The Value Proposition of a Platform: Microsoft Win10/Office365/EM+S

[ Update 20161004: I encourage you to watch Brad Anderson’s keynote session at Microsoft Ignite 2016 – Simply IMPRESSIVE!  ]

As I have written before,  technology management has made an incredible shift over the past few years (maybe the last 3-5 years).    Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service are now the common conversations in most organizations.   Some have wholeheartedly embraced the new trends while others are still thinking about it..

One of the most visible shift changes has been  Microsoft’s move to services offerings.   It has been incredible to see and experience.   The one item I want to briefly call-out today is the combination of:   Windows 10. Office 365 and Enterprise mobility & Security Suite.

Individually, each of these offerings – which is used daily by millions of users –  is powerful on its own.   But the real value is when you put the pieces together to delivery secured and useful services to the end-user without having to build or integrate 3rd party-systems in the back-end to support it, and all managed from a centralized (single pane of glass) console)

The set of products produces a modern work space, which is  continuously morphing (improvement cycles) to insure you have a  protected and secure  environment to work in.   From a users point of view,  it includes:

• Secure Devices / Managed OS
  • –Encryption / UEIF / Security Management
  • –Device Enrollment
• Modern Identity Management
  • –Single Sign On
  • –Two-Factor Authentication
  • –Self-service Password Reset
• Modern Data Security
  • –Document Protection
  • –Proactive Threat Management
• Application Delivery & Management
  • –Provision Management (MAM)
  • Conditional access and delivery of applications
• Creation and Collaboration
  • –Document Creation (Office suite)
  • –Document repositories (private, shared and public)
  • –Shared collaborative work spaces
  • –Conferencing / Video / IM
  • –Multi-platform support

As far as the technologies that proved above results:   Please refer to  Microsoft Office 365  E5   or Microsoft Office 365 E3 licensing suite of products.