What is Office 365?

What is Office 365:

Office 365 is a Microsoft subscription plan that includes access to Office applications and other productivity services that are enabled over the internet (Cloud Services). These services include Lync web conferencing and Exchange online hosted email for business, and additional online storage with OneDrive. Office 365 is available in business and enterprise tiers, where each tier offers various plans with varying features and functionality.

Business-class Mobile Apps:

With an Office 365 for Business subscription, you get mobile apps that help you get more done from your favourite device while keeping your data secured. Office 365 provides built-in security and tools to manage access across phones and tablets. You can apply device-specific security policies with ease, allowing you to ensure that data is synced and accessible on authorised devices only. Office 365 also allows you to wipe data remotely from selected devices.

Office 365 provides a consistent experience across devices for storing, sharing and updating your Office documents, while keeping content and formatting intact.  With 1TB of cloud storage with OneDrive for business you have plenty of file storage.

Security:

Office 365 is a secure service, designed following the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle. Microsoft brings together the best practices from two decades of building enterprise software and managing online services, to give you integrated software-as-a-service solution.

Office 365 uses a defence-in-depth approach to provide physical, logical, and data layers of security features and operational best practices. Office 365 gives you enterprise-grade, user and admin controls to further secure your environment.

Additionally Office 365 offers privacy controls, allowing you to configure who in your organisation has access and what they can access.

Up-to-Date:

Office 365 stays up to date, so you’ll always be working with the latest version of your Office applications, without any extra upgrade cost. In addition Office 365 takes care of all the installing, updating and making sure everything stays in sync, so that you can spend your time working. Also, because your files are automatically saved online, you can access, edit and share the latest versions, even on the go.

Business Benefits:

• Anytime, anywhere access to emails, documents, contacts and calendars, on any device.

• Complete offering of solutions, including desktop productivity apps, online portals, e-mail, voice mail, web conferencing and unified messaging.

• Simple to use communication and collaboration with colleagues and partners.

• Integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office and other Microsoft programs.

• Flexible pricing options that gives you predictability and flexibility for all or part of your organisation.

• Business-class service, including IT admin phone support, financially backed 99.9% uptime guarantee, geo-redundant data centers, disaster recovery, robust security, privacy controls and standards.

For more information about Office 365 and the plans available, or to set up a trial, contact us on 01723 587240.