CLOUD INTRANETS ON

THE ENTERPRISE SKYLINE

ABOUT US

SPEAKERS

Brett JohnsonOffice365 Technical

Specialist

Microsoft, UK

Melvin LancelotHead of Alliances, Presales

Ralph James Engagement Manager

Sam HassaniPrincipal Consultant (MCM)

Marwan TarekHead of Consulting (MVP)

AGENDA

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Why consider the cloud?

Cloud Intranets overview – the art of the possible

Coffee break

Office365 under the hood

Microsoft roadmap

Q & A

WHY CONSIDER THE CLOUD?

1 billionsmartphones, 4 years

ahead of predictions

50%of enterprise customers

are “on the road” to cloud

TRENDS IMPACTING THE WAY WE WORK

For the first time in modern

history, workplace

demographics now span

3 generations

Many of the world’s largest and most recognizable

global brands run on Microsoft’s cloud productivity

services.

41 of the

Interbrand Top 100

Each year customers of Microsoft’s cloud

productivity services…

Fly 222 millionpassengers

Build

6millionautomobilesin the United States alone

Serve 27 billionmeals

Sell

16 billioncans of soda

Make billioncups of coffee4

OFFICE 365 | WHAT IS IT?

Latest productivity services running in Microsoft’s cloud

AZURE | WHAT IS IT?

CUSTOMER

SERVICE

PROVIDER

WINDOWS

AZURE

1 CONSISTENT

PLATFORM

Journey to the Cloud

“Leverage the strengths of both parts while

minimizing the components’ weaknesses”

+ =HybridOnline Azure IaaS/ On-

premises

CLOUD CONSIDERATIONS

CONSISTENCY

LIFT & SHIFT

REGULATORY

TRUST/CONTROL

COMPLIANCE

USER

EXPERIENCE

SUMMARY

1. Now is the time to define the cloud strategy

for your organisation

2. Understand the blockers that are holding

back your adoption of cloud technology

3. Set your success criteria

CLOUD INTRANETS OVERVIEW

The art of the possible

BUILDING A MODERN INTRANET

PersonalisedMobile SocialUX

Mobile is the “new face of engagement” for employees.

Mobile’s unintended consequences

BYOD

Multi-platform clients

Multi-device confusion

Apps vs Web

Complex technology stack

MOBILE

Communicating with Colleagues

Sharing and reviewing documents

Promoting a new initiative

Finding an expert

More informative than entertaining

Transparency among team members

SOCIAL

Bring your intranet to

life with dynamic

conversations

Best-in class web

publishing portal

Communicate in

real-time

Stay connected

from any device

Response to the Dynamics CRM activity show up on the Yammer feed

Self Service BI Portals DashboardsData Visualisations

Deliver BI Quickly and

Economically

Rapidly Deliver

Insights

Communicate & Keep

Teams in Sync

1 2 3

1 in 4 enterprise customers on Office 3651 Billion Office Users

Analyze Visualize Share Find

Q&A

MobileDiscover

Scalable | Manageable | Trusted

DEMO – MODERN INTRANET

UX, Social, Mobile, Visualisations

CLOUD CONTINUUM

CONTROL

CO

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FF

ICIE

NC

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On-premise – SharePoint

- SQL SeverValue Prop:• Full h/w control – size/scale

• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale

Value Prop:• On-Demand Infrastructure

• Direct migration of existing apps

• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale

IaaS – SharePoint

- SQL Server

Value Prop:• Auto HA, Fault-Tolerance

• Friction-free scale

• Self-provisioning, mgmt @ scale

• Management Ease

SaaS – Office365

HYBRID MODEL - GUIDANCE

Hybrid

On-premises

Online

Azure (IaaS)

• Increase employee adoption

• Understand your investment

in SharePoint

• Understand who is using it

and for what

• Align SharePoint usage to

business goals

• Measure Employee

Collaboration

• Support upgrade decision

BREAK

OFFICE 365 “UNDER THE HOOD”

Insights into the Office 365 underlying infrastructure

April May June July August September October November December January

485% User Growth Since April

Not Trials. Not Tire Kickers.

Real, Paying Customers.

15,342

Active User Growth – Tenant X

37,868Active User Growth – Tenant Y

PDF

33%

Word

31%

Excel

19%

PowerPoint

4%

Email

4%Other

9%

400+ Petabytes

400+ Petabytes

99.75%

99.80%

99.85%

99.90%

99.95%

100.00%

Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14

SharePoint Online Availability

SEPTEMBER INCIDENT

SEPTEMBER INCIDENT

Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14

Daily Active Users Paging Escalations

Human error

Change

Telemetry

CFE

SQL

Sources of Missed Minutes Ungraceful Disconnected

Too slow, with too much built-up entropy

Step 1Deploy a target farm. The new VMs have the latest SharePoint bits, security patches, etc.

NLB

Step 2Dual-mount the target farm to also read from the same databases

Split SiteMap from ConfigDBto eliminate need for SiteMaprebuild

NLB

Step 3Route traffic for synthetic tenants to the target farm and monitor farm health

Step 4Gradually route traffic for customer tenants to the target farm

NLB

Step 5Tear down old source farm

NLB

FastSeamlessNLBNLB

12hOnly

Upgrade

Every EveryCritical fixes and security

patches

New features and security

patches

Patching

2w 6mo

24h

Upgrade

2wEvery EveryCritical fixes

and security patches

New features and security

patches

Patching

Safety

Speed

Merlin & JobletsAutomation prevents human error, which was aleading cause of downtime

Code doesn’t take coffee breaks. Automation can remove time spent idling

A safe way to allow human intervention when automation needs a push

May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb

2.5x reduction in manual touches

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