They can thus choose the Jalios on-premise offer, coupled with an Office 365 in the cloud, or conversely choose the Jalios cloud offer, coupled with a hosted exchange server. With the migration to the cloud, the issue of data security and reversibility also comes up regularly.įor Jalios, which has long responded to the needs of customers who want an on-premise solution, we obviously also offer a cloud solution, but we leave it up to our customers to go at their own pace, so they can compose a hybrid environment.

Jean-Michel: In both cases, we can see that these organizations need support, and the presence of consulting players was entirely relevant. This is the case of MAIF, which has chosen to use Jalios for its Digital Workplace and its long-term business communities, and to rely on Microsoft for more instantaneous project collaboration with Teams, and for CSR with Yammer. Others, who are already Jalios customers, want to be reassured that they will be able to keep both simple for users. This is the case, for example, of Indigo, which has chosen to use Jalios for the entire Intranet communications and Digital Workplace aspect and to rely on Office 365 Teams to implement collaborative working within the organization. When they are not yet Jalios customers, they see the 'unifying' value proposition of Jalios. They realize that the Office 365 suite alone is not enough to meet their ambition of providing their users with a 'single point of access'. Youssef: Today, in customer meetings, we meet a lot of organizations that are historical Microsoft customers and are migrating to Office 365. To what extent did this conference address the concerns about Office 365 of the people you meet in customer meetings today? This is the case, for example, for all users' business applications or more advanced functionalities such as Jalios Learning. Jalios also seeks to make it easier to use by enabling more advanced interactions between Office 365 and Jalios, and to enrich these uses by opening the Digital Workplace to everything that neither Office 365 nor Jalios offers as standard. Youssef: With the Jalios Digital Workplace, it's not just a question of facilitating access to Office 365 with a dashboard. I tried to stress this point during my presentation, because it is a problem of historical market perception and comparative studies unfortunately too often continue to oppose complementary solutions. The debate is not so much about 'Jalios' advantages over Office 365', as we are sometimes asked, but rather to see how they complement each other.

Jean-Michel: I think it was important to redefine the vision of the Digital Workplace according to Jalios: an environment which consists of making users' daily lives easier, and this daily life includes the Microsoft suite, whether for email, calendar, but also collaborative tools which are now being pushed by Microsoft such as Teams, Yammer, SharePoint, etc. What was your message to the participants of this conference? This is also reflected in Microsoft's strategy: most of the announced evolutions are based on Teams. On the other hand, there has been a lot of talk about Teams, especially at the level of presentations: we feel that the tool is growing and is used more and more. Microsoft France's premises lend themselves well to this and it's another approach and another atmosphere compared to the fairs we also attend, which are more editor-oriented and can sometimes be a bit too technical. Jean-Michel: I liked the 'sharing of best practices' atmosphere found at user club-type events, such as those that Jalios can organize with its JClub. This really proves the diversity of Microsoft's ecosystem, and for me, who joined Jalios less than a year ago, I was delighted to attend this conference. We were able to meet quite a few people, whether they were Jalios customers such as Business France, publishers such as Jalios, consulting firms such as Devoteam or companies with expertise in backup such as Carbonite, the discussions were very enriching. It was sold out with nearly 900 participants and an impressive panel of partners.

Youssef : I found the event very 'cool' for a conference of this scale. What was the atmosphere at this conference? First of all Youssef, thank you for this very refreshing linkedin post.

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