Microsoft Office 365

Office 365: What is it?

Microsoft® Office 365 for small businesses is an easy-to-use set of web-enabled tools that let you access your email, important documents, contacts, and calendar from almost anywhere and any device—including PCs, Macintosh computers, iPhones, Android phones, and BlackBerry smartphones. Designed to meet the needs of a diverse range of small businesses, Office 365 lets you choose which tools to use; or have SouthTech make recommendations based on your specific needs - contact one of our Office 365 professionals today.

Office 365: Benefits

• Works seamlessly with the programs you already know and use, including Microsoft Outlook®, Microsoft Word®, Microsoft Excel®, and Microsoft PowerPoint®
• Is easy to try and simple to learn, and it works with your existing hardware
• Offers improved collaboration capabilities, including a password-protected portal to share large, hard-to-email files both inside and outside of your organization
• Includes powerful security features from Microsoft to help protect your data
• Backed with a 99.9-percent uptime guarantee

Office 365: Do More with Less

Want better tools to help you and your staff work more productively, without the headache of complex technology? The familiar messaging and collaboration services in Microsoft® Office 365 will help you get more done, more quickly—no matter where you’re working from or whom you’re working with. Because Office 365 provides a web-based alternative to traditional software, you won’t even have to worry about installing and managing your own server hardware and software. 

Office 365: Tools

Microsoft Office Professional Plus

Powered by Office 365, Microsoft Office Professional Plus (Microsoft Office Web Apps) are convenient online companions to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote that offer you an easy way to access, view, and edit documents directly in your web browser.

• Flexible service offering with pay-as-you-go, per-user licensing
• The complete Office experience with services integration in Office 365
• Simplified user set-up to preconfigure services
• Always the latest version of the Office apps, including Office Web Apps
• Familiar Office user experience to access services

Microsoft Exchange Online

Microsoft Exchange Online gives you access to Office 365 tools such as Microsoft Office Professional Plus including email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at any time.

• Rich browser experience with new Outlook Web App
• Improved Inbox management with Conversation View
• Integrated multi-mailbox search and retention policies
• New personal email archiving and compliance capabilities
• Greater IT control with new GUI and Remote Power Shell

Microsoft SharePoint Online

With SharePoint Online, Office 365 enables you to access and share documents and insights, contacts, calendars, and tasks in a single location and from a shared computer or smartphone.

• Manage and share important documents with colleagues
• Share personal insights and status updates with colleagues
• Keep teams in sync and manage important projects.
• Find important documents and people easily
• Stay up to date with company information and news
• Market your business with a simple public-facing web site

Microsoft Lync Online

Microsoft Lync Online helps you find and quickly connect with the right person through instant messaging (IM), Lync video calls, or online meetings from within Office 365 - the Office applications you already use every day.

• Combines 1:1 text/voice/video chat with multiparty online meetings in a single application and service
• Escalate conversations into ad-hoc online meetings with audio, video, PPT upload, and desktop sharing
• Simplified access for external meeting participants
• Contact photos and activity feeds
• Federation with Windows Live Messenger
• Communicate with external organizations running Lync through Lync federation

Office 365: Why?

• 40 million+ paying customers of Microsoft Online Services including 50% of Fortune 500 companies
• 20+ years experience in building enterprise software
• 16,000 partners committed to Microsoft Office 365
• Global reach: Microsoft Office 365 available in 40 countries and localized into 20 languages
• Same best in class features found in Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and the Office Web Apps
• Seamless transition and experience for end users
• Anywhere access across phones, browsers and PCs
• Right offers for the right users
• Power of choice: on-premises, online or hybrid
• Continuous innovations every 90 days
• Major and minor update policy respectful to IT pro need for control
• Service delivery platform approach enabling new services across Microsoft and partners