Wow, so this is an interesting article. We run primarily on-prem for actual business production work and have a ton of connections and processes built around that instance. For me the big one is the update problem.

We’ve had customers whose workflows were completely broken with updates to the cloud instance which presented tremendous problems and downtime. We’ve had similar issues with on-prem updates, but as the article says, you can roll them back or revert to a VM snapshot if possible.

Data connectivity is another issue with cloud. Creating those connections means you’re opening up something on the firewall even with APIs. There are tools to help with this but still, in a security conscience world you need to think twice about that. Risk – Reward!

By Yaroslav Pentsarskyy – “Is it time to migrate to SharePoint Online?” Have you asked yourself that question? If you work for an organization in manufacturing, finance, government or healthcare, chances are, your company is running SharePoint on-premises.

A few months ago, my firm ran an online study with employees from medium and large organizations across North America. A group of 200 volunteers participated in the study. Our goal was to learn about what collaboration technology these organizations use now and what their future plans looked like. 

The findings from the study provide insight into the strategies of other organizations in your same position.

Over 20% of our 200 study respondents from North American companies are running SharePoint on-premises. Of those 20% respondents:

• 62% said their organizations plan to stay with SharePoint on-prem.
• 15% said they plan to move to hybrid.
• 23% said they plan to move to SharePoint Online.

Almost 80% of respondents identified themselves as IT or leadership.

Next, we set out to learn what makes these organizations keep SharePoint on-prem. Read On: