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Microsoft understands if you aren’t fully comfortable about letting it do the heavy lifting. In my opinion, it is the best scenario. After all, who better to handle man- aging software products than the same people who built them? To address some of the questions, however, Microsoft has extensive service level agreements to help put your mind at ease.
IT control and efficiency
If you have ever met an IT person, you might have generalized one thing about him or her. IT people are control freaks. They like to know exactly what everyone is doing with their systems at all times. If something goes wrong, then it is prob- ably due to user error. Our systems do what they are supposed to do. Microsoft has gone out of its way to create an unprecedented level of control for administrators. But that is not all. Not only do administrators have control over the environment, but it is actually designed to be simple in nature and, get this, intuitive.
Getting Familiar with Office 365 Products
The Office 365 product is actually a package of products rented on a monthly basis. In particular, these include Office, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, Teams, Dynamics, and Power BI.
The online part just means that you access these server products over the Internet. If your IT team were to buy these products and install them for your use in the company data center, then they would be called on premise.
Microsoft Office
Finding someone who doesn’t use some aspect of Microsoft Office on a daily basis is difficult. Whether it is Outlook for email, Word for creating and editing docu- ments, Excel for manipulating and mining data, and PowerPoint for creating and making presentations, these old standbys seem to dominate the life of the modern-day information worker.
The newest version of Office came out in 2019. When you have Office 365, you pay on a monthly basis and can always be assured you have the latest version of Office installed on your device.
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