Oct 29, 2012

What is Microsoft Office 365? Discuss how it can benefit to Small Businesses?


What is Microsoft Office 365? 

As we are advancing in technology on every single step so it is also important to less our self with latest update technology and keep update from old one. Before I share about Microsoft office 365, I would like to take you to the history of Microsoft Office how it grown up significantly from beginning to till today. As we all know that MS office is very strongly used for various purposes to record the information in different formats and file such as Word for content, Excel for numbers, Powerpoint for presentation, MS Access for database and so on. 


Microsoft Office 365: Time is very precious for each one of us and we are advancing in technology day by day to do many things in short span of time with effective quality too.  In one word ‘Do more in less time’. Microsoft 365 enables us to access email, important documents, contacts, and calendar anywhere and any device. Due to this special feature it is very helpful for small businesses too.  User can easily access the data from PCs, Mac computers, iPhones, Android phones, and BlackBerry smart phones at anytime. It is true that data is flowing all the time in these smart phones. Now you can ask for any data at any movement as per your need. This advanced feature is really very helpful for small businesses. 


You can select the tools as per your choice on which you want to work in Office 365. It is easy to work and learn with Microsoft 365 because the programs you already know and use with Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.  You can also find strong security features,   improved collaboration capabilities, with password-protected portal to protect your data from unauthorized users.


Let us discuss some important benefit of Microsoft 365 to Small Businesses


1. Global Accessibility: It means you can access Office 365 documents such as email, important documents, contacts, and calendar from anytime, anywhere at any device such as PCs, Macintosh computers, iPhones, Android phones, and BlackBerry smartphones. So you are free to work as per your desired location. Office 365 also supports you to view and edit documents from the most popular web browsers on PCs and Macintosh computers. Take control of when and where you work with Office 365.  


2. Very Professional look and feel: It is a nice way to leave a good impression on your client by showing seriousness about your business with effective presentation. Office 365 tells potential customers that you’re serious about business. 


3. Secured Communication and Collaborate Within and Outside of Organization: Microsoft Office 365 helps you to keep very smooth and secure communication within and outside of the organization it creates a password-protected portal to share with everyone within and outside of your organization. You can take control on every document and edit it according to your choice as it’s gives you control over the document.


4. Quickly you can learn & use: You don’t need to do any crash course to work with Office 365 because it is very easy to learn and working is also very easy. 


5. Secure Online Solution: Various advanced features of Microsoft 365 can enhance your small-business and Office experience such as now you can attached attach up to 25 MB, calendaring, contacts, online meetings, instant messaging, document collaboration, and more.


 6. Safe and Secure: Whenever we say data then the first though which comes to mind is security. Security is always the high priority at Microsoft. With Office 365, you can use the same systems used by Microsoft and other enterprises worldwide to help protect email, documents, and networks. 


7. Familiar environment: Office 365 looks and feel are very similar to previous Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These tools provide the same great features you rely on as well as powerful capabilities in Office 365. 


8.  No Requirement for Advanced IT Knowledge:  Even users who don’t have IT background can easily access Office 365 so your employees can quickly start using Office 365. 


9.  Strict Privacy Policy: You can feel a comfortable feeling because Office 365 promises to safeguard your data with enterprise-grade reliability, disaster recovery capabilities, data centers in multiple locations with strict privacy policy. 


10.  Get more Flexibility:  You can add more flexibility to your small business with Office 365. It allows you to easily provide users with only the services they need, cost-effectively adding value to your business.