Let’s face it: Microsoft Office products rule the workplace. Whether it’s documenting last quarter’s expenses in an Excel spreadsheet or drafting the big proposal in Word, Microsoft Office has long been a fundamental part of daily business operations. Accepting changes to the structure and familiarity of the productivity suite you’ve used for years can be unsettling. It’s the era of the Cloud, though, and it’s time for you to consider the benefits of Office 365 and cloud computing, and how they can elevate your business to the next level of success and stability.
Increased Accessibility: Office 365 works in the Cloud, which means things like your emails, contacts, and calendars all get synced, no matter what device you use to access them. Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, can have Office 365 installed on them, so that last minute change or email that pops into your head at dinner doesn’t have to wait until the next morning for you to get to the office. Make changes at home, review them at work the next day, and respond to your clients at lunch via email from your phone – it’s all the powerful tools you’re used to on your work desktop, at your fingertips from any device.
Decreased Cost: Office 365 uses a monthly subscription (per user) model of billing. This means your costs for the productivity suite scale exactly to the size of your business. And of course, with everything in the Cloud, local email hosting can become a thing of the past. No more needing to buy massive server racks to host your Exchange server locally, with the immense hardware and labor costs that coincide with local hosting. Microsoft worries about the hosting side of things, with a financially backed 99.9% uptime guarantee. In addition, there’s no more fussing over what the newest version is and how much the licensing will cost, both between license costs and the IT labor cost to upgrade – Microsoft automates these things as a part of your subscription to allow you to focus on the thing that matters: your actual business.
Increased Security: With advanced, HIPAA and military compliant encryption available, Office 365 allows you to embrace being secure without worrying about overhead, infrastructure, and maintenance that usually comes with having and maintaining a secure network. Disaster situations, such as a flood or fire onsite, can bring businesses at which everything is locally hosted to a screeching halt – one that can be permanent for some. If the worst was to happen, wouldn’t it be best to know that your employees can continue their work offsite, with no painful (and costly) downtime?
Office 365 takes all the utility and familiarity of the Microsoft family of products your business has been using for years and combines it with the dramatically increased convenience and security of the Cloud, all while reducing your overhead and eliminating the riskiness of onsite email hosting. Contact us today to find out how you can easily implement Office 365 at your business.
