According to a recent Gartner survey, the Office 365 (O365) adoption rate is high and growing. Roughly 78 percent of the survey’s respondents indicated that their companies were either using or planning to use O365 in near future. As a result, more and more organizations deploy SharePoint workloads on O365.  Choosing the right framework for building these workloads has become a critical task for developers. Creating SharePoint workloads can be fun, but also complex. Considering the myriad of frameworks available for developing SharePoint sites today, you’ve got plenty of options. But Bootstrap is soon becoming an increasingly popular front-end development framework. A large number of developers today are riding the Bootstrap wave, and there's enough reason. The Bootstrap framework is feature rich, flexible, and offers several benefits to those using it. Let's look at some of the top reasons developers are using Bootstrap for building SharePoint workloads on O365:

File sharing and management is a critical task for every organization. And with Office 365, you now have new ways to share and collaborate on all your files across OneDrive and SharePoint Online; while OneDrive gives you the freedom to create and store files on the cloud, SharePoint Online allows you to make them available for a larger audience, and collaborate content effectively. Together they make storing and accessing all your information simple and powerful. Okta customer research’s finding is that Microsoft’s Office 365 is the favorite and most used cloud service so far this year. You can seamlessly access files across all of your devices, edit documents on the go, and collaborate with colleagues in real-time. Let's look at some of the other useful file sharing tasks you can carry out with O365:

If you're part of a highly regulated industry, then O365 eDiscovery is going to make your life a lot easier. By helping identify and deliver digital information from tens of thousands of places within the organization, for instance in Exchange Online mailboxes, Office 365 groups, SharePoint Online, and sites, eDiscovery makes the investigation process simpler and faster. To save time and further simplify the eDiscovery process, Microsoft made certain enhancements to O365 that make performing investigations from one central location possible. With these new eDiscovery enhancements, Microsoft aims to further strengthen the rich set of capabilities in O365 and improve the investigation process, enabling organizations to meet legal and regulatory obligations in an efficient manner. According to a Forrester study on “The Total Economic Impact of Office 365,” which studied the benefits of the software in a composite organization, using O365 eliminates the need to undertake four projects that would have otherwise been required - encrypted email, data leakage, eDiscovery, and rights management capabilities. In total, 9.5 man-months are saved with a corresponding cost avoidance of $90,250. If you're wondering how you can benefit from these enhancements, let's have a detailed look at each of them:

Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 have been the leading contenders in the cloud-based business productivity applications marketplace. There are similar features and categories, from mobile apps and connectivity to document sharing, instant messaging, calendar, emails, storage, and more.

Productivity is evolving at a rapid pace. As organizations embrace a dramatic new approach to productivity, Microsoft’s fastest growing commercial product ever, Office 365 (O365) has taken center stage. O365 is the next step in the evolution of business tools, delivering cloud-based productivity that complements the Office desktop experience. Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a lead in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Social Software for O365. O365 has over 50 million active business users per month and is packed with a huge set of enterprise-class capabilities helping organizations enhance productivity and transform their business.  Keep reading to discover the top 5 ways to boost business productivity with O365.

From the shift from isolated cubicles, away from colleagues and peers, to an open office floor plan with shared desks, workplace dynamics have truly transformed over the years.  More emphasis is given to teamwork and shared communication for improved workplace productivity. A similar trend is transforming the enterprise technology space – employees have progressed from working on individual, isolated desktops to having collaborative sharing and communication through MS Office, Outlook, SharePoint, and the Cloud. Devices are connected, disparate applications exchange information with each other, and everyone is encouraged to use digital tools to work more closely with our peers. 

SharePoint has been fueling enterprise collaboration by bringing teams together through a multitude of features like document management, BI, search, and enterprise content management. In order to drive operational excellence, Microsoft has released a new feature as an update for SharePoint called Cloud Search Service Application.

What does the Cloud Search Service Application do? It connects on-premises content with the O365 search index, enabling users to perform searches and view results across both environments. This is particularly important in a hybrid SharePoint scenario where some content resides in the cloud while some remains on-premises. This new search capability helps reduce market resistance, especially among enterprises that are overly cautious storing sensitive content off-premises.