Overcoming the Barriers to Hybrid SharePoint

Christian BuckleyCollabTalk LLC, USA

Vesa Juvonen@VesaJuvonen

Eric Overfield@EricOverfield

Vlad Catrinescu@VladCatrinescu

Jussi Roine@JussiRoine

Hybrid Business Drivers

As SharePoint continues to evolve its footprint, companies are demanding flexible architectures to help them better meet internal and external collaboration needs.

• Reducing costs• Reducing headcount• Doing more with less• Focusing less on traditional IT activities and more on

activities that will help drive the business forward

Research Overviewhttp://hybrid-sp.collabtalk.com/

Research Sponsors

Research Background

• As collaboration moves from on-prem to the cloud, many organizations struggle with moving years of on-premises infrastructure and data to the cloud.

• There had been no accurate data as to how many customers are actively pursuing hybrid solutions as a strategy versus displacing on-prem environments with the cloud.

• It is unknown the reason why customers are not adopting the cloud version of SharePoint, and engaging this new product

Research Goals

• Estimate the market size of SharePoint Hybrid market

• Understand why customers remain on-premises

• Identify fears and concerns of moving SharePoint to the cloud

• Outline challenges for customers considering migrating to the cloud

• Understand how vendors and Microsoft are addressing these challenges

2017 2020

$3.2B $5.3B

Growth of Hybrid Market

Hybrid

32%

Hybrid

46%

2017

2020

Market by UsersHybrid Market Share

Mitigate Security and Customization Concerns

Customization Insights

21%Of users

experience

"inability or difficulty with customization“

Gartner reports that “Migration of customizations

used in on-premises

installations is the biggest

blocker to cloud migrations

of SharePoint.”

Jared Shockley, Senior Service Engineer at Microsoft

Security

Future of Hybrid?

Cloud Flexibility

Control of Data

Cost of Integration

SUMMARY

Microsoft ISVs/SIs End-Users

Focus marketing on security

of Hybrid space

Improve migration compatibility

Reinforce message of cloud security

Offer Hybrid and cloud solutions

Analyze and Optimize

Plan ahead/partner with ISVs/SIs

Vesa Juvonen@VesaJuvonen

Eric Overfield@EricOverfield

Vlad Catrinescu@VladCatrinescu

Jussi Roine@JussiRoine

Thank you to our panel!