Office 365 Overview

Agenda
• What are the challenges today
• What is Office 365
• What are the major components of Office 365
• Major benefits to a small business
• Customer example
• Questions
What Companies Want to Achieve
The workplace is evolving and the way we do
business is changing…

Advances Rise in social Greater demand

in mobile media is for flexible,
changing cloud based
technology expectations
computing

Employees BYOD device –

want to work Predictable more sophisticated,
how they want monthly diverse and varied
and where per-user cost range of mobile
they want devices
Enterprise communications are becoming more
sophisticated, diverse and increasingly challenging
to control

Ensuring a consistent
Increased Controlling costs
experience for
complexity is challenging
all consumers

Providing reliable, Maintaining current The drive to embrace

secure and effective in-house solutions cloud computing
connectivity
What is Office 365?
• Office 365 is a suite of subscription based services offered by
Microsoft

• Office 365 is the same Office you already know and use every
day, but with a slightly different interface and many more
features

• Office 365 is powered by the cloud, so you can access your

applications and files from virtually anywhere (desktops, tablets,
mobile phones), and they're always up to date
 Powerful enterprise-class tools from
Microsoft
Microsoft Office
Applications you
know and trust
The latest versions of
Microsoft Office
applications, seamlessly
connected and delivered
Access documents, email,
and calendars from virtually
any device
Skype for Business Online OneDrive for Business
Microsoft Exchange Microsoft SharePoint
Connect your people, Take control of your Store your own
Simultaneous,
wherever they are communications files
effortless collaboration
Store and share your own
documents in the cloud
Provides next-generation Enables rich and familiar Create sites to share
communications access to email, calendar, Sync to your devices
documents and information
capabilities, including contacts and tasks across with colleagues
Access and
from anywhere
Presence, Instant PCs, the web and mobile customers
Messaging (IM), and PC- devices
to-PC audio and video
calling
And There Is More!
• Exchange Online Archiving
• Yammer
• Private social media
• Power BI
• Companion Office Applications
• Visio
• Project
• Sway
• Create and share interactive reports and presentations
• Delve
• Discover information most relevant to yourself across O365
Use Office on your Devices
• Access
documents, email,
calendar and
contacts with
Office applications
optimised for your
PC or Mac…
• As well as your
tablet and
smartphone.
• Upto 5 devices per
user.
Major Benefits for Small Business

Gain an Enterprise Reduce In-house

Simple Pricing
Class Solution Costs
Model

Providing reliable, Meeting demands License user, not the device

secure and effective for flexible working Which is always up to date
connectivity
Start Simple and Build Up
• Start with one component and introduce others when ready
• Vast majority of customers start with Exchange and Email
• Make the most of your ROI
• Skype for Business
• SharePoint
Customer Example
Customer & Challenges
• Fence and Shed retailer
• Multiple sites across Dorset, Hampshire, Devon and Somerset
• Challenges
• Each site was acting as an “island” and not really communicating
• Although emails were used, options like sharing of calendar info was not
possible
• Mailboxes had a limit of 2GB in size
• The inability to share items such as work schedules was leading to duplicate
and miscommunicated work
• Running on old unreliable hardware at the head office with limited or no
backup
• The compliance with Microsoft licensing was not fully known!
Solution Provided
• Office 365 Business Premium and Exchange online
• Microsoft Office & Skype for Business
• Exchange Online
• SharePoint
• Migration of the existing email from the on-site mail solution
• Minimal disruption to the customer
• Installation, configuration and setup of Office 365 across all
sites
• Decommission of the old hardware
Benefits to Customer
• Access to email anywhere
• Huge 50GB mailbox for each user
• Presence available, see who was available at other branches
• The ability to view calendars and see staff appointments
• With SharePoint online Work Schedules are synchronised
across the branches
• Microsoft licensing is up to date, paying for what they are using
THANK YOU