Decide When To Use SharePoint On Premises And SharePoint Online

Microsoft offers different models for doing business in SharePoint 2016, so depending upon our needs we should choose the most feasible models for our organization.

Microsoft offers different models for doing business in SharePoint 2016, so depending upon our needs we choose the most feasible models for our orgainization. 

 

Basically there are theree different models in Sharepoint 2016: 

• SharePoint On Premises
• SharePoint Online
• SharePoint Hybrid 

Below are some of the advantages over other Sharepoint models which will help you to choose a feasible model for your organizations. 

SharePoint On Premises

• Keep your sensitive data safe.
• Customize to your needs
• Stable Build
• Determine when search should crawl
• Ability to use your own URL
• Add a server to handle the Usage.
• Define the custom service level agreement (SLA)

SharePoint Online

• SharePoint farms are hosted in Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure
• Microsoft applies security patches and pushes platform updates
• Office 365 has committed to 99.9% availability in service level agreement (SLA).
• Office 365 receives more new features, more frequently
• Unlimited storage for certain plan with the help of OneDrive
• Sync important files for offline uses

SharePoint Hybrid

SharePoint hybrid is integration between SharePoint Online and on-premises platform. It's evolved rapidly across the organization.

• Search across both models in a single search; i.e., Get the search result from both SharePoint online and SharePoint on premises
• Integrate on premises data with BCS (Business Connectivity services).
• Hybrid OneDrive for Business due to unlimited storage.
• Keep your sensitive data on premises
• Customize to your needs
• External sharing the easy way
• Advanced features of SharePoint Online
• Take advantage of the cloud features:
  
  
• Work from anywhere
• Use Other 365 features
• DLP (Data loss presentation), IRM (Information Right Management) and DR (Disaster Recovery)

 When SharePoint hybrid make sense:

1. Potential for Fewer Employees
   
   
1. Allocate more sites in SharePoint online
2. Allocate more out-of-the-box features by taking advantage of online features
   
   
2. Potential for Fewer Servers
   
   
1. Configure only the sensitive data on server.
2. Configure only highly customized processes on servers