Microsoft Office has been providing computer users with productivity tools for almost two decades. Today, over a billion people use Office products worldwide. However, for business sector, Office products offers a great deal more than word processing and spreadsheet editing.

Almost every person in the world who used a computer would have definitely came across with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, sent an email through Outlook, messaged someone on Skype. Millions of modern businesses rely on the suite’s dedicated features to communicate, create document every conversation. But there’s a lot more to Office than many users realize, particularly since the release of Office 365.

If you’re considering taking advantage of Office in the cloud, or just want to find out a little more about how office 365 equips businesses with the basic tools they need to perform everyday tasks like managing data, create documents and communicate information

Office 365: Overview

Office 365 is a cloud-based, subscription model version of Microsoft’s famous productivity suite Microsoft Office, Launched in 2001. It contains the same core applications as traditional versions of Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, One-Note and depending on the plan purchased. It may also include other apps and services such as Publisher, Planner, One-Drive, Exchange, SharePoint, Access, Skype, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams.

There are variety of flavors available when licensing Office 365, including versions for education institutions, personal, multi-user households use, students, businesses and non-profits. Users are intended to pay a monthly subscription fee to access the service at a level of their choosing. As Office 365 is entirely based on subscription model, end users will always have access to the latest version available in the market and the platform is updated at Microsoft’s end, whereas making it perpetual. on-premise users on the other hand, would have to buy a copy of the latest edition to be able to use the new features. Office 365 also comes with email hosting and cloud storage space. So users can upload their files online and have access to them wherever & whenever they need to, from any device that connects to the internet.

How it Supports your business:

The Office 365 suite makes performing essential tasks like filtering information, sharing knowledge, communicating with colleagues, pre-processing data, planning, organizing faster and more straightforward, reducing time spent on administrative tasks and leaving businesses more time to create, innovate and move the business forward.  Office 365 does not require any hardware investments. All infrastructure is handled at Microsoft’s end, reducing the need for IT expertise manage the suite in-house and potentially reducing spend on internal IT services.

Applications & services included in Office 365:

Based on the subscription plan enabled, the applications and services offered by Office 365 will vary.  Office 365 applications also have mobile versions to help business do more on the go, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, One-Drive for Business, Skype for Business, Yammer and One-Note. Office 365 subscriptions also include 1 TB of One-Drive for Business cloud storage for each user. But the core applications and services included in the Office 365 are…,

• Word
• Excel
• Outlook
• PowerPoint
• Publisher
• One-Drive for Business
• Skype for Business
• SharePoint
• Microsoft Teams
• Exchange
• One-Note

Features Included in Office 365:

Microsoft wants businesses to increase productivity with its products and they keep pushing collaboration to another level. Some highlighting features of Office 365 includes,1.      Resume Reading your Word documents

• Resume Reading your Word documents
• Chat with co-workers in Office apps
• Turning OneNote items into Outlook calendar events
• Power Map in Excel: Turning data into a map
• Editing and converting to PDF made easy
• Real-Time Co-Authoring (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Inserting links to stored files instead of sending entire files to co-workers
• 50GB of email storage
• Working offline and uploading changes later
• Working anywhere from any device

Office 365 for Business Flavors:

Office 365 for Enterprise Flavors:

System Requirements for Office 365:

Office 365: Security

A company’s data is its most valuable asset and as we’ve seen in numerous high-profile data breach cases in recent years, the consequences of failing to adequately secure business data are severe.Office 365 data is held in Microsoft’s global data centers, where dedicated threat management teams actively anticipate, prevent, and mitigate malicious access 24/7.

All communications are screened with Exchange Online Protection (EOP), and email is encrypted both at rest, and in transit with SSL/TLS. Office 365’s Message Encryption feature enables users to send encrypted email to anyone, no matter which email service recipients use.

We @Layots take care of entire Office 365 implementation, support and migration from other business tools. To learn more about this solution, Visit us !!!