MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 – Empowering Productivity
Protect your competitive advantage—keep your data safer with enterprise-grade security Office 365.
Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service designed to help meet your organisation’s needs for robust security, reliability, and user productivity, help save time and money, and free up valuable resources.
Office 365 integrates the familiar Microsoft Office desktop suite with cloud-based versions of Microsoft, to help users be more productive from virtually anywhere.
When you move your organisation to cloud services, you must be able to trust your service provider with your most important, sensitive, and confidential data. Because security is paramount for business success, Microsoft has robust policies, controls, and systems built into Office 365 to help keep your information safe.
- What is Skype for Business?
- What is Mobile Device Management?
- What is Cloud Computing?
- What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?
Skype for Business integrates with Office 365, boosting productivity by letting people connect on their terms.
Skype for Business lets you add up to 250 people to online meetings, gives you enterprise-grade security, allows you to manage employee accounts, and is integrated into your Office apps.
Employees can make and receive calls, give presentations, and attend meetings from one application—from anywhere—as long as they have an Internet connection.
For example, employees can:
- Instantly see when someone is busy or available.
- Start an instant messaging session by double-clicking a contact name.
- Share a desktop during a meeting.
- Invite outside partners to join a meeting via a full-feature web conferencing experience.
- Integrate video through a webcam for a call or a conference.
With Skype for Business you don’t need to have a dedicated administrator to run servers or invest in additional infrastructure.
To protect your business from insider threat, Office 365 MDM allows you to selectively wipe the Office 365 business data when an employee leaves, while leaving their personal data in place.
The business must ensure in the employee contract that the data of the business is owned by the business and the employee gives consent (if personal phone) for the data to be removed.
Cloud computing is a general term for the delivery of hosted services over the internet.
Cloud computing enables companies to consume a computer resource as a utility — just like electricity — rather than having to build and maintain computing infrastructures in house.
Cloud computing boasts several attractive benefits for businesses. Three of the main benefits of cloud computing are:
- End users can add up compute resources for almost any type of workload on demand. This eliminates the traditional need for IT personnel to administer and manage compute resources.
- Companies can scale up as computing needs increase and scale down again as demands decrease. This eliminates the need for massive investments in local infrastructure which may or may not be used.
- Compute resources are measured at a usage level, allowing users to pay only for the resources and workloads they use.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which a third-party provider (eg. Microsoft) hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet. SaaS is one of three main categories of cloud computing, alongside infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).
SaaS removes the need for organisations to install and run applications on their own computers or in their own data centres. This eliminates the expense of hardware acquisition, maintenance, software licensing as well as installation and support. Rather than purchasing new software, customers can rely on a SaaS provider to automatically perform updates and patch management. This further reduces the burden on in-house IT staff.
Benefits of Office 365
Gain access virtually anywhere
Office 365 helps you work from virtually anywhere on nearly any device – PC, Mac, iPhone, Windows Phone and Android.
99.9% availability, financially backed guarantee
With Office 365, your mail, documents, and services are available when you need them. Delivered from a global network of state-of-the-art data centres protected by multiple layers of security and a strict privacy policy, Office 365 includes a financially-backed Service Level Agreement for guaranteed 99.9% scheduled uptime.
Reduce cost and provide reliability
Office 365 can provide your business with predictable annual costs of using the communications, collaboration, and productivity tools. In addition, it can help you significantly reduce costs and effort spent deploying and managing on-premises servers.
Enterprise Security
With Office 365, your data is protected with the highest standard of physical and digital security. Microsoft Exchange Online has built-in antivirus and spam filtering protections designed to address new virus and spam threats—known and unknown—as soon as they appear.
You are in control
Through the Office 365 management site, IT stays in control. Patches, updates, and back-end upgrades are automatically applied while you retain control over when to deploy major changes.
Minimise the Learning Curve
Your people can become productive right away using familiar Office tools that integrate with Office 365 without requiring complicated setup or configuration.
Find a Plan that fits your needs
Office 365 is available in a variety of plans to meet your businesses and IT needs. Each plan has the same 99.9% uptime guarantee and the security you expect from Microsoft.
Exceptional Email, Collaboration, and Online Meeting Solutions
Office 365 provides exceptional email, collaboration, and online meeting solutions. Your people can simultaneously edit documents with their colleagues and easily escalate the collaboration into an online meeting.
Receive Support 24/7
Microsoft is proud to provide global IT-level support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for Office 365 subscribers. Your service administrators can create support tickets anytime or call any one of the support centres around the globe.
Office 365 is designed on the principles of the Security Development Lifecycle, a mandatory Microsoft process that embeds security requirements into every phase of development.
Your Office 365 data belongs to you; that means you have complete control of it.
We give you extensive privacy controls and visibility into where your data resides and who has access to it, as well as availability and changes to the service. If you end your subscription to the service, you can take your data with you.
Microsoft-managed service-level security technologies and policies are enabled by default, and customer-managed controls enable you to customise your Office 365 environment to fit your organisation’s security needs. Office 365 is continuously updated to enhance security.
Office 365 is your personal Office and more. It lets you work from anywhere, on any device, whether you’re online or offline. It helps you do your best work, the way you want to, wherever you are. That means more powerful tools for creating content, better ways to work together, and easier ways to share PC, Mac, tablet & phone.
People work across a variety of devices from different locations and all need a natural, clean and fast experience. Office 365 gives people access to everything they need to get the job done from anywhere. Files and settings are synced from one device to the next, creating freedom and reliability for your team. Enable your people, unleash your talent.
When everyone is working together it can be hard to keep track of files and even harder to work with them on the go. OneDrive for Business gives you one place for all your work files, so you can access them anytime, from any device, and share the latest version with the rest of the team.
Microsoft® Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time and money and to free valuable resources.
