Forum Discussion
C_the_S
Mar 08, 2017Bronze Contributor
New Features
Why does it take so long for Governement to get new features? For example Sway was announced in Oct 2014, and Planner in Dec 2015 and neither is in my tenant.
Laurie Goodwyne
Apr 25, 2017Copper Contributor
Another note for first release. I completely understand the reasoning for Microsoft not to release new products to G customers for compliance and other reasons. However, in Florida, Microsoft hasn't even been approved for CJIS compliance because of the lack of a lead agency, but we went ahead and deployed O365 with the understanding that no CJI or PII information would be emailed or saved in the cloud. Therefore, we have a hybrid setup and are extremely happy to use MS cloud offerings for everything we can...as long as there is no CJI and PII, we are golden. We just recently passed our audit with flying colors. My point being that even if Microsoft were to release things like Planner (which I desperately would like to see), G agencies know the risk of not having certain apps CJIS compliant and work with them accordingly so as not to put their agency in danger of non-compliance. We would jump on Planner train immediately knowing that we weren't going to store CJI or PII in that app. I would love to see Microsoft release apps and provide the caveat that it is not compliant in certain areas, giving agencies the choice of whether or not to utilize. I am a big fan of the MS cloud offerings and would love to get my hands on the new features sooner! Has anyone at Microsoft considered it from that point of view?