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New infographic: Periodic Table of Office 365
I consider myself a SharePoint geek, but I play more and more in the larger Office 365 (O365) sphere these days. In doing so, I’ve noticed that O365 as a concept is difficult to explain… both to IT folks and the everyday workers who are expected to use it.
So I put together a new infographic that (hopefully) provides a quick intro to O365, its apps, and how they're all related. Good for both the IT crowd and lines of business. Check out my Periodic Table of Office 365 below.
Update (Dec 2017): The original infographic has been upgraded to being a fully dynamic, web-based tool complete with articles on many of the apps, more translations (7 languages as of today!), and more. It's embeddable too, which is what you see below. Embed it in your intranet or website today!
Deleted has found an engaging way to present The Waffle (or La Gaufre), but the analogy could even be taken a little further! With a vague recollection of high school chemistry, here goes:
Sway: Helium (He). Refuses to interact with anything else, makes your voice sound funny.
Flow: Phosphorus (P). Spontaneously combusts, never quite know when it's going to start working. Handle with extreme care.
SharePoint: Sodium (Na). Shiny and new, until you take it our of the jar. Then quickly goes dull grey.
PowerPoint: Arsenic (As). The phrase "death by PowerPoint" is already in common use. Toxic to any large audience.
OneNote: Krypton (Kr). Superman, need I say more?
Mail: Potassium (K). Handle with care. As a salt it seems innocuous enough, but in its pure form it actually explodes in water.
Calendar: Barium (Ba). Used to tell whether you're "regular", in a gastrointestinal kinda way.
Teams: Tantalum (Ta). Tantalisingly similar to an unnamed competitor product.
Yammer: Tungsten (W). Lightbulb moments. Durable and hard-wearing compounds.
Visio: Iridium (Ir). Highest information density, must be combined as an alloy with Word or PowerPoint.This is halarious. I love it!
Benjamin Elias, Great analogy to Office 365.
Benjamin Elias wrote:Deleted has found an engaging way to present The Waffle (or La Gaufre), but the analogy could even be taken a little further! With a vague recollection of high school chemistry, here goes:
Sway: Helium (He). Refuses to interact with anything else, makes your voice sound funny.
Flow: Phosphorus (P). Spontaneously combusts, never quite know when it's going to start working. Handle with extreme care.
SharePoint: Sodium (Na). Shiny and new, until you take it our of the jar. Then quickly goes dull grey.
PowerPoint: Arsenic (As). The phrase "death by PowerPoint" is already in common use. Toxic to any large audience.
OneNote: Krypton (Kr). Superman, need I say more?
Mail: Potassium (K). Handle with care. As a salt it seems innocuous enough, but in its pure form it actually explodes in water.
Calendar: Barium (Ba). Used to tell whether you're "regular", in a gastrointestinal kinda way.
Teams: Tantalum (Ta). Tantalisingly similar to an unnamed competitor product.
Yammer: Tungsten (W). Lightbulb moments. Durable and hard-wearing compounds.
Visio: Iridium (Ir). Highest information density, must be combined as an alloy with Word or PowerPoint.
Great work Matt !! I hope if you do not mind, I created a light version of your periodic table in PowerPoint format, with the ability for anyone to remove certain blocks or modify the text inside others.
https://www.slideshare.net/ammarhasayen/office-365-periodic-table-editable
How do I get it in .ppt version from SlideShare? I can only seem to get .pdf.
Nicely done! I love these different ways of explaining Office 365, I am sure end-users respond well to this. Anything that helps demystify the 'elements' of Office 365 and the modern toolset, is time well spent in my book.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing.
Just a suggestion: IMO, Sway should be connected to PowerPoint.
- I tried to at first, but couldn't get an alignment that worked. Then I reconsidered: Sway does presentations, but it also does newsletters (like Word) and web pages (like Publisher), so it's not really just a PowerPoint sibling, which makes placement that much more complicated. So I gave it its own spot for being unruly.
- I like this. Clean but comprehensive.
I'd work in O365 Groups.- Really nice Matt!
I gave it a shot. What do you think?
Wow! That is stunning... You are a big inspiration.
Note: This infographic has been updated to include Microsoft Forms. The link is still the same (http://icsh.pt/O365Table). The image above should no longer be used.
Second note: This infographic has been transformed into a dynamic web page. Continue using the link in the above paragraph for access.
- I think you need to use the full URL (http://icsh.pt/O365Table) for a link here on the Tech Community site!
Great work, Matt. Could you also make available the original (Visio I assume)? I would like to adapt it somewhat to fit our own architecture and vocabulary. I can't seem to find the proper files for the icons (the 2017 CnE visio template does not have them...).
Of course you will get full credits for the original.
Thanks!
Hey Matt,
You do such a great job don't you think you should do an infographic and blog about external/guest/anonymously access for each app. I am just trying to get my head clear with Yammer and adding an external member to a conversation vs creating an external group vs creating an external network vs inviting guests into your home network. Really external access can be the make or break of using an app and O365 groups complicates the whole thing.
Christine
At some point maybe. Lots to cover there, though. I did cover external sharing in SharePoint Online with these infographics.
http://icansharepoint.com/everyday-guide-external-sharing-sharepoint-online/
WOW! Awesome work!!! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much !! Simply awesome:)
Thank you for sharing, this is a nice infograph.
Great infographic !
Should add Microsoft form available for education but it seems it is arriving on business tenants too as I saw it as E3 service on our tenant today
