Office 365 for midsize businesses and enterprises
Your employees get the productivity tools they want, while your IT uses a single
administration console to manage features, policies and monitor service health from
virtually anywhere* with one easy-to-use, cloud-based tool. All with the security,
24x7 support and reliability you expect from Microsoft.
Benefits
Safe and secure
With Office 365 your data is safer, thanks to robust disaster recovery capabilities,
globally-redundant backups, and extensive privacy features. And your users are highly
protected against spam and viruses with filters.
- Office 365 safeguards your data with enterprise-grade reliability, continuous data
back-ups, disaster recovery capabilities, globally-redundant data centers, and a
strict privacy policy.
- Get the peace of mind that your services are available and highly protected 24/7
with an industry-leading, financially-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee.
- Microsoft Exchange Online with built-in Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
email protection. Your users are highly protected from viruses, spam and phishing
attacks with our multi-engine antivirus and multi-layered spam technologies.
IT is in control
Office 365 provides easy-to-use, cloud-based management tools in a single location
– and we’re available 24x7 to provide IT-level support.
- No more server patching, updating, or upgrading – Office 365 takes care of
it.
- Give everyone access to the information they need while maintaining proper level
of control of sensitive information.
- Take an interactive tour of the Office 365 administrator portal.
Return on investment
Office 365 brings together our industry leading Office 2010 applications with enterprise-grade
cloud-based email, calendar, instant messaging, web conferencing and document sharing.
- Give your business access to the power of enterprise-grade productivity services
for a predictable monthly cost and no upfront infrastructure investments.
- Pay for just the services you need, and scale to meet new business requirements
almost instantly. Learn more about Office 365 plans.
- Forecast IT expenditures more accurately with predictable, pay-as-you-go costs.
Try the Cost Estimator to estimate the cost of various service plans and identify
the best plan for your business needs.
In the cloud, on premise, or both
For larger businesses with even more advanced IT needs, Office 365 enables you to
get the cloud on your terms with flexible deployment options. Migrate to Office
365 at your own pace or setup your deployment to meet specific compliance, security
or operational needs.
- Take advantage of hybrid capabilities that let you put some users on Office 365
and keep others on-premises, maintaining a unified directory and seamless calendaring.
- Use advanced features like email archiving, multi-mailbox search, role-based access
control, and legal hold to help your businesses stay in compliance.
- Automate email and document retention by setting up policies that help retain critical
information while reducing the expense and risk associated with storing information
beyond its useful life.
- Integrate line of business applications with Office 365 using Exchange Web Services
and remote PowerShell.
Microsoft has helped enterprise businesses successfully move
to the cloud
Microsoft Enterprise Solutions are built on a unified productivity platform that's
not only cost-effective, but gives you the agility to respond as business needs
evolve. Your users can use Microsoft tools and applications they're familiar with
to work from virtually anywhere*. With the choice and flexibility of cloud computing,
your business can deploy services on-premises, in the cloud, or a blend of both.
We make it easy for you
- An easy-to-use administration console lets your IT staff focus on user productivity,
strategic planning and organization-wide deployment while Microsoft manages the
risks and complexity of the backend.
- Count on 24/7 IT-level professional support from Microsoft to help ensure you maintain
your IT promises to your users.
- Some Office 365 service plans provide always-current updates to Office Professional
Plus, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online, so IT is always offering
the latest productivity services to users.
- Don't have an IT team? Draw upon the Microsoft Partner ecosystem to find trained
teams that can provide rapid Office 365 deployment, administration outsourcing,
and integration with your existing IT infrastructure.
- Access from mobile devices requires Wi-Fi capability or depends on carrier network
availability.
The world's leading productivity tools in a form that fits your business, today
and tomorrow. A version of Microsoft Office delivered as a flexible service and
supported by cloud-connected Office 365 services, Office Professional Plus is our
most complete productivity experience
Exchange Online offers email, calendar and contacts designed to provide your business
with the control you want and the security and reliability you need. With Exchange
Online, you run your email on our globally-redundant servers, protected by built-in
antivirus and anti-spam filters and unlimited, IT-level phone support 24 hours a
day, seven days a week in your local language.
Keep teams in sync. SharePoint Online gives you a central place to share documents
and information with colleagues and customers. Designed to work with familiar Office
applications, it’s easy to save documents directly to SharePoint, and work
together on proposals and projects in real-time because you have access to the documents
and information you need from virtually anywhere.*
Lync Online is a next-generation cloud communications service that connects people
in new ways from anywhere by using presence, instant messaging, audio/video calling,
and rich online meetings with audio, video, and web conferencing.
Office Web Apps are convenient online companions to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote that offer you an easy way to access,
view, and edit documents directly from your web browser.