Thursday, 12 February 2015 Blog ehdf

Staying Smart and Connected with Microsoft Office 365

We’ve all heard of Microsoft Office, and experienced its benefits. The new cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 is even better. It’s powered by the cloud and enables you to access Microsoft’s collaboration and productivity tools from anywhere and at any time—including smartphones and tablets.

Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of Microsoft Office 365:

Anytime, Anywhere Access: Office 365 provides web-enabled access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendar on almost any device. It frees you to work where and when you choose, letting you respond to important requests right away, from almost any location

Easy Communication & Collaboration: With Office 365, you can create a password-protected portal to share large, hard-to-email files both inside and outside of your organization, giving you a single location to find the latest versions of files or documents, no matter how many people are working on them

Seamless Coordination: Office 365 works seamlessly with the programs you already know and use, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Flexibility: With Office 365, you get pay-as-you-go pricing options that give you predictability and flexibility for your business

Security: Data in Office 365 is secured in 5 layers – data, application, host, network, and physical. The visibility and instant access it provides to organizations is strongly protected against malware, spam and threats, guaranteeing 99.9 percent uptime

Other Solutions: You can enhance your Office experience with Office 365 features like a 50-gigabyte mailbox that accommodates attachments up to 25 megabytes, calendaring, contacts, online meetings, instant messaging, document collaboration, and much more

Did you know?

1. Office for iPad had more than 12 million downloads within the first week of launch

2. Microsoft tracks their data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

3. According to Gregersen, approximately 25% of Fortune 500 companies are using Office 365, as well as 60% of financial companies and 70% of manufacturers

4. Office 365 offers Onedrive, a personal online storage for an enterprises’ employees, offering unlimited space