Microsoft 6GQ-00024, 6GQ00024 manual Introduction

Introduction

Microsoft Office 365 for small businesses is a set of Web-enabled tools that lets you access your e-mail, important documents, contacts and calendars from virtually anywhere and on almost any device. Designed for organisations with 5 to 50 staff, the service brings together online versions of the best communications and collaboration tools from Microsoft plus Microsoft Office Web Apps at a price that small businesses can afford. Office 365 works seamlessly with the programs you already know and use

—Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. This is the much-anticipated cloud service that gives small businesses the capabilities and efficiencies to grow and target more rapid success.

Powerful security features from Microsoft Corp. help protect your data, and when the service is released for general availability, it will be backed with a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee. Office 365 was designed to be easy enough for small businesses to run without specialized IT knowledge.

Why Office 365 is Right for Your Organisation

Virtually Anytime, Anywhere Access

Office 365 helps you access your e-mail, important documents, contacts and calendar on nearly any device from almost anywhere. It frees you to work where and when you choose, allowing you to respond to important requests right away, no matter where you are. Because you can use your mobile device to access e-mail and documents, you won’t have to hurry back to the office (or look for a Wi-Fi hot spot if you are using your computer). When traveling, you can access your e-mail and even edit online documents from most popular Web browsers.1

Easy to Use

Office 365 is easy to try, simple to learn and straightforward to use. It works seamlessly with the programs you know and use most, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. With Office 365, you can choose which tools to use.

Improved Collaboration

With Office 365, you can create a password-protected portal to share large, hard-to- e-mail files both inside and outside your organization, giving you a single location to find the very latest versions of files or documents, no matter how many people are working on them.

Security and Reliability

Powerful security features from Microsoft help protect your data, and Office 365 will be backed with a 99.9 percent uptime, financially backed guarantee when commercially released (general availability). Office 365 helps safeguard your data with enterprise-grade reliability, disaster recovery capabilities, data centers in multiple locations and a strict privacy policy. It also helps protect your e-mail environment with up-to-date antivirus and anti-spam solutions.

1Access from mobile devices requires Wi-Fi capability or depends on carrier network availability.

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