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1 IBM Connections vs. O365 Episode III Jan Valdman,

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3 About me

The story of this presentation Episode I Boston, Stuttgart 2015

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4 The story of this presentation Episode I Boston, Stuttgart m-connections-vs-office views Episode II Toronto, Prague m-connections-vs-office-365- episode-ii 2000 views

5 Remarks The opinions in this deck are my own and do not necessarily reflect or equal to any opinions of Whitesoft or IBM. All information about O365 and Sharepoint is based on my own end-user experience. All conclusions are based on my personal experience using common, regular environments and accounts, both product are considered to be in the out-of-box configuration. I am not an expert on O365. Cloud offerings change very quickly so the information might be outdated when you read it. Screenshots taken in June This deck does not compare the products completely but only from a social collaboration perspective. The information is provided as-is. I can not guarantee that the information in this deck is precise, complete, correct and otherwise valid. I believe that you find this comparison true and useful however I can not accept responsibility for any of your future decisions. If you do not like this policy, do not read further. Copyright information

6 Competitors (?)

7 Features & functions comparison does not work

8 O365 vs Connections

9 Yammer vs. Connections

10 Sharepoint vs Connections vs Wrike(???)

11 Yammer vs Connections vs Wrike

12 Connections vs Yammer

13 How do they compare each other?

14 Introduction There are good stuff and bad stuff in Microsoft Office 365 In this deck you will learn why IBM Connections is better than O365 O365 is not social

15 What does SOCIAL mean? Social is to be in touch with colleagues, to communicate, to collaborate, to share ideas in order to get my work done faster and better

16 that means How people get updated regarding what s happening and stay focused To understand relationships between people To collaborate efficiently on files To share knowledge and experience To engage young employees How to enhance internal communication

17 What I have learned

18 What companies do and say Companies having (!) O365 buy IBM Connections we could do the same using OneDrive, SharePoint, Yammer and but we like that in Connections everything is at a single place

19 What companies do and say I know an IT company who sells and implements SharePoint that decided for Connections for internal use well, we sell Sharepoint but I d never implement it for our company. It is far too complex

20 Voice of the market Czech CIO Magazine 6/2015 Infoworld Review: Office 365 fails at collaboration Source

21 What analysts say While many organizations have moved to O365, the primary reason for doing so was to embrace Exchange Online Michael Sampson, in his latest book

22 Do you want to pay 80 % more for your Office?

23 A message from Amy Hood, Microsoft CFO

24 Why customers love IBM Connections?

25 How IBM Connections works

26 Everything at one place

27 Everything is at one place

28 Everything is at one place Files Your network Communities U P D A T E S Blogs Forums Wikis Activities

29 A file can be shared/linked everywhere

30 A file can be shared/linked everywhere In community In a status update In a blog In a wiki In a forum

31 Pain points in O365

32 I have never heard We are more innovative because of O365 O365 connects people within our enterprise Our users love O365 (such a poor life I live)

33 On the other hand, I have heard O365 is complex The tools are not integrated Why we should use several separated tools to achieve this or that?

34 This is what O365 users see after sign-in

Can you imagine Connections like this? Hi, Jan.

Sign in to IBM Connections on your Mac to install.

35 Can you imagine Connections like this? Hi, Jan. Install desktop client for IBM Connections. Got a Mac? Sign in to IBM Connections on your Mac to install. Smartphone or tablet? Get IBM Connections on your devices. Collaborate with IBM Connections Home Profiles Communities Files Activities Updates Wikis Blogs Forums Bookmarks Metrics

36 Does it sound familiar? Until now, most PC software was designed for individuals using individual PCs. But today, more and more people are working in teams on networked PCs that require a new kind of software. Software that lets them quickly share ideas and information no matter where, when or how they work.

37 Does it sound familiar? Lotus Notes advertisement from 1991 (!) Is Microsoft 25 years behind? Source

38 No, they are only 5-10 years behind In my country, MSFT nowadays speaks about Collaboration Working from any place using any device Millenials #newwaytowork etc.

