According to internal user data, our customers-primarily IT admins-completed 19.7% fewer upgrades of on-premises SharePoint servers in 2020 versus 2019. Here at ShareGate, we witnessed a corresponding trend among ShareGate users, who made fewer on-premises upgrades. Microsoft saw a dip in on-premises product revenue as companies increasingly embraced the cloud-based productivity tools required for a distributed workforce.įor evidence of this acceleration, look no further than Microsoft’s 2020 annual report, which revealed that revenue from the tech giant’s cloud services and commercial products increased by a staggering “$3.1 billion or 12%…offset in part by lower revenue from products licensed on-premises, reflecting a continued shift to cloud offerings.”* (* Microsoft) Last year was a big year for cloud computing, as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation like never before. More companies seeking the benefits of cloud migration The ability to migrate Microsoft Teams is now essential More companies are running cloud-to-cloud migrations Top takeaways from this chapter:Ĭompanies are making fewer on-premises SharePoint migrations while increasingly moving to cloud-based Microsoft 365Īcceleration of on-premises to cloud migrations:Ĭompanies are migrating to the Microsoft cloud more quickly In the case of Microsoft 365 migration, the ability to migrate data within one’s own cloud tenant or tenant-to-tenant will be crucial for a company’s success in 2021 and beyond. More significantly, the rise of the cloud in 2020 demonstrates the importance of digital resilience.

It helps solidify a feeling we’ve been having for years: the cloud is no longer an eventual possibility for businesses-it is the default solution. This trend was reflected in our own ShareGate customer data, which showed a 33% increase in cloud-based operations in 2020 versus 2019. In 2020, we watched as the global shift to a distributed workforce accelerated the move toward cloud-based Microsoft 365 environments. Chapter 1 State of SharePoint & Microsoft cloud migration

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