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Office 365 is your “on demand” cloud computing service provider. This means that you pay only for the capacity that you need at any given period. If you need 100 user accounts during the peak season of the business, then you pay for those 100 accounts. During the lean months when you only need 10 user accounts, you only need to pay for those 10. You don’t have to own the infrastructure with capacity good for 100 users all the time. It’s like paying for metered services just like you do for electricity and water.
So if you love saving money and paying only for what you use, you’ll love Office 365.
You’re a Tree Hugger (or Wannabe)
From recycling to composting to carpooling to driving hybrid cars, you’ve put in your share of effort to encourage a green workplace. Yet you still feel a yearning in your heart to do more. Listen to your heart because you’re right; you can do more.
Logic dictates that shifting to the cloud will reduce IT carbon emissions footprint through data center efficiencies. And the good news? Microsoft’s modular data centers consume 50 percent less energy than traditional data centers.
This means that if you subscribe to Office 365, you’ll do the environment a favor through the reduction of your company’s energy consumption from unneeded hardware, elimination of packaging peanuts and bubble wraps from packaged software, and doing away with paper printouts since your content can now be shared in full fidelity in the cloud.
You Don’t Say “No” to Opportunities
We all want a work/life balance and would rather not do business while on vacation. But, if opportunity knocks in the form of a potential investor when you’re on vacation and strolling on the beach, do you really want to ignore that knock?
Although it may be true that success is in large part due to luck, it’s also true that the harder you work, the luckier you get. With Office 365, you don’t have to work harder, just smarter!
For example, say you’re vacationing in a remote village in Asia when, to your sur- prise, you meet someone interested in investing in your start-up company. You
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