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Is it still very desktop centric as all MS Office products? Because if it is you will struggle to keep up with the amount of data, report and automation that ne

by kfk 8y ago

Is it still very desktop centric as all MS Office products? Because if it is you will struggle to keep up with the amount of data, report and automation that need to run on top of various cloud applications.

legitster 8y ago
Office is getting to (but not quite at) that sweet spot of "it just works". So long as you save into your Onedrive a lot of that is magically taken care of. And then you get that one user who takes the collaborative document, downloads it to their desktop, then emails everyone a revision.
- johnwalkr 8y ago
  > And then you get that one user who takes the collaborative document, downloads it to their desktop, then emails everyone a revision. This is a constant struggle for me. It took about 3 years, but I had most of our company using google docs and not working locally much. Then a critical mass of newcomers came and the IT department decided we should move away from google docs and so provided a file server. A year later, a few people of us are stubbornly using google docs but 80% of our files are scattered across the fileserver and desktops. And you can be sure that whatever you find on the fileserver is not the latest version. While I’m on a rant, the same people refuse to use commenting features and instead add red text and text boxes all over the place.
EpicEng 8y ago
I believe Flow is a cloud service only.
spdustin 8y ago
(edit: I'm talking about Flow here) It's like IFTTT/Zapier/Huginn, but by Microsoft. It has all the advanced scriptability you'd need, but it's still missing some of the best parts of those solutions. Definitely cloud-centric, and reaches into on-premises data through an optional on-premises data connection agent. You'd be surprised at how much you can do with it. (edit: especially powerful if you're using SharePoint)

4 ms·

Is it still very desktop centric as all MS Office products? Because if it is you will struggle to keep up with the amount of data, report and automation that ne

by kfk 8y ago

legitster 8y ago
Office is getting to (but not quite at) that sweet spot of "it just works". So long as you save into your Onedrive a lot of that is magically taken care of. And then you get that one user who takes the collaborative document, downloads it to their desktop, then emails everyone a revision.
- johnwalkr 8y ago
  > And then you get that one user who takes the collaborative document, downloads it to their desktop, then emails everyone a revision. This is a constant struggle for me. It took about 3 years, but I had most of our company using google docs and not working locally much. Then a critical mass of newcomers came and the IT department decided we should move away from google docs and so provided a file server. A year later, a few people of us are stubbornly using google docs but 80% of our files are scattered across the fileserver and desktops. And you can be sure that whatever you find on the fileserver is not the latest version. While I’m on a rant, the same people refuse to use commenting features and instead add red text and text boxes all over the place.
EpicEng 8y ago
I believe Flow is a cloud service only.
spdustin 8y ago
(edit: I'm talking about Flow here) It's like IFTTT/Zapier/Huginn, but by Microsoft. It has all the advanced scriptability you'd need, but it's still missing some of the best parts of those solutions. Definitely cloud-centric, and reaches into on-premises data through an optional on-premises data connection agent. You'd be surprised at how much you can do with it. (edit: especially powerful if you're using SharePoint)