Microsoft Office 365 Overview

What is Office 365?

The Microsoft Office 365 service offering combines the familiar Office desktop suite with the latest, cloud-based versions of Microsoft next-generation communications and collaboration services: Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Lync Online. These services work together seamlessly to provide the best productivity experience on PCs, phones, and browsers. Office 365 is powered by the same Microsoft email and collaboration products that businesses have been using for decades.

For IT

Office 365 is hosted as an online service in Microsoft's best-of-breed data centers with SAS 70 and ISO 27001 certification.
Information is safeguarded with geo-redundant, enterprise-grade reliability and disaster recovery with multiple datacenters and automatic failovers.
An easy-to-use administration console allows you to stay in control of features, settings, and organization-wide deployment.
Office 365 helps you deliver essential security and control with a familiar experience for IT administrators, and it reduces the time and cost spent on server patching, upgrading, or updating. Office 365 is supported by a financially-backed, 99.9% uptime service level agreement—which demonstrates a Microsoft's commitment to reliability.

For your users

With Office 365, you run always-up-to-date versions of Office Professional Plus, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online so you can deliver the latest productivity solutions to users.
Microsoft provides access 24 hours a day, seven days a week to IT-level support over the phone, the web, or email.
Office 365 provides users with virtually anywhere access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars on nearly any device (including PC, Mac, Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry).

Office 365 Services

Office Professional Plus - Provide your employees with the familiar Office desktop apps and the Office Web Apps seamlessly connected to the cloud and with flexible pay-as-you-go, per-user licensing.

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Exchange Online - Give your organization the power of Exchange email, calendar, and contacts with built-in functionality to help protect against viruses and spam. Your employees can access their mailboxes from virtually anywhere on PCs, the web, and mobile devices.

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SharePoint Online - Help your employees create sites to manage and share important documents and insights with colleagues, customers, and partners; keep teams in sync; and manage important projects—all without the need to set up and run Microsoft SharePoint in your own data center.

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Lync Online - Transform your organization with next-generation communications capabilities including presence, instant messaging (IM), audio/video calling, and rich online meetings with audio, video, and web conferencing.

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Office Web Apps - View, share and edit your Microsoft Office documents on the web with Microsoft Office Web Apps. Using virtually any device connected to the internet*, view your Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote documents online and make basic edits on the go.

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Subscription model

The subscription model for Office 365 provides you with predictable monthly costs and the flexibility to purchase and deploy services at any time.

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