For time immemorial, Google and Mirosoft have been in a battle to convince you that their suite of productivity applications (currently named Google Workspace and Microsoft 365) should be the only platform deployed across your entire business.
Let’s be completely honest, being on the same platform suite as your colleagues has many benefits, including improved communication and collaboration. Also, the added functionality between applications helps to make users more efficient and tasks easier.
But, a one platform solution may not suit all users, departments or entities across your entire company, especially where there is no actual collaborative or communicative benefit, or even worse, where it alienates them from their customer base.
So, why should one area of the business be made to work less efficiently just so everyone is on the same platform? Well, they don’t! Many companies are successfully using a multi-cloud environment (where different areas of the business are using Google and Microsoft platforms respectively). Here are a few examples of why moving to the multi-cloud could be in your future.