Collaborate - Engage - Accelerate

Driving the Digital Workplace with Office 365

Bill Ryan – Digital Workplace Architect

About Sync(d) Technologies

Founded in 2014 by consultants with deep expertise in

Enterprise Collaboration

Built to address the gap in Enterprise Collaboration in the

Office 365 Market

Specialists in SharePoint, Lync, Yammer, Advanced

Workflow, Business Process Optimization, and Power BI

Headquartered in Englewood, CO

Microsoft SMB Partner

Microsoft Cloud Partner

Certified MEC Facilitators

Certified SPMP Business Process Partner

Bill Ryan, Principal, Digital Workplace Architect

Broad IT career spanning 25+ Years

SharePoint Collaboration Specialist since 2005

Digital Workplace Blogger & Writer

CMSWire.com

PracticalCollaboration.blogspot.com

Microsoft Certified IT Professional

Microsoft BCSP Certifications

LOB+Search

Power BI

Certified Microsoft Office 365 Adoption Specialist

Certified Yammer Community Manager

Certified MEC Facilitator

Email: bill.ryan@syncdtechnologies.com

Twitter: @BillRyan61

Paradigm Shifts that are Driving Digital Transformation

High Speed Mobile

BYOD

Multiple Devices

Millennials and Gen X’ers

Corporate Globalization

Distributed Teams

Shorter Business Cycles

Need for Real Time Analytics

The 5 Pillars of the Digital Workplace

Cloud

Mobile

Collaboration

Enterprise Social

Business Intelligence

The Digital Workplace Defined

A collection of digital tools and processes that

allow employees to do their work from anywhere

Business processes that are designed to use

collaboration tools to enhance co-editing, version

control, synchronization, and advanced workflow

Unified Communications tools that allow

employees to engage with co-workers and

external partners on demand

Enterprise Social that enables team collaboration

across departments, groups, divisions, and

locations

Mobile access to these tools that allow employees

to work from any device or location

Document synchronization that enables editing on

any device from any location

SMB’s are Laser Focused on Digital Business

Cloud is the new IT infrastructure for SMBs

SMB IT staff are evolving into cloud managers

SMBs are recalibrating IT strategy and spending for a cloud/mobile world

The Internet of Things (IoT) is coming into focus

SMBs are reinventing marketing for the new buyer journey

KPIs trump ROI and TCO as the new “show me” metric

Analytics gets SMB-friendly with “bring your own data” and Self-Service

offerings

SMB’s are reimagining work – remote workers are the new norm

SMBs are placing a premium on the protection of data

SMBs are opting for an incremental, integrated business solutions approach

Sources:

Aberdeen Research

SMB Group

Gartner

Key Metrics Driving the Digital Workplace for SMB’s

67% of Small Business (1–99 employees) and 81% of Medium Business

(100–999 employees) say that technology solutions help them improve

business outcomes or run the business better

Just 19% of Small Business employ full-time dedicated IT staff

86% of Medium Businesses have internal IT staff

Typically IT generalists who lack expertise in newer technology

Little expertise in Cloud, Mobile, Collaboration, or Analytics

92% of SMBs are now using at least one cloud business solution

Small Business public cloud adoption will continue to significantly outpace

the private cloud

Medium Business will focus on a hybrid cloud approach

Sources:

Aberdeen Research

SMB Group

Gartner

The Office Platform – Fully Integrated Across the Office 365 Platform

Presence - The Key to Connected Engagement

OneDrive Synchronization – The Key to Contiguous Collaboration

Exchange Online – Cloud Based Email Communications

SharePoint Online – Document/Content Management in the Cloud

Yammer – Engage With Your Colleagues from Anywhere

Lync (Skype for Business) and Unified Communications

Office Delve – Machine Learning Applied to Office 365

Power BI – Access Reports in the Cloud using On-prem Data

Mobile Access – All Tools on any Device from Anywhere

Office 365 and The Digital Workplace

It’s not so much about the individual Office 365 Components

It’s about the Integrated Platform

Focus on how all the components work together

Cross functional integration is the key to productivity

SMB’s will use the tools they know - how they like to use

them

SMB’s will develop a working style based on need

Office 365 will continue to evolve quickly

Continuous feature changes with shorter release cycles

Machine Learning will be integrated into all components

Key Elements to Keep in Mind

SharePoint + SPMarketplace

Help your organization understand how SharePoint and SPMarketplace can enhance enterprise collaboration capability

Implement a fully functional Portal in a short timeframe with reduced cost using SPMarketplace Modules

Yammer + SharePoint

Advise on how to utilize Yammer with SharePoint to create People Centric Collaboration Workspaces

Advise Customers on how to Implement and Drive Adoption

Office Platform + Office 365

Teach Organizations to effectively use the Office Platform to integrate with SharePoint, Yammer, Lync, and Exchange

Teach Organizations to use Enterprise Search and Delve

PowerBI + SharePoint

Teach Organizations to integrate Power BI with SharePoint for dynamic reporting and analytics

Mobile Strategies

Help your organization understand how to integrate mobile collaboration into your business process

How Sync(d) Helps Drive the Digital Workplace

The Aberdeen Group - http://www.aberdeen.com

The Altimeter Group - http://www.altimetergroup.com

Brian Solis - http://www.briansolis.com/

Gartner – http://www.gartner.com

MIT Sloan Management Review - http://sloanreview.mit.edu/

Forrester Research – https://www.forrester.com

Dion Hinchcliffe - http://dionhinchcliffe.com/

CMSWire – http://www.cmswire.com

Resources for Digital Workplace Content