Gibbons said enterprises may have standalone licences for Exchange, SharePoint and Office Pro Plus, which offer online access, but Microsoft also offers E1, E3 and E5 Office 365 suites. The cloud has made it more difficult to be under-licensed, but the issue people are looking at is over-licensing.” Rich Gibbons, licensing analyst for the ITAM Review, said: “All I have spoken to people about is Office 365. The sheer volumes involved in large-scale roll-outs make it hard for IT departments to keep track of costs, said Fisher.
Snow Software specialises in software asset management, an area that can become more complex when businesses move to the cloud. “Last week, one of our resellers told us it made more sales of Office 365 in the first six months of this year than in the previous 24 months since it has been available,” he said. Matt Fisher, a vice-president at Snow Software, said a lot of Microsoft licence solution partners (LSPs) were seeing increased sales of Office 365 subscriptions.
In fact, industry watchers estimate that by 2022, about 70% of organisations will use office tools in the cloud. In Gartner’s Office 365, G Suite or other cloud office initiatives primer for 2017 report, research vice-president Jeffery Mann noted that cloud office products could potentially save companies money and improve employees’ effectiveness if adopted for the right reasons and in the right way. Office 365 is becoming a new Microsoft platform, linking office tools, Exchange and SharePoint with its collaboration offerings, such as Skype for Business and Yammer.
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