39 They can t even sell O365/social well Yammer Planner Teams

40 Reason #1 - Complexity

41 Complexity is the show stopper Which tool to use? How to fit everything together. Inconsistent GUI and user experience SharePoint complexity

42 What O365 users need

43 What O365 users might use (if trained)

44 and what O365 users get

45 Does it make sense to pile up features?

46 Example: files in Yammer

47 files in OneDrive

48 files in in SharePoint

49 And now in Teams

50 ..which are (not?) in Sherepoint

51 In general Files are stowed in multiple silos Overlapping functionalities, inconsistent UX No social capabilities Therefore they need Delve and OfficeGraph technology to stich everything together

52 When to use what in O365 Seriously meant WP 75 pages

53 When to use what in O365

54 Complexity kills productivity & adoption

55 IBM Connections just enough tools

56 Reason #2 - Roadmap

57 SharePoint is not evolving (much)

58 So where is the innovation? Delve? Video? Groups? Planner? Teams?

59 Social/collaboration strategy in O $1.2 Billion Yammer buy 2013 Yammer! 2014 Groups! 2015 Yammer! 1/2016 MS layed off its entire team of Yammer Customer Success Managers (CSMs) 2/2016 MS enabled Yammer for all customers 11/2016 MS introduced Teams

60 Yammer compared to IBM Connections

61 O365 now has Teams Built on top of Sharepoint a feature, not a product (unlike Slack)

62 Pick the right tool minutes hours days months chat forum blog wiki

63 How much is Yammer integrated? Is it integrated with OneDrive? Is it integrated with SharePoint?

64 Opinion: Yammer is dead man walking $1.2 billion mistake?

65 Unclear roadmap, limited innovation

66 Reason #3 Notifications

67 I am a member of 76 communities

68 And I am still updated in a single stream

How can you follow SharePoint Sites Email?

69 How can you follow SharePoint Sites ??? Delve? The SharePoint Following page? Yammer?

70 Reason #4 The Theory

71 The collaboration theory coordination cooperation collaboration harmony smooth processes co-created value synergy convergent outcomes divergent outcomes

72 The collaboration theory missing/weak in O365 cooperation collaboration harmony smooth processes co-created value synergy convergent outcomes divergent outcomes

73 Without coordination, it collapses synergy convergent outcomes co-created value collaboration divergent outcomes

74 Does not work in theory, does not work inpractice

75 Conclusions

77 Let us do some math More collaboration = more innovation More tools = more collaboration More tools = more innovation

78 The three collaboration killers

79 O365 vs. social collaboration Can not work BY DESIGN - see the theory Customers use mostly Exchange & OneDrive There are some good features but isolated in silos Instead of making the solutions more integrated, Microsoft adds more and more stuff (will Teams help?)

80 Good to know Customers do not buy O365 to foster collaboration but to use Outlook/Exchange, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint Even O365 customers are interested in IBM Connections

81 A side-by side comparison In Connections, everything is simple, integrated, straightforward and transparent for end users Business users are selfsufficient to setup and manage everything themselves In O365, features are disintegrated, complex and hidden from the users You need experienced (and expensive) consultants to set up and maintain Sharepoint sites

82 Remember There are more than 365 reasons to use IBM Connections

Thank You! Jan Valdman jan.valdman@whitesoft.

83 Thank You! Jan Valdman WhiteBots For IBM Connections Many thanks to people who helped me to discuss and validate my findings and ideas.

I will also remind you for all overdue items.

84 Bots for hire! Robert Reminder Hi, I am Robert. I can check all your to-dos in IBM Connections Activities and send you an reminder once their deadline approaches (3 days before, 1 day before) and on the due date. I will also remind you for all overdue items. What s even better, I will notify everybody who has been appointed a task by you, so hopefully you will never wait for your colleagues to finish their tasks. Just add me as a member of any Activity where you need reminders. Edward External Hi, my name is Edward. I can make your files shareable with external users. You know, such feature is sometimes needed when you have forgoten to click THAT checkbox during file upload Or you may change your mind and need to share some files externally later? Just share a file or folder with me and I will make them yellow

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