| | NOVEMBER 20208CIOReviewIN MY OPINIONMIGRATING TO OFFICEBy Rob Franch, CTO, Cushman & Wakefield [NYSE: CWK]My first experience with Microsoft Office 365 came back in 2009 when the product was known by another name and sold exclusively to large Fortune 500 enterprises. At the time "The Cloud" and "SaaS" services were still relatively new and somewhat scary to firms that had traditionally done their IT in house. Also, Microsoft was still primarily a packaged software company with little to no experience as a provider of services. To say moving over 40,000 seats to what was then Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) was a somewhat risky proposition is an understatement, however we saw the long-term value of moving towards SaaS based productivity and collaboration platform and moved forward with the conversion as one of the early adopters of the platform.
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