Is it Time to Say Goodbye to SharePoint On-Premises?

"Is it time to migrate to SharePoint Online?" Have you asked yourself that question? If you work for an organization in manufacturing, finance, government or healthcare, chances are, your company is running SharePoint on-premises.

A few months ago, my firm ran an online study with employees from medium and large organizations across North America. A group of 200 volunteers participated in the study. Our goal was to learn about what collaboration technology these organizations use now and what their future plans looked like. 

The findings from the study provide insight into the strategies of other organizations in your same position.

What Data Tells Us

Over 20% of our 200 study respondents from North American companies are running SharePoint on-premises. Of those 20% respondents:

• 62% said their organizations plan to stay with SharePoint on-prem.
• 15% said they plan to move to hybrid.
• 23% said they plan to move to SharePoint Online.

Almost 80% of respondents identified themselves as IT or leadership.

Next, we set out to learn what makes these organizations keep SharePoint on-prem.

Related Article: SharePoint On-Premises Goes Into Preview, Facebook Outlines 'Metaverse' and More News

Why SharePoint Customers Opt to Stay On-Premises

In a follow up to the study, we asked a sample group of our customers and partners to share why they chose to stay on-prem. Here are the top reasons we heard:

• Heavy technology investment over the years created a dependency on SharePoint on-premises.
• Compliance can make it prohibitively expensive or complex to store data in the cloud.
• Some customizations are not available in SharePoint Online. Few examples include:

For more information check this popular resource.

Article source: https://article-realm.com/article/Computers/Software/25777-Is-it-Time-to-Say-Goodbye-to-SharePoint-On-Premises.html