Office 365 & SharePoint

SharePoint is an application that provides an extensive range of capabilities enabling organisations to share, manage and access information from almost any device.

SharePoint Online is the Microsoft cloud hosted edition of SharePoint and is provided as part of Office 365 suite of applications.

SharePoint 2016 is the latest version of the on-premises edition of SharePoint.

Whilst some of the core capabilities of the products are similar, SharePoint Online offers significant additional features not available within the on-premises edition.  For detailed information about the product capabilities please refer to https://technet.microsoft.com/library/jj819267.aspx

Yes, this is referred to as a hybrid environment and is a common scenario for organisations with existing SharePoint on-premises environments who are making the transition to SharePoint Online, or those with the need to retain a portion of their SharePoint environment on-premises.

OneDrive for Business makes it easy to manage your personal work files, share them, and collaborate with others from any device.

OneDrive for Business provides all the benefits of OneDrive, but with the security and tools that help protect company data.

There are a number of methods that can be used to migrate content into either SharePoint or OneDrive. The most appropriate approach will be highly dependent on the given scenario (e.g. content source location, volumes of data, meta-data mapping, restructuring content etc.).

The SharePoint mobile app will enable users to access content from a smartphone or tablet. When used together with the OneDrive mobile app users can browse SharePoint sites and manage files stored in SharePoint on mobile devices.

Yes, this is referred to as a hybrid environment and is a common scenario for organisations with existing SharePoint on-premises environments who are making the transition to SharePoint Online.