Organizations considering a move to the cloud are engaged in an ongoing struggle between maintaining local control over security, functionality, and manageability or sacrificing local control to capitalize on the myriad of benefits cloud computing offers. Understandably, this can make it difficult to determine if or when a SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online hybrid solution will really provide value.
Join Perficient as we explore several optimal hybrid solution scenarios, and the benefits that can be realized by designing and implementing a solution that encompasses the best of both worlds.
2. Agenda
• Who is Perficient
• What is SharePoint Hybrid
• SharePoint Online strengths
• Workloads well suited for cloud
• Best practices
• Examples in the wild
• Questions & Answers
3. Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout
North America.
We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate business
processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more agile
enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.
About Perficient
4. • Founded in 1997
• Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
• 2013 revenue ~$373 million
• Major market locations throughout North America
• Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus,
Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax, Houston, Indianapolis, Los
Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City,
Northern California, Philadelphia, Southern California, St.
Louis, Toronto and Washington, D.C.
• Global delivery centers in China, Europe and India
• >2,100 colleagues
• Dedicated solution practices
• ~85% repeat business rate
• Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
• Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards
Perficient Profile
5. BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Business Intelligence
Business Process Management
Customer Experience and CRM
Enterprise Performance Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Experience Design (XD)
Management Consulting
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Business Integration/SOA
Cloud Services
Commerce
Content Management
Custom Application Development
Education
Information Management
Mobile Platforms
Platform Integration
Portal & Social
Our Solutions Expertise
7. Presenters
Matt Barman is a client director in
Perficient's Microsoft practice. Matt has
extensive experience across
technology consulting and in recent
years has focused on SharePoint and
cloud-based solutions. He leverages
his experience in project management
and business analysis to identify and
plan complex technology projects
based on sound business decisions.
Jason Bell is a senior solution
architect in Perficient's Microsoft
practice. Jason leads SharePoint
2013 client engagements with a
focus on SharePoint Online and has
25 years of experience in industries
including healthcare, utilities,
financial services, telecom, legal,
and all levels of government.
8. Our Microsoft Expertise
Perficient’s Microsoft National Business Unit has a
strong partnership with Microsoft and is one of their
premier partners. We have tremendous investment in
all Microsoft technologies:
• 12+ years of experience
• 450+ industry-leading consultants
• 500+ launched sites
• 520,000+ hours
• 40+ sites on SharePoint 2013
Deep experience in SharePoint 2013:
• Experience with complex, global customers
• Full life-cycle implementations
• Strategy & business value assessment
• User-centered design approach
• Social collaboration & integration
• Architecture & enterprise security
• Implementation & production support
9. Methodology
Approach to Problem Solving
Start With the Need:
• Get the user to tell you the problem, not the solution
• Easy to jump into the technology, but don’t
• If you cannot explain why a user is asking for this, then you don’t know enough
Eliciting Requirements:
• Requirements can start only after you understand the needs
• When you hear “requirements” it’s hard not to think about this big, formal list
• Think of real people doing real things – personas and scenarios
• No one format is correct
• Use tools to help capture and validate the requirements with the users
10. Methodology
Solving Problems with Consistency
Waterfall
• Good for estimation when you need to know how long and how much
Ongoing Management Strategies
• Evolution of a solution is just as important as its construction
Agile
• Good for ongoing evolution of products
• Requires constant communication with users
11. SharePoint Hybrid
A hybrid SharePoint deployment can prove to be a useful deployment
scenario when looking to run certain workloads in SharePoint Online, but
maintain others running in a SharePoint on-premises deployment as part of a
longer term migration strategy or otherwise.
Microsoft has three topologies for SharePoint hybrid solutions:
– One-way outbound
– One-way inbound
– Two-way bidirectional
What is SharePoint Hybrid?
12. SharePoint Hybrid Options
One-way outbound topology
MICROSOFT DATA CENTER INTERNET INTRANET
SharePoint Online CANNOT
QUERY SharePoint Server
2013
SharePoint Online
Site collection
Search portal:
Local search
results ONLY
Search: One-way outbound
BCS: Not supported
Duet: Not supported
SharePoint Server 2013
CAN QUERY SharePoint
Online
Primary web
application
Search portal:
Local + Remote
search results
Outbound
Inbound
Office 365 Tenant SharePoint Server
2013
Local Local/Remote
From on-premises: On-premises SharePoint
Server 2013 users can see both local and remote
search results.
