MS Office 365

Office 365 is Microsoft’s new collaboration and productivity portfolio delivered via the cloud. Everyone can work together easily with anywhere access to email, web conferencing, documents, and calendars underpinned by robust security features.

Microsoft Office 365 for small businesses is an set of web-enabled tools that let you access your email, documents, contacts, and calendar from almost anywhere and almost any device.These tools include Microsoft Office Web Apps ( which are web versions of the Microsoft Office desktop like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.) With Office Web Apps you can also create and edit documents on any PC with a web browser.

The Office 365 portal gives you effectively instant access to your email and your organizations shared documents.

If you have access to the Internet, you have access to Office 365.

Your Office 365 account includes storage on Microsoft servers. Users can read their email in the Outlook desktop app as they always have, or you can read email in Microsoft Outlook Web App.

Users can create contacts to email address, street address, and telephone number.

Users can use the calendar to store appointments and set up meetings with colleagues. When you set up a meeting, you can use the calendar to see your schedule and to find times that your colleagues are available as well. You can then send a meeting request to your colleagues.

Once you have added people to your list of contacts, you can talk with them directly from your web browser using the Outlook Web App.

Office 365 generates a team site where colleaques can collaborate on documents and share information. The team site is maintained using Microsoft SharePoint Online, where the team can store documents in one location.

Storing documents on SharePoint Online helps maintain security, allows version control, and gives you the option to edit and view the documents in Office desktop apps or Office Web Apps . In addition to collaborating on documents, users can also share images, lists and blogs.

You can still use the Microsoft Office desktop apps on your computer. You can connect a variety of mobile devices that can synchronize information with Office 365 using the device to send and receive email and access calendar information.

Why Use Office 365?

Office 365 is designed specifically for smaller businesses and professionals who are looking for cloud-based productivity tools without being responsible for all the support issues

Work from virtually anywhere you have access to the internet.
Rich client access via the Office applications.
Allows you toview and edit documents with Office Web Apps across a multiple browsers
Access email from most browsers with Outlook Web App.
Access mail, contacts, calendar, and SharePoint® sites from mobile devices including
Conduct online meetings with colleagues, partners, and customers, including audio, video and screen sharing.
Create sites to store your important office documents and work together with colleagues, partners, and customers.
Share your calendar with colleagues, partners, and customers.
Share important business information, including Access databases.
Edit documents with your colleagues in real time
Office Web Apps allow Easy access, view, and edit documents directly from a web browser.

View and make edits to Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents in real time

Collaborate with multiple colleagues to edit, build and annotate in real time
Create additional site to store important documents with colleagues and customers
Connect with partners across organizations with calendar sharing, photos and contact cards

Office Key Product capabilities

For those of you who want to know the technical capabilities. I t is summarized below

Exchange Email. Calendar, Contacts and Personal Archive
25 GB Mailbox
Active Sync Mobile Support
SharePoint Team sites
Office Web Apps
Basic Public Web site
Online version of Access databases
Lync Rich Client
Online Meetings
Desktop Sharing
Multiparty IM and PC to PC Calling

The Full set of available tools are described below:

Office Professional Plus

Microsoft offer a pay as you go licencing per user
Complete Office with integrated service
Automatically latest version of Office apps

SharePoint Online

Is a collaboration, sharing, and document editing service using internal and external sites. It can also be used to create public-facing Web sites.
Store documents and share using personal My sites

You Share documents, schedules and task lists to keep staff synchronized
Users can create sites to share information securely
Note each site has a 10GB limit + 500 MB per user

Exchange Online

A 25 GB Mailbox
Both Outlook and Outlook Web application
Comprehensive and automatic Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Software
Shared Calendars, Contacts and Tasks
Mobile email options for most major of mobile Devices

Lync online

Lync Online provides communications features including, instant messaging, presence information Computer-to-Computer audio/video calling and online meetings. Easy to use PC audio, video and web conferencing with application sharing, whiteboards, and other collaboration tools Lync Online also supports presence information and click-to-communicate features inside Microsoft Office applications. Instant messaging and presence

Computer to Computer Video and Audio calling and screen sharing
Online Meetings, screen sharing and video conferencing
Single click meeting creation to join from Outlook, SharePoint AND OFFICE APPLICATIONS
Automatic calendar integration with Outlook and Exchange