and iPhones. Android smart devices, Dropbox and so on. People want to use these devices within their work life and Microsoft can’t close their eyes anymore and ignore this change and future of multiple devices. People need to get their work done, anywhere, anytime and on any device. Microsoft needs to enable productivity with these devices by delivering Microsoft services through Apps.
• #44: Auditing: No auditing system in place, to get an overview of all your end-users sharing of document with external users. You have to visit each site, per colleague, to view what documents are shared and with whom.
• #46: My advise is to use OneDrive for Business but you have to decide if you want to use the offline Sync feature. In case you do please do a POC: POC: Start with a small group of people, test extensively with multiple devices, explain the situation and make sure no errors appear. Does it work? Go for a wider release. Delve: Delve is a powerful new system within Office 365 to stay up-to-date about interesting documents shared by colleagues. Delve works with OneDrive for Business
• #49: Breaking silo’s Connecting people with each other Unify people over different workloads Exchange & Onedrive for Business
• #79: We still really work within silo’s these days
• #80: The Office graph connects the dots between the silo’s and brings everyting together
• #83: The Office Graph is a storage layer that connects all the activities together