Analyzing usage of over 20,000 cloud services, we found that 58.4% of sensitive data in the cloud is stored in Microsoft Office documents. A key goal for the company is driving more Office 365 usage, also referred to as “consumption”, and their efforts appears to be working.Įven though Microsoft already occupies the top spot in cloud usage rankings by user count, the company still has a significant opportunity to expand Office 365 revenue. However, usage within enterprises grew over 320% as the percentage of employees using at least one Office 365 application more than tripled from 6.8 to 22.3 percent. In the previous 9 months, the percentage of enterprises with at least 100 users increased slightly from 87.3 to 91.4 percent. Microsoft has been successful in gaining an Office 365 foothold in nearly every enterprise. We compared usage in Q3 2015 with that in Q2 2016 to assess the growth of Office 365 over the past three quarters. These enterprises span all major industries worldwide. To look at the state of Office 365 adoption and how it is transforming enterprise productivity and collaboration, we analyzed cloud usage data from McAfee Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) for over 27 million users working at over 600 enterprises.
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Moreover, enterprises using Office 365 benefit by always having users on the latest versions without having to upgrade anything.
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It’s a win for customers as well who no longer pay for hardware or resources to manage software in their own datacenters. Microsoft CFO Amy Hood has explained that transactional customers who generally upgrade every 5-7 years pay up to 80% more in the long run with Office 365 when they use an E-3 plan that includes Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) as well as cloud-based Exchange Online, SharePoint, and Skype for Business Online.
That strategy is beginning to pay financial dividends. It’s all part of Satya Nadella’s vision for remaking Microsoft into a subscription company where customers rent rather than buy software. Put another way, in the last two years Office 365 has eclipsed all other cloud providers to emerge as the most widely used enterprise cloud service by user count. Today, one out of every five corporate employees uses an Office 365 cloud service, up from less than 7% just nine months ago. The swiftness and scale of the company’s pivot under Satya Nadella’s leadership is impressive. All but written off 24 months ago as the technology landscape tilted in favor of mobile devices and cloud services, rather than software running on PCs, Microsoft has successfully reinvented itself as a cloud computing powerhouse.
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