Office 365 - it all works together

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It all works together

Have you explored the full features and benefits of Office 365 yet?

Benefits

  • Safe and secure

  • IT is in control

  • Return on investment

  • In the cloud, on premises, or both

  • We make it easy for you

Safe and secure

With Office 365 your data is safer, thanks to robust disaster recovery capabilities, globally-redundant backups, and extensive privacy features.  And your users are highly protected against spam and viruses with filters.

  • Office 365 safeguards your data with enterprise-grade reliability, continuous data back-ups, disaster recovery capabilities, globally-redundant data centers, and a strict privacy policy.

  • Get the peace of mind that your services are available and highly protected 24/7 with an industry-leading, financially-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee.

  • Microsoft Exchange Online with built-in Forefront Online Protection for Exchange email protection. Your users are highly protected from viruses, spam and phishing attacks with our multi-engine antivirus and multi-layered spam technologies.

    Security in Office 365 Whitepaper

    Learn about Microsoft's comprehensive approach to security with Office 365, from developing more highly secure services with the Security Development Lifecycle to how we run our global data centers.

IT is in control

Office 365 provides easy-to-use, cloud-based management tools in a single location – and we’re available 24x7 to provide IT-level support.

Return on investment

Office 365 brings together our industry leading Office 2010 applications with enterprise-grade cloud-based email, calendar, instant messaging, web conferencing and document sharing.

  • Give your business access to the power of enterprise-grade productivity services for a predictable monthly cost and no upfront infrastructure investments.  

  • Pay for just the services you need, and scale to meet new business requirements almost instantly. Learn more about Office 365 plans.

  • Forecast IT expenditures more accurately with predictable, pay-as-you-go costs. Try the Cost Estimator to estimate the cost of various service plans and identify the best plan for your business needs.

In the cloud, on premises, or both

For larger businesses with even more advanced IT needs, Office 365 enables you to get the cloud on your terms with flexible deployment options. Migrate to Office 365 at your own pace or setup your deployment to meet specific compliance, security or operational needs.

  • Take advantage of hybrid capabilities that let you put some users on Office 365 and keep others on-premises, maintaining a unified directory and seamless calendaring.

  • Use advanced features like email archiving, multi-mailbox search, role-based access control, and legal hold to help your businesses stay in compliance.

  • Automate email and document retention by setting up policies that help retain critical information while reducing the expense and risk associated with storing information beyond its useful life.

  • Integrate line of business applications with Office 365 using Exchange Web Services and remote PowerShell.

Microsoft has helped enterprise businesses successfully move to the cloud

Microsoft Enterprise Solutions are built on a unified productivity platform that's not only cost-effective, but gives you the agility to respond as business needs evolve. Your users can use Microsoft tools and applications they're familiar with to work from virtually anywhere*. With the choice and flexibility of cloud computing, your business can deploy services on-premises, in the cloud, or a blend of both.

We make it easy for you

  • An easy-to-use administration console lets your IT staff focus on user productivity, strategic planning and organisation-wide deployment while Microsoft manages the risks and complexity of the backend.

  • Count on 24/7 IT-level professional support from Microsoft to help ensure you maintain your IT promises to your users.

  • Some Office 365 service plans provide always-current updates to Office Professional Plus, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online, so IT is always offering the latest productivity services to users.

  • Don't have an IT team? Draw upon the Microsoft Partner ecosystem to find trained teams that can provide rapid Office 365 deployment, administration outsourcing, and integration with your existing IT infrastructure.

 

For more info on pricing and plans, a cost estimator, case study videos and more, visit Office 365.