{"id":961,"date":"2017-07-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inswwdev.azurewebsites.net\/au\/insights\/uncategorized\/why-office-365\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T01:00:00","slug":"why-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/insights\/geek-speak\/modern-workplace\/why-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Office 365?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-olir1p5p6Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Join David Young and Aaron Parker as they discuss Office 365 and\u00a0the secret behind why people are migrating to it.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-bottom: 15px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 40px; border-bottom: 1px solid #f16020;\">READ THE TRANSCRIPT HERE<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Young (D): Hey thanks for joining us today. Aaron it\u2019s been a long time since I saw you. Last time I think I saw you, you were headed back down under on a plane and now you\u2019re back. So good to see you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aaron Parker (A): Yeah the jet lag is\u2026slowly getting over the jet lag yeah<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D: I have heard that sometimes you can drink, and I\u2019ve got one around here, a Monster to get over that\u2026no<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">advertisement intended but I like to use those.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D: What\u2019s the biggest reason you see companies go on to office 365.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A: Cost! You know they have on-prem exchange servers that cost in terms of hardware, in terms of maintenance, got to patch those servers, need to make sure they\u2019re up and running. If I have downtime maybe my exchange environment is poorly managed. If I have downtime and impacts the entire business. So, they\u2019re moving to Office 365 to solve that challenge with on-prem exchange servers. It\u2019s also an office application licensing challenge as well. So, I want to get away from having to have continually, every three years, upgrade Office and the contracts that come along to actually have that licensing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D: I don\u2019t know about the accounting rules on where you\u2019re from but I know enough about it in the United States and I\u2019m an IT guy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A: Yes, it is confusing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D: But I know when I used to go talk to my CFO we would say Dave is this capital or this expense and I know with Office 365 the CFO\u2019s love the fact that it is an expense not capital yeah which means they get to write that off immediately as I spend the money versus having to amortize it over a certain amount of time. Are you seeing the same thing on your customer basis?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A: Yeah absolutely! And it\u2019s also moving\u2026you\u2019re moving to a user based consumption model so when we think about on-prem exchange and Office, it\u2019s more of a device based model or you know go out and purchase that every three years and it\u2019s a big expense to amortize over time and an organization that may shrink and grow as well can react a lot more quickly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D: Cool! And you bring up a very interesting point that I want to make sure I point out. I think this is a maturation of IT. Meaning you know at first like mail is hard to control we need to bring it in-house where we had control over the people that we\u2019re going to work on. I could tell them you\u2019re not going home and you\u2019re not getting paid until it\u2019s fixed and they would magically work on it but now you\u2019re just like my cable. I don\u2019t know when the last time was I called my cable company said my TV wasn\u2019t working, it\u2019s just always on, and from an end user perspective we expect the same thing out of Mail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A: It\u2019s really neat to see what Microsoft and Google and other providers have done to be able to provide a mail experience 24\/7. IT is no longer involved, which means from our company perspective I\u2019m not paying five people to run around and fix exchange servers, manage you know storage equipment etc etc, so I can imagine there\u2019s a huge savings there from a customer perspective also. Yeah things like what IT does to solve those storage problems give everyone a five hundred meg mailbox, one gig mailbox. I\u2019m going to move to office 365, I\u2019ve got a 50 gig, hundred gig mailbox but I can\u2019t get more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D: Did you know that I actually did the other day for Kevin, our CEO. I got him a bigger mailbox. They upped it to a terabyte. Lucky him, right? All right, well, hey it has been a pleasure. it\u2019s always good talking to you. Have a good day!<\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetdis_clearfix alignnone\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join David Young and Aaron Parker as they discuss Office 365 and\u00a0the secret behind why people are migrating to it. READ THE TRANSCRIPT HERE David Young (D): Hey thanks for joining us today. Aaron it\u2019s been a long time since I saw you. Last time I think I saw you, you were headed back down&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/insights\/geek-speak\/modern-workplace\/why-office-365\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Office 365?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern-workplace","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}