In 2015, Microsoft announced that it was making some changes to the features of the platforms. SharePoint Online and Office 365 (features that allowed customers to create public-facing websites on top of SharePoint. For new customers, this change meant that the feature wasn't available, while existing customers could only use it until March 2017. Since then, existing customers have been able to postpone the removal of their public website from SharePoint Online, allowing them to continue using the site until March 2018.

And now what? What does this change mean for Sharepoint and Office 365 customers?

As time is setting the pace, Microsoft is urging both existing and new customers to move and choose third-party vendors such as Sitecore, providers that offer a complete solution for creating and having an online presence.

Microsoft explains: “As part of the evolution of the Office 365 service, we regularly evaluate the capabilities of the service to ensure that we provide maximum value to customers.”

Why choose Sitecore?

Like Sharepoint, Sitecore has been around for the last decade and is one of the world's leaders in customer experience management. Sitecore isn't just a CMS, but rather a complete digital marketing platform or an experience platform as they like to call it.

In the following graph, we can see how Sitecore's search trend over the past 5 years has been increasing. As a curiosity, mention that during the Christmas season, the search trends for this CMS decrease.

Below we can see which countries have been most interested in Sitecore in the last 5 years.

Sitecore allows web marketers and content publishers to have full control over all aspects of their website, including social integration, personalization, marketing automation, advanced reporting and more.

For organizations that want greater control of their website, a more advanced editorial experience, and some of the most advanced, innovative and progressive marketing tools, Sitecore is a good option. It's also important to mention that Sitecore fully integrates with Sharepoint so that all Sharepoint content can be taken full advantage of in Sitecore.

Sitecore Migration Experts

La SharePoint to Sitecore migration it is a task that requires proper analysis, planning and execution. Since all content and data migration is currently a manual process that must be completed by the customer, we strongly recommend that you partner with experienced Sitecore specialists.

In Novicell we are experts in transferring content and data from Microsoft Sharepoint to a new CMS. Not only do we have extensive experience in data migration, but we also have a team of highly qualified Sitecore specialists who will ensure a secure migration from Sharepoint to Sitecore. We also have experts in other content management systems such as Umbraco, Drupal, DynamicWeb and Episerver.

If you want to know more in detail the benefits of migrating from Sharepoint, we invite you to Contact us, it will be a pleasure for us to be able to help you.