Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Choose between SharePoint Cloud IaaS & SaaS

Take this survey to get answered for all your questions and decided to move on either to IaaS (Hosting SharePoint in Azure Vm's) or SaaS (SharePoint Online in O365)


Questions
Answers
Do you have more functionality that would require heavy customization in SharePoint? Or Do you have many custom solutions already in SharePoint?
Yes / No
Do you have trained SharePoint engineers in place (Developers, Administrators, architects)
Yes / No
Do you need to deliver SharePoint content to external users, systems, customers/partners?
Yes /  No
Do you use SSRS, Performance Point, BCS, and Search heavily in your SharePoint sites?
Yes / No
Do you have many 3rd party solutions (full trust deployments) deployed in SharePoint farm or planning to have or build many full trust codes?
Yes /  No
Do you require a highly customized look & feel, branding – navigation for your SharePoint sites
Yes / No
Do you have infrastructure capability, process and governance in place to manage SharePoint applications, Disaster recovery..etc?
Yes / No
Do you already use or host any applications in Azure? Or any other cloud providers
Yes / No
Do you have any restrictions to move on to cloud because of corporate regulations, compliance..etc?
Yes / No


What is the outcome from this survery
1. If you get "Yes" as an answer for most of your questions, SharePoint IaaS is best option to chooose
2. If you get "No" as an answer for most of your questions, SharePoint Online (SaaS) is best option to stick
3. If you get equal amount of "Yes" and "No", then think of consolidating the applications and plan for a Hybrid Model.



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