Office 365 Matters

TERRY O’BRIEN Netbase Solutions

Office 365 is just Office tools in the cloud and I can only use it online The Office Suite, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint et cetera is installed on your device so it’s available even when you are offline but with the added benefit of being licensed, deployed, and automatically updated as a service.

If our data moves to Office 365 in the cloud, IT will no longer have control Besides reducing your capital budget on servers for email and data storage, moving to the cloud means that IT spends time improving business operations, thinking strategically and supporting business managers responsively.

Keeping data on-premises is safer than in Office 365 Security has grown into a full time job, requiring experts on big salaries. Office 365 has ‘military level security measures’ and Microsoft takes security to a scale most companies can only dream about. Data stored onsite will not survive a fire or flood!

I have to move everything to Office 365; it is an all-or-nothing scenario Migrations start with a hybrid approach, moving a single application, like email, and growing from there.

Cloud migration to Office 365 is too much for my business to handle Some people think ‘going cloud’ is too big a challenge. Applications available today are mature and the process is seamless.

Corporate spies, cyber thieves, and governments can access my data in Office 365 A top fear many businesses have about the cloud. You manage access, rights and restrictions, including smartphone access and options. You remain the sole owner: you retain the rights, title, and interest in the data stored in Office 365.

I have to learn all new tools to manage Documents and Files in Office 365 Moving documents and files just means maintaining one point of truth, allowing authorised employees to view files and documents from anywhere, at any time and on any device; learning is minimal.

Skype and Skype for Business are one and the same Skype is great for home use, Skype for Business lets you add up to 250 people to online meetings. Give presentations and attend meetings from one application—from anywhere, and integrated with your Office apps.

Email isn’t any simpler in Office 365 Moving business email to the cloud reduces the maintenance burden on the IT team and ensures your critical email data is backed up, secure and accessible at all times.

Continuously updating Office 365 will break critical business applications Many employees use business critical apps and add-ins with Office. Microsoft is committed to ensuring compatibility with the tools you use every day with Office 365.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Terry O’Brien has been working with ITC and business application for the past 28 years. He now specialises in Office 365, particularly working with small to medium sized businesses. Terry is a Microsoft cloud partner and Telstra partner and works assisting businesses with both set up and maintenance of all things Office 365.

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