Office 365 for Business is Microsoft’s complete productivity suite that ensures you’re always up-to-date and will never have to buy a new version of Office again.
And, it’s in the Cloud so it’s available to you from any device, anywhere.
What Can You Do with Office 365?
Just about anything you want!
Business-Class Email
Get large, 50GB mailboxes that can send messages up to 25MB in size. Access shared calendars, and spam and malware protection that stays up to date. Built with Exchange email technology, the leading email solution for business around the world. Use your own custom domain for your professional email address, connect with Outlook for fully featured offline support, and access email via any modern web browser. Available on your PC or Mac, as well as Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry devices.
Online Meetings
Hold scheduled or ad hoc online meetings for up to 250 participants, with screen sharing, audio and video, virtual whiteboards, polls, and shared notes. Partners and customers can fully participate through any HTML5 browser.
Online Document Storage and File Sharing
Get 1TB of space in the cloud to store, backup and easily share files. Files are accessible from almost any device, also synchronized offline and available without an internet connection.
Private Social Networking and Collaboration
Set up a social network that helps your company stay connected, share information across teams, and make faster, more informed decisions.
Simplify Your IT Management
Reduce headaches by reducing your IT infrastructure. Your content lives safely in globally distributed data centers with continuous backup and disaster recovery abilities.
Productivity Tools
Co-Authoring Made Easy
Collaborate in Real-Time
How to Install Office 365
It can be a bit tedious to install Office 365, but at Pointivity, we’ve made it easy with this step-by-step guide.
Migrating Office 365 to the Cloud
Installation is done. Now, what will you do with the 500 mailboxes and thousands of documents that need to be migrated? Check out these resources we’ve developed to help you with the process.
Administrative Tools for Office 365
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The Admin Center in Office 365 — A Unified Dashboard
Via this dashboard, sysadmins can:
What Are Some Office 365 Integrations Out There?
Zapier
Zapier has more than 1,000 apps that integrate with Office 365 including one that will let you add new Office 365 events to ToDoist as tasks and another that lets you create Trello cards from new Office 365 emails.
Adobe PDF Services
Adobe’s PDF services are now available from the ribbon inside the web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. As Office 365 business users, you can convert documents into PDFs and preserve formatting, layouts, font choices, and password protection.
Find and read LinkedIn profiles from within Office 365 using mouse-overs and other features. Use profile data for lead prospecting and getting to “know” someone’s business background before an interview or meeting.
HubSpot
Use add-ons to integrate Office 365 with HubSpot in Windows. The HubSpot Sales Office 365 add-on and Outlook desktop add-on work in your Outlook account. Send logged and tracked emails, get access to contact profiles, and use HubSpot sales tools right within your inbox.
Asana
Integrate with Asana to keep work front and center. Use it with Microsoft Teams to chat with the team about a project, and see all the project’s tasks. Manage and assign important details like who tasks are assigned to and when they’re due.
Office 365 Case Studies
Jemco Components & Fabrication
Jemco Components & Fabrication makes complex parts for spaceships. When it switched to Office 365, the company’s unofficial IT support person cut support time by 90%. And its communication cycle is now 88% quicker.
Wavemaker
U.K.-based Wavemaker, a large advertiser, has offices in 90 countries. It found collaboration easier, faster, and more effective using Microsoft OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, and Teams.
Harvard University Law School
Harvard University Law School uses Office 365 for email, OneDrive, and Skype for Business.
Assurant
Global risk-management firm Assurant found field agents were able to update claims in near real-time with Office 365. Field staff appreciated using their own devices, while knowing that data was secure.
ThermoFisher Scientific
ThermoFisher Scientific found IT maintenance decreased considerably once all 65,000 employees were on Office 365. Not only that, all of these employees were now able to collaborate much more effectively.
Korn Ferry
Recruiter Korn Ferry wanted to move its 10,000-plus mailboxes to the cloud, and found that a managed service provider was the key to success.
Office 365 Reviews from Experts & Customers
TechRadar says, “Office 365 is a simple and cost-effective way to get a powerful range of cloud Office services plus access to regular new features in desktop Office 2016. Microsoft is doing well in terms of making useful improvements on a regular basis, although some fresh tools are basic and some changes are a step backwards.”
“Capterra, the software rating site, has 1400 customer reviews for Office 365 with an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars.”
“Read customer feedback about Office 365 from Microsoft’s user site and from the G2Crowd site where users gave it 4.4 out of 5 stars.”
PC Magazine says “Microsoft Office, whether installed as a standalone set of apps or as part of the subscription-based Office 365 service, is the colossus of office suites.”
Cost of Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 pricing as of July 2018 follows:
Office 365 Business Essentials
with an annual commitment
5.00 per month per user
(Office Apps Not Included)
Office 365 Business
with an annual commitment
8.25 per month per user
(Business Email Not Included)
Office 365 Business Premium
with an annual commitment
12.50 per month per user
(All Inclusive)
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