While IBM Domino has served many organizations well over the last couple of decades, it is now outdated and no longer supported. Continuing to use this legacy system for your business processes is not just holding you back from modern communication, collaboration, and efficiencies—it’s opening your organization up to potential security risks.
But how do you decide on a system to adopt when moving away from Domino? Today, most businesses are choosing the cloud, and Microsoft 365 has emerged as the prime choice for organizations looking for user-friendly, secure applications to keep business running. Even if you don’t choose Microsoft, there are some crucial components you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for when shopping for a cloud solution. Read on to learn what the top three are.
The Ability to Conduct Seamless Virtual Meetings
The business world is never going back to the in-office majority of the pre-2020 era, so organizations must have a superior virtual meeting solution to support remote and hybrid-remote teams. Your cloud solution should offer the ability to:
- Seamlessly collaborate across devices
- Leverage a presentation feature that gives you notes, slides, chat, and participants in a single view
- Enable viewers to get your presentation in their chosen language
- Allow presenters to engage with the audience using inking or laser pointer features to draw attention to certain areas of the screen
- Deliver recordings and transcripts that are automatically saved for later reference
- Enable viewers to continue to collaborate after the meeting
Unforgiving Security
No business—no matter how small—is safe from cyber threats today. Cybercriminals are evolving their malicious tools almost faster than security teams can keep up, which is why a cloud solution with strong security is essential. Your cloud solution should:
- Coordinate detection, prevention, investigation, and response across endpoints, applications, email, and identities
- Help your security team determine the full scope and impact of a threat, including how it entered your environment and how it’s impacting your business
- Take automatic action to prevent or stop the attack
- Enable self-healing of endpoints, user identities, and affected mailboxes
Secure Storage and File Accessibility
Your solution should provide the ability to store all your files in the cloud—giving you and your teams accessibility to them from any device or location. This capability combines both the collaborative and security benefits of the cloud and is an essential feature for powering the modern hybrid-remote workforce.
In today’s environment where mobile working is a given, your teams need to be able to access documents freely and make changes to them in a secure way. With measures such as two-factor authentication, only the right employees should have access to the right files so confidential data stays safe. You should have the ability to set protocols for which parties can access files and what their permissions are for editing them. The solution should also provide version control so there is no question about who edited what item and when—even as workers have the ability to make changes to documents in real-time.
Ready to Consider Moving Away from IBM Domino?
Point Alliance has been helping organizations like yours make the migration to the cloud from Domino for years, and our customers have seen unmatched success by choosing Microsoft 365. From robust security to document management to its world-renowned Teams portal, Microsoft 365 offers every benefit available with the cloud.
You’ll also get a predictable monthly spend on the solution, automatic upgrades, business continuity, and the support of the experts at Point Alliance. We can help you achieve a smooth, seamless migration to the cloud when you’re ready. Contact us to learn more.
