You may have heard from friends or colleagues about Office365 cloud services. We have helped a couple of businesses in moving to the cloud, from planning, migration and user training. This is the game changer in simplifying business operations, it’s the best option for any company’s team to effectively collaborate and stay productive throughout the office and out of office. If you want to work virtually anywhere, Office365 is the way to go.
Benefits of moving to the Office365 cloud;
1: Security.
Microsoft’s online services have been designed with security in mind. Office 365 applications are accessed through encryption so that if a transmission is intercepted by someone without authorization, they won’t be able to read it.
2: Reliability.
After security, the most commonly mentioned area of concern regarding cloud services is reliability. Downtime means lost worker productivity and ultimately costs companies money. Microsoft Online Services provides a service level agreement (SLA) and has a 99.9 percent scheduled uptime.
3: Compatibility.
In today’s economy, many companies can’t upgrade all of their desktop systems to the latest operating system. That’s not necessary to use Office 365. Microsoft Online Services supports not only Windows 7 and Vista (SP2), but also Windows XP SP3. Even XP Home edition or Media Center edition can be used, although it doesn’t support federated identity. Mac users can also access the Office 365 applications, using OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
4: Up-to-date versions.
With Office 365, companies and their users get all the features and functionality of the very latest versions of Microsoft’s server products.
5: Single sign-on.
Assuming your network is running Server 2012 Active Directory on-premises, you can configure Active Directory Federation Services to achieve single sign-on, so that users can log on to the domain and be automatically authenticated to Office 365.
6: Office Web Apps.
Microsoft Office Web Apps is part of Office 365, but it doesn’t take the place of the full-featured Office applications. It supplements them. For sophisticated document creation and manipulation, you need a rich local application. But there are times when you’re away from your Office-equipped computer and need to do a quick edit. That’s where Web Apps come in. No matter where you are or what computer you’re using, you have access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, and you can create or edit content and post it to your SharePoint site or save it in your SkyDrive folder. Source and Credits.