Office 365 News & Articles

There have been a few notable announcements this week in the document management space. Office Web Apps 2013 is now available in SkyDrive, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for ECM for 2012 has been released, and Nuxeo is holding its annual conference. In addition, Concept Searching has announced that its conceptClassifier for SharePoint is available for Office 365.

What better way to start the day than by asking some of the best known SharePoint experts about SharePoint? This morning SharePoint Symposium started with a Pundit Debate in which Tony Byrne, Mary-Foley and Martin White shared their thoughts on SharePoint today and its impact on the technology sector. Here's what we learned.

 Enterprises are looking for improved security in their mobile products, and Microsoft is beefing-up its defenses by picking up PhoneFactor, a vendor of multi-factor authentication products to help secure your connections. 

This week, two months after unveiling the Preview of Office 2013, Microsoft has finally announced how much it will cost, KnowledgeTree takes a look at email as a collaboration tool, Alfresco releases a new syncing application, and M-Files tells us more about M-File 9.0.

If you thought Microsoft was just going to sit around and hope people would migrate to Office 365 all by themselves, think again. To help move Lotus Notes/Domino users across to Office 365 it has licensed Binary Tree’s (BT) migration solution. Let's have a look.

The days of Microsoft SharePoint being only a locally installed software product are over.

Secure cloud services provider Perimeter E-Security today released a new hosted version of its Archive Anywhere mailbox archive solution for Microsoft Office 365. Archive Anywhere is a cloud-based service designed to make it easy for users to view and search their entire mailbox archives anywhere, on any device.

Where better to learn about how people use Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Exchange Online / Office 365 than during Microsoft TechEd North America 2012? Symantec thought so too, which is why they surveyed more than 100 qualified respondents. What they found indicates that unstructured data is still a challenge for many organizations and that there is a need for third party archiving solutions to complement Exchange 2010, which doesn’t support Single Instance Storage.

It hardly seems like it, but it is a year since Steve Ballmer officially launched Office 365 and Microsoft wasn’t going to let the occasion go by without the announcement of some notable customer wins and a couple of other interesting tidbits about its traction in the market.

This week, it seems everyone is concerned about finding the right information in the right place. MetaVis makes its migration tools compatible with Office 365 for Government, Recommind adds a SharePoint module for Decisiv Search, DiscoverReady and Equivio extend their partnership, while QlikTech buys Expressor.

With broad adoption of SharePoint 2010 coupled with the business need to drive down costs and management overhead of information technology, many organizations are looking more closely at hosted versions of SharePoint -- both private and public cloud offerings, as well as Office365.

The battle between Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 rages on. Google has the upper hand today, with millions of businesses, government agencies and educational institutions as clients. But Microsoft, which has owned the desktop for decades, isn’t giving up without a fight.

The move to Office 365 -- and SharePoint online -- is getting more attractive every day. The functionality is there, the price is just about right, so why not? If you are considering a move to the cloud-based version of SharePoint, there are a few things you should consider in your migration planning.

Far be it from me to spread gossip and rumor BUT… well, yesterday when we took a look at the new upgrade to v2.1 of IBM’s SmartCloud, we came across a number of references to the fact that Google is building a c loud computing offering that is to compete with Amazon’s EC2 cloud.

Change control can be an issue if you’re managing a project largely using email. SharePoint Online contains robust out-of-the-box change control capabilities to help you keep project documentation manageable and clean.