Just wondering what your long term view is with regard to SharePoint in Office 365 vs SharePoint On-prem? Is it going to go like the water and power industries where everything is centralised and businesses that stay on-premises can’t compete due to economies of scale?
Or, do you think aspects such as security, availability, need for greater control, lack of functionality, heavy customizations will keep us using SharePoint on-premises for the foreseeable?
BTW, you should also have a read of ‘What are the reasons for staying on-premises in 2018?‘ for some further insight.
I’ll borrow an acronym for SharePoint on-prem environments -> FCC.
Flexibility for Customization and Control.
As much I like the new functionality or features that aren’t readily available from 365. There will be environments that will require the following for specific organizations:
- Stability i.e. don’t fix what isn’t broken,
- Flexibility to customize the platform as needed,
- Control the environment especially if regulatory bodies are involved i.e. testing/validation when changes occur.
Hybrid for me. There are many issues for companies who have already invested heavily in on-premise. I do not expect hybrid to be long term solution though because Microsoft have a track record of forcing clients towards their strategic platform That means Cloud. BTW watched a very nice video from Beau Cameron – awesome dude, respect – in which he showed how to create a site template (requiring many days, weeks even of effort) when it takes a few clicks to create a site template in SharePoint. I was in danger of missing the point which It was really interesting to see how you can use the Cloud components to build powerful solutions.