As mainstream support ends for SharePoint 2010 with the release of SharePoint 2016, many organizations are looking at options for moving forward. One option for moving forward is to move up, to Office 365 and SharePoint Online, taking advantage of all the benefits of the cloud.
One challenge, however, with moving to the cloud is that many businesses have invested heavily over the years in custom sites and portals on SharePoint 2010 that deliver vibrant intranet portals and powerful applications using server-based web parts and custom branding.
Much of this will not transfer to the new SharePoint Online architecture, meaning that organizations will not be able to take advantage of the Office 365 Ecosystem, where all components like SharePoint and Microsoft Office are available in one central place.
End users will not settle for basic SharePoint, and many small- to medium-size businesses do not have the budget nor the resources to rebuild everything. How do you get access to all the cool new capabilities without starting from scratch?
You could hire a consulting firm (again) to build it, but this might cost $100,000s and take several months to complete. Many vendors do not have the expertise to build custom applications “correctly,” so that they are not impacted by Office 365 platform changes. When these applications are not built correctly, they will stop operating the next month, when Microsoft changes or updates Office 365.
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The other, and more affordable, option is for SMBs to leverage out-of-the-box portals and application templates. These flexible application templates give users the level of feature, function, and ease-of-use they are used to.
By choosing the right application templates, ones that are Office 365 and SharePoint native, organizations will also be able to use SharePoint power user skills to quickly modify the templates to their specific needs.
SP Marketplace is one vendor that offers Office 365 and SharePoint native application templates. Unlike many other vendors that tried to transfer their SharePoint On-premise offerings, we began by designing our solutions on Office 365 from the very start in 2012.
Our products went through the change from 2010 to 2013 on Office 365, and continue to evolve today with the new Office 365 Ecosystem. We have a deep understanding of the cloud and offer 11 modules that are part of an overall site structure and anchored by an intranet home portal at the top.
The templates are Office 365 “future proof” because they have a “native” Office 365 look and feel, a responsive user interface, and are 100% customizable using standard SharePoint.
These templates also are designed to fit into the Office 365 Ecosystem and feel like a natural part of the platform. And, they already integrate with Office 365 features, such as Delve, Skype for Business, and Groups.
Don’t shortchange your company by not moving to Office 365 and SharePoint Online because of the challenges. Modernize your custom SharePoint environment by starting with accelerator templates, customize and migrate your content from 2010. It will make the move to the cloud seem like a gift rather than challenge.
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by Darrell Trimble via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community
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