The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of SharePoint 2013 Cloud vs On-Premise.

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SharePoint 2013 on-premise vs Office 365
Online compared
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Contents
 Purpose
 Disclaimer
 Overview
 Key features
 Pros and Cons
 Summary

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Purpose
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of
SharePoint 2013 Cloud vs On-Premise.
Disclaimer:
Information provided in this document is for reference use only. Information in this document is prepared based
on prior projects experience, Microsoft.com, and web research. The information in this document does not
guaranty full accuracy of the items explained. For any questions or concerns please contact Nagaraj Yerram at
nyerram@netpeach.com

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Key features…
Context On Premise Online
Infrastructure
deployment &
maintenance
Internal IT Support team maintains the SharePoint farm
on premise, and regularly applies Microsoft patches and
updates.
Microsoft manages the environment and ensures all
updates and patches are deployed.
Availability &
Business Continuity
(BC)
Varies by company's internal capabilities and SLAs. Microsoft’s SLA ensures 99.9% availability. Data
protection services are provided to prevent the loss of
SharePoint Online data. Backups are performed every 12
hours and retained for 14 days.
Authentication On premise Active directory is used for authentication. Can be confuigured to authenticate with on premise
Active Directory.
Look and feel
customization
Full support. Full support.
Custom App
Devlopement
Development of custom app has more control and take
less time to develop.
Development of custom app is different form on
premise, and could take more time to develop.
Cost Involved Purchase/Maintain Hardware, Software licenses etc. Annual subscriptions for Office 365 Plans billed on a per
user basis.
Information
Security
Dependent on internal capabilities. Information in MDS meets industry-specific security
standards
Compliance
Standard
Dependent on internal capabilities. Verified by third party authors
Storage needs Expensive storage devices, Site Collection -More than
100GB, Scalable Storage Size
Cheap storage cost, Site Collection- up to 100Gb,
Maximum content in single tenant -O365 plan based

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Product features compared
Features On Premise Online
Product Features Support for compleate enterprise features. Office 365 cloud version missing some features.
Content features  Supports most of the Content features.
Site features.  Supports most of the Site features.
Search features  Supports most of the features.
Social features  Supports full Social features.
Insights features  Does not support all Insights features. Missing features
such as Business Intelligence Center, Performance Point
Services, Dashboards & Scorecards, and SQL Server
reports integration.
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On-Premise Pros and Cons
Pros Cons
Control Performance Cost of internal resources (staff, hardware, software, etc.)
Scale Up and Scale Out Additional Geographic redundancy costs
Reduces Bandwidth requirements Disaster Recovery dependent on internal capabilities
Fully Customizable Scale Up/Out Cost( SW/HW)
Full Server and SQL Database Patching Servers/farms
Migrate as Needed Extra configurations for External Collaboration
Pros Cons
Uptime 99.99% More ISP Bandwidth
Multiple Data centers Limited Customizations
Geographically redundant Possible Storage Costs
Shorted release cycle Recovery SLAs
Managed Services ( SaaS) No Server access
Pay as you go ( Low Cost )
Reduced impact on internal IT resources
Scalability
Cloud Pros and Cons

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Summary
SharePoint Cloud option was first introduced in 2010. In the past, there have been
some major differences between SharePoint Online and SharePoint On Premise. Since
then, Microsoft has been working towards release parity, meaning that SharePoint
Online will be the equivalent of SharePoint On Premise. With the release of SharePoint
2013 that gap has come down significantly. With that said, there are still integration
points and advanced functionality that are only available with SharePoint On Premise.
All Office 365 plans include the SharePoint Online service, but not all plans support all
SharePoint features. E3 and E4 plans support most features. Cloud option is missing
SharePoint’s some of the Business Intelligence features.
Could and on-premise options come with its own advantages and disadvantages. Most
of the information has been summarized in this document for your review.