What is Office 365?

Move to the Cloud?

If you are like most small and mid-size businesses, then chances are you've struggled with this issue - and with good reason. After all you've got a lot to think about. What is the cloud really going to cost? Will it enable your people to work how and where they want while keeping you in control? How do you know your data is secure? Don't worry. We hear you.

Your complete office in the cloud.

Office 365 is cloud-based productivity, hosted by Microsoft. At its heart is Office itself-the familiar, rich Office client customers use and love- now offered as a cloud service, so it's always up to date.

But Office 365 is also so much more. It's about bringing enterprise-grade services to organisations of all sizes, from HD video-conferencing to sharing documents to business-class email. Per user licensing means customers can download and use Office on their favourite devices (online or off), while IT administrators keep control over the organisation's workloads from a single, easy to use console. Ultimately, Office 365 delivers tremendous value in one affordable subscription.

Always up-to-date

Empower your people with the full suite of the world's most powerful productivity tools. With Office 365 you always have the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access whether offline or online. Work together in real time and maintain the IT control you need, without compromise.

Every device

Stay productive, even on the go. Install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs and 5 mobile devices. Access, edit, and view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on iPhones, Android phones, and Windows Phones. Use the OneNote, Lync Mobile, and SharePoint Newsfeed apps on most devices.

Every document

Your personalised Office goes where you go. Office links you to your files from virtually anywhere, and your personalised settings roam with you. Go straight to the last page you were working on or consult your personal dictionary, no matter what device you're using.

Everywhere

Stream your personal Office to any PC. Away from your desk? Instantly stream the most up to date version of Office to any Internet-connected PC with Office on Demand. Get temporary access to the full version of your Office applications on any PC, and when you log out your private data goes with you.

Get an Office that's always up-to-date.

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Advanced Email

The gold standard in email productivity

Get business email, contacts and more on your PC, phone, and web browser through Office 365. Take advantage of the most advanced Outlook yet, powered by Microsoft's globally redundant Exchange servers. Stay protected by anti-malware, anti-spam filters and 24/7 IT-level phone support.

All your emails

Keep important data in one place. Office 365 gives each user a 50GB mailbox, meaning your employees save time and have the flexibility to retain email or move items to an In-Place Archive. With powerful retention policies, you can take control of your storage and compliance demands while keeping your users productive.

All your contacts

Keep your contacts in sync across every device, website and application. Office 365 gives you instant access to the most up-to-date contact details and social feeds for the people around you. Keep your contacts safely secured in the cloud and instantly wipe them from lost or stolen devices.

All secure

Eliminate email threats before they reach your network. Exchange Online actively protects your communications with built-in defences against viruses, spam, and phishing attacks. Office 365 can identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data through deep content analysis and inform users about policy violations before they occur.

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Shared Calendars

Office 365 makes it easy to organise your day and stay connected on the go. Calendars stay up-to-date across every device and allow others within the organisation to see your availability. Accept and respond to meeting invites with one click, and share synchronised minutes and notes for every meeting.

Find time

Office 365 makes it easy to see when your team is free. Schedule meetings that work for everyone with support for global timezones and resource planning. Keep track of responses, requests and even the weather conditions for upcoming events.

Schedule with Lync

Schedule Meetings and Conferences right from within Outlook. Set up effective online meetings with multi-party HD video conferencing, real time note taking, and screen sharing with one click.

Stay in sync

Manage your time and resources with ease. Edit an appointment on your phone and see it update on all your devices. Control your own privacy within the organisation and publish calendars online that others can subscribe to.

Stay connected on the go with Office 365.

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Lync

Communicate seamlessly

Connect on the go or create, moderate, and join pre-planned meetings. Communicate using real-time presence, instant messaging, audio, video, screen sharing and virtual whiteboards. Let customers participate in your Lync conference calls even if they are not Office 365 or Lync Online customers.

Presence

Get real-time availability, status, photos and location information with enhanced instant messaging to connect efficiently and effectively. Make voice calls through your computer to other users inside or outside your organisation using Lync or Skype.

HD Video conferencing & sharing

Host online meetings with audio and video using one-click screen sharing and HD video conferencing. Invite up to 250 attendees inside or outside your organisation on the fly, or send out a meeting request with one-click from Outlook.

Lync + Skype

Your address book just got bigger. Lync-Skype connectivity gives your users the ability to communicate with hundreds of millions of Skype users worldwide. Take advantage of the global reach of Skype to connect with suppliers, customers, and partners while still relying on the enterprise richness of Lync.

Communicate seamlessly with Office 365.

SharePoint

Keep everyone working together, wherever they happen to be. Collaborate on documents in real time with teammates, share reports with business partners, back up your files to the cloud and connect with customers on the web. Conveniently add, respond to, and track comments so everyone stays in the know.

Share securely

Share large or confidential files and comment on shared documents from a single location in SharePoint Online. Track changes to important documents and stop sensitive data from leaving your organisation with access controls.

Team Sites

Set up Team Sites and invite contacts from your address book. Work together on projects with and let Office 365 help keep related documents, notes, tasks, and conversations organised together.

Power Business Intelligence

With Power BI it's easier than ever to transform complex data into meaningful insights and share them with your team. Power BI for Office 365 helps users discover, analyse and visualize complex data in a simple manner. Users can then access these live reports on any internet enabled device.

Collaborate in real time with powerful insights.

Big Business IT

Look as professional as you really are

Showing the world how professional your business is has never been so easy. Create documents that will get you noticed, build an eye-catching website in minutes and use email branded with your own domain name. Office 365 gives you simple and easy access to tools used by the world's biggest companies.

Public Websites

Drive customers to your business with an eye-catching, customised website you can build fast and update easily. Use your own domain name and add Share and Comment buttons to reach new customers on social networks. Keep everyone up-to-date with easy-to-use public blogs.

Templates

Create professional looking documents in seconds with Office templates. Browse through thousands of pre-designed documents or find recommended charts and formatting right from the launch screen.

Yammer

Used by 85 per cent of Fortune 500 companies, Yammer is the private social network that helps you and your company stay on top of it all. Get connected to the right people, share information across teams and organise around projects so you can go further and faster.

Look as professional as you are, with Office 365.

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