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The Office 365 product includes Exchange, Teams, Office, and SharePoint, plus such newcomers as Power BI, PowerApps, Flow, Sway, and many, many others. There are probably a few souls out there who are absolute experts on all these technologies, but the fact is, to maintain such enterprise software, you need a fairly significant team.
To go deeper into the various apps that come with Office 365, check out “Office 365 Apps For Dummies by Rosemarie Withee”.
Microsoft has made managing software systems easier by introducing products, such as Small Business Server, but the fact is that managing software is still a complicated endeavor. With Office 365, you remove that complexity by using a simple web interface to manage the various products. Need to create a new SharePoint site collection? You do it from within the Office 365 interface. Need to create retention rules for email? Again, the Office 365 management screens for Exchange are where you will find them. Microsoft engineers perform all the difficult responsibilities that go into keeping the lights blinking green on the servers. You just use the software in a way that best suits your business needs.
Anywhere Access
Office 365 lives in Microsoft’s data centers and is accessed over the Internet. For this reason, you have connectivity to your enterprise software by using your desktop computer in your office, your laptop, or your mobile phone. In addition, all you need is an Internet connection rather than a special connection to your corporate network.
Having access to the software you use every day from anywhere provides a tremendous value and efficiency increase. When you have access, you can take advantage of unintended downtime. For example, you might be stuck waiting for someone and instead of just daydreaming away the time you could pull out your phone and respond to emails or tweak a Word or PowerPoint document. You will no longer feel that nagging urge that you need to get back to your desk to get work done. After all, other people might be waiting for you to respond so that they can do their job. In this way, you are not only maintaining your own efficiency during your downtime, but you are unblocking the people that require your input in order to maintain their efficiency and do their jobs. And, because Microsoft has embraced multiple operating systems, you can find your Office 365 apps on all your standard mobile devices such as iOS and Android.
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