From SharePoint Online: Users of the SharePoint
Online Search portal can see only local results.
The on-premises SharePoint Server 2013
farm connects to SharePoint Online.
13. SharePoint Hybrid Options
One-way inbound topology
From on-premises: On-premises SharePoint
Server 2013 users can see only local search
results.
From SharePoint Online: Users of the
SharePoint Online Search portal can see both
local and remote results.
MICROSOFT DATA CENTER INTERNET INTRANET
SharePoint Online CAN
QUERY SharePoint Server
2013
SharePoint Online
Site collection
Search portal:
Local search
results ONLY
Search: One-way inbound
BCS: Supported
Duet: Supported
SharePoint Server 2013
CANNOT QUERY
SharePoint Online
Primary web
application
Office 365 Tenant SharePoint Server
2013
PERIMETER
NETWORK
Reverse
proxy
CUSTOMER NETWORK
Outbound
Inbound
Local
Search portal:
Local + Remote
search results
Local/Remote
SharePoint Online connects to an on-
premises SharePoint Server 2013 farm
through a reverse proxy device.
14. SharePoint Hybrid Options
Two-way (bidirectional) topology
From on-premises: On-premises SharePoint
Server 2013 users can see both local and remote
results.
From SharePoint Online: Users of the
SharePoint Online Search portal can see both
local and remote results.
Extranet users: If you configure extranet
authentication services, extranet users can log in
remotely with an on-premises Active Directory
account and use all available hybrid functionality.
The on-premises SharePoint Server 2013
farm connects to SharePoint Online.
SharePoint Online connects to an on-
premises SharePoint Server 2013 farm
through a reverse proxy device.
MICROSOFT DATA CENTER INTERNET INTRANET
SharePoint Online
Site collection
Search: Bidirectional
BCS: Supported
Duet: Supported
Primary web
application
Office 365 Tenant SharePoint Server
2013
PERIMETER
NETWORK
Reverse
proxy
CUSTOMER NETWORK
Outbound
Inbound
Search portal:
Local + Remote
search results
Local/Remote
Search portal:
Local + Remote
search results
Local/Remote
15. Considerations
Hybrid is two SharePoint farms, which raises numerous issues to be considered:
• Global navigation
• Social disconnect
• Followed on-premises content is not surfaced in the cloud
• Activity does not span both environments
• Branding
• Taxonomy and managed metadata
• Content type syndication
• Custom line of business apps
What Does This Mean?
16. Ideal Cloud Workloads
Where is the Right Place to Start?
SharePoint Online is ideal for these workloads :
• Collaboration
• Partner Access License (PAL)
• Information Rights Management
• Email
• Unstructured Data
• OneDrive
• Yammer
17. Best Practices
What is Being Done in the Market?
Leverage what is ideal for SharePoint Online :
• Use Yammer
• Collaborate internally and externally
• Leverage the flexibility of the PAL
• Secure your information with IRM
• Move Unstructured Data to OneDrive
18. Best Practices
Leverage the Power of SharePoint Search
Surface content from On-Premises Surface content from Online
20. Case Study
Global Medical Equipment Manufacturing Company
Client background:
• Existing investment in both SharePoint on-premises and Office 365
• Global organization with heavy compliance needs
Client goals:
• Keep internal content contained and more formally regulated
• Open up solution for collaboration both internally and externally
• Make systems complimentary to each other but still distinct
Hybrid solution:
• Keep internal communications within a tightly managed on-premises instance
• Enable collaboration through SharePoint Online and OneDrive
• Hybrid search of both online and on-premises
• Create custom web parts to surface specific content from other system to improve
the user experience
21. Case Study
Global Manufacturer and Service Provider
Client background:
• Extensive use of SharePoint throughout the enterprise
• Wide adoption and acceptance
Client goals:
• Collaborate internally and externally
• Secure information with IRM
• Leverage new features of search
Hybrid solution:
• Move collaboration into SharePoint Online
• Move unstructured data into OneDrive
• Leverage search of both online and on-premises