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I have a feeling that Office 365 is not architected for internet (cloud) scale like Gmail or Hotmail.

As long as I could not consume the functionality offered by the applications in Office 365 Suite from any compute device in a seamless manner, I will still find fault with them on this. This could very well be a personal bias and others might argue otherwise. Even though the idea of simplicity is least important attribute among the five listed above, I still have a feeling that Office 365 is more about Bells and Whistles than about simple consumption of functionality from multiple devices.Let me explain why I feel this way about Office 365. IBM Lotus Live comes next (yeah, I can see some raised eyebrows here but, believe me, IBM has definitely done some interesting stuff on making their apps more socially aware than Microsoft) and Office 365 comes last. Out of the three, Google Apps stands far apart from the other two. There are few others in the space but they are mostly irrelevant in the enterprise context. To put some context for my argument below, I consider Google Apps, IBM LotusLive and Microsoft Office 365 as the three main contenders offering cloud based Office Productivity Suites. The point I was making on Twitter during the debate earlier this week is that Office 365 is not yet a credible player in the modern day office productivity space (my previous take on Office 365 can be found here). Given their track record on pricing for cloud services (Google App Engine and Google Maps comes to my mind), I wouldn’t be surprised if they make “random” price increase on Google Apps. Also, there is no guarantee that Google will keep the Google Apps pricing the same as they get more traction.

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Knock off any thinking about associating free with Google automatically. Also, for those who like to point out the licensing costs associated with Microsoft and IBM products, I just want to point out that Google is fast getting there. Yes, cost is still an important attribute but I am not going to focus on it in this post for strategic reasons. Even though Google Apps might have some advantage on the cost factor against Office 365 and Lotus Live, I am not considering it as important for this discussion. For me, agility, increased productivity and newer opportunities are some of the biggest advantages with cloud than the cost part. Part of the reason for such discussions is that they associate better ROI with anything connected to cloud and, hence, dig deep on the cost aspect while comparing the cloud applications. Many pundits point out to the cost angle as one of the reasons why Office 365 is not the right choice.

Another basic requirement for any modern application is that it cannot be socially inept (pun intended).

In fact, I have even gone one step ahead and argued in many blog posts that there should be feature parity in native mobile apps across all platforms.

Any modern cloud application should be accessible from all mobile platforms.

Users in today’s modern organizations are smart enough to understand that these applications are there to serve their needs than the other way around. Gone are the days when organizations will go to a single vendor for all their IT needs. All modern cloud applications are expected to have open APIs and, as a follow-up to this, a vibrant ecosystem around the application. Whether it is Google Apps or Salesforce or Box, APIs are one of the most used interfaces when we consider application consumption.

In today’s world, APIs are key for any modern application.

The productivity suite may be used by an organization with a small number of employees but it has to be architected to the internet scale like Gmail or Hotmail because the modern day cloud applications are expected to be multi-tenant and should be able to scale to the needs of the entire world.

When I say a modern application should be architected for the cloud scale, I am referring to the kind of architecture Gmail or Hotmail has.

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For me, Bells and Whistles doesn’t matter much because our idea of application consumption has evolved from accessing bloated applications using desktop to consuming application functionalities using any compute device, whether it is desktop or smartphone or TV or, even, Refrigerator.

When I talk about simplicity, I am talking about simple UX in terms of accessing the functionalities in the application.

Let me first briefly explain these attributes to avoid any confusion. When I say modern cloud business applications, I expect them to have, at least, the following attributes: Earlier this week I had a Tweetbate with few folks who have a soft corner for Microsoft products on whether Office 365 (previous CloudAve coverage), Microsoft’s cloud based productivity suite, is a credible player in the modern cloud business applications space.