Busy executive's ultimate guide to office 365

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The Busy Executive’s Ultimate Guide to Office 365

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If you are considering Office 365, read this executive summary guide of the reasons to get your office in the cloud as soon as possible.

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The Busy Executive’s

Ultimate Guide to

Office 365

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“My team is telling me they need doing business

to be more mobile and easier. How does moving business into ‘The Cloud’

help us?”

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IT staff needs to focus on the

important projects, instead of the

mundane day to day support.

We all use many different devices in business… Laptops,

tablets, smartphones

People need to work together. Even when they are not in the same place

More than ever we want our IT

expenses to be operating costs, not capital investments.

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It’s Office… It’s in the Cloud… It’s on your Devices… AND it’s some much more…Office 365 is the same Office you already know and use every day. And then some.

Because Office 365 is powered by the cloud, you can get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere—PC, Mac, and tablets—and they're always up to date. Same goes for updates to features—you get them automatically. Lots more info here.

Familiar, only better… Get it done, anywhere… More for your money

BRING YOUR OFFICE INTO THE CLOUD WITH OFFICE 365. THERE ARE MANY WAYS IT WILL HELP YOUR COMPANY AND IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS. THE FAMILIAR MICROSOFT BUSINESS TOOLS YOU ALREADY USE ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE TO LEVERAGE THE POWER OF THE CLOUD.

WHAT IS OFFICE 365?

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Why are businesses leaders like you moving to the cloud?*• 60% of leaders said the cloud aids in freeing up

their valuable people resources from dealing with mundane IT tasks to be able to focus on more valuable strategic tasks

• 93% of leaders indicated cloud technologies increase productivity outside the office

• 57% cited the cloud as enabling a competitive advantage for early adopters

*Source: IDC: Successful Cloud Partners 2-13

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• Anywhere access provides your team with easy access to email, their business content, and the business-ready tools the already use, designed to work on the devices they already have.

• Deal with customer requests immediately and provide the best service, from anywhere.

BE MORE PRODUCTIVE ANYWHERE:

Use the technology that helps your people work better together:

• Technology that understands and facilitates the social aspect of how people get things done these days

• Business tools that are built to work together out of the box and help your team with email, creating and sharing documents, managing projects, and customer meetings

WORK BETTER TOGETHER:

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• All the services work with each other out of the box so you can spend less time integrating solutions and more time working on important projects.

• Data is secure and your systems won’t go down.

SIMPLIFY, AND STAY IN CONTROL:

• Every dollar counts. Invest in the best technology to support the growth of your business.

• Invest in technologies that have the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) but also the highest return in end-user productivity.

• Have predictability of your IT cost each month. Easily scale up and down.• Simplify and automate updates and new deployments. Stay up-to-date to the

latest technologies.

GET MORE FOR YOUR INVE$TMENT:

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Do you have a mobile workforce? Consider adopting cloud technology like Office 365. Whether you just have a few employees who occasionally need to stay at home or have a company-wide flexible working policy which encourages working remotely, ensuring that staff can access Office applications and work from wherever they are (on whatever device they have available) is becoming extremely important in today’s connected world. Business continuity is enhanced when employees are able to carry on with their work seamlessly, even if they’re not at their desk on their regular PC.

WHO NEEDS IT:

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Office 365 provides a subscription to the most up-to-date versions of Microsoft Office software applications (Word, Excel etc). If you’re still relying on an old version of Office, you can now relegate that to the past and bring your business up to speed with the most innovative Microsoft products. Imagine being able to get rid of the office network, if you maintain it purely for the purposes of sharing Office documents. You can dump the old network servers (and the associated costs) as you won’t need them with Office 365. No more worries about networking and the expense of updating software as all the latest security patches are automatically applied.

WHAT DOES IT REPLACE:

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One of the most noticeable ways that adopting Office 365 will bring changes to your business is in terms of flexibility. Your employees can become unfettered from their desks, and be able to use multiple workstations and devices. Flexible working is increasingly becoming an expectation, especially with many younger workers. As your workforce becomes younger, they are coming to expect more freedom in their jobs with regards to location of work. Hand in hand with flexible working is the increasing prevalence of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies amongst forward-thinking organization. BYOD basically enables employees to use their own computing devices for work. Hosted technologies facilitate this cultural shift towards less office-based working practices. Another major advantage of Office 365 lies within its collaborative functionality. Multiple members of a team can work on a project from various locations, using different operating systems or devices. It can even be used with many smartphones and there’s also the added benefit of conferencing software. So, while on the one hand cloud technology can allow people to work together at a distance, it can help bring teams closer together and integrate their working practices more easily on the other.In all, this means increased productivity and less wasted time, which will have a positive impact to your bottom line.

HOW DOES OFFICE 365 CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS:

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WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS:

PRO CON Business-class email and calendaring put

you in sync

If you think of one, please let us know!

Work together with online file storage and

sharing

Online conferencing brings everyone

together

One familiar experience, even on the go

Create Office documents from any browser

Security, compliance, and privacy you can

trust

Reduced IT costs and frustrations

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Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help small and medium businesses realize their full potential.

ABOUT MICROSOFT:

Small and medium businesses benefit from Second Foundation’s help to choose and adopt trusted cloud productivity and business systems to meet clients current and future business needs. The Second Foundation team knows that having the right technology helps businesses find new sources of revenue, improve customer satisfaction and retention, reduce operating costs, improve vendor relationships, gain insight to supply channels, help predict future trends before competitors, and poise organizations for future growth. Second Foundation provides technology based solutions for companies in professional, business, social an d financial services, manufacturing, and distribution sectors . The multi-disciplinary team of chartered accountants, business consultants, project managers, certified developers and technical experts deliver focused solutions to help propel SMBs to the next level of success. Headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Second Foundation works with clients from their offices across North America.

ABOUT SECOND FOUNDATION

Microsoft Dynamics is a line of business management solutions that automates and streamlines financial, customer relationship, and supply chain processes in a way that helps you drive business success.

ABOUT MICROSOFT DYNAMICS:

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