This document summarizes research on the hybrid SharePoint market. It found that the hybrid market is growing substantially and will account for 46% of the overall SharePoint market by 2020. Many organizations are pursuing hybrid solutions to reduce costs while moving collaboration capabilities to the cloud. However, concerns about customization and security are preventing some from adopting cloud SharePoint. The research aims to understand these barriers and how vendors can address challenges in migrating to the cloud. It provides recommendations like improving migration tools to maintain customizations and reinforcing cloud security.

1. Overcoming the Barriers
to Hybrid SharePoint
Christian Buckley
CollabTalk LLC, USA

2. Vesa Juvonen
@VesaJuvonen
Eric Overfield
@EricOverfield
Vlad Catrinescu
@VladCatrinescu
Jussi Roine
@JussiRoine

3. Hybrid Business Drivers
As SharePoint continues to evolve its footprint, companies
are demanding flexible architectures to help them better
meet internal and external collaboration needs.
• Reducing costs
• Reducing headcount
• Doing more with less
• Focusing less on traditional IT activities and more on
activities that will help drive the business forward

5. Research Overview
http://hybrid-sp.collabtalk.com/

6. Research Sponsors

7. Research Background
• As collaboration moves from on-prem to the cloud, many organizations struggle
with moving years of on-premises infrastructure and data to the cloud.
• There had been no accurate data as to how many customers are actively pursuing
hybrid solutions as a strategy versus displacing
on-prem environments with the cloud.
• It is unknown the reason why customers are not adopting the cloud version of
SharePoint, and engaging this new product

8. Research Goals
• Estimate the market size of SharePoint Hybrid market
• Understand why customers remain on-premises
• Identify fears and concerns of moving SharePoint to the cloud
• Outline challenges for customers considering migrating to the cloud
• Understand how vendors and Microsoft are addressing these challenges

10. 2017 2020
$3.2B $5.3B
Growth of Hybrid Market
Hybrid
32%
Hybrid
46%
2017
2020
Market by UsersHybrid Market Share

11. Mitigate Security and Customization Concerns

12. Customization Insights
21%
Of users
experience
"inability or difficulty with customization“
Gartner reports that
“Migration of customizations
used in on-premises
installations is the biggest
blocker to cloud migrations
of SharePoint.”
Jared Shockley, Senior Service Engineer at Microsoft

13. Security
Future of Hybrid?
Cloud Flexibility
Control of Data
Cost of Integration

19. SUMMARY
Microsoft ISVs/SIs End-Users
Focus marketing on security
of Hybrid space
Improve migration compatibility
Reinforce message of cloud security
Offer Hybrid and cloud solutions
Analyze and Optimize
Plan ahead/partner with ISVs/SIs

20. Vesa Juvonen
@VesaJuvonen
Eric Overfield
@EricOverfield
Vlad Catrinescu
@VladCatrinescu
Jussi Roine
@JussiRoine
Thank you to our panel!