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Benefits of using Microsoft O365 for

SharePoint Intranet Portal

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Introduction

With Internet of things fuelled by Cloud, everything is an application. Anything running on cloud is

delivered as a service. Microsoft leveraged their office applications and productivity tools at the right

time. Deployed it on cloud and called it: Microsoft office 365.Microsoft office 365 refers to services

such as MS-office and set of productivity tools including SharePoint enabled over the Internet.

SharePoint Intranets on Office 365 Platform: allows creating digital workplaces anywhere and

delivering in real-time. Office 365 allows employees to collaborate, deliver information and services.

Intranets on Office 365 help employees to store, share, and co-author information. Office 365

seamlessly facilitates dynamic work environments. By integrating intranet with office 365,

organizations can efficiently support business processes and empower employees. Office365 offers

end-to-end content management and document collaboration through SharePoint. SharePoint is also

well utilized to build dynamic websites and interactive portals.

Microsoft is also strongly promoting a cloud-based approach. Companies opting for SharePoint 2013

through the Office 365 offering will benefit from more frequent updates and better integration with

Yammer.

Ref:http://www.digitalworkplacegroup.com/2013/08/12/should-your-next-intranet-be-on-

sharepoint-2013/#sthash.mgUZ0kBn.dpuf

Office 365 provides a number of additional features and various subscriptions options. Independent

Software Vendors (ISVs) and SMBs can start adopting it at a fraction of cost. Office 365 hosted in

cloud offers huge savings over deployment and maintenance costs.

Microsoft introduced subscription models are going to make their foothold even stronger. They are

likely to make Office 365 a feasible alternative in the small-to-medium sized space (SMB), which has

traditionally belonged to Google.

Reference:http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/which-cloud-office-suite-microsoft-or-

google-gartnerpcc-026515.php

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Microsoft Office 365 Increasing Foothold

Microsoft Office 365 Global Adoption and Availability

Microsoft office 365 is now available in 196 countries worldwide as of March; 2014.The fact that you

can now get Office 365 just about anywhere there is a business culture is not surprising. But the pace

at which it has developed is startling.

Reference:http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/office-365-dominance-grows-

with-new-markets-027076.php

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Office 365 for SharePoint: Master of Collaboration and Much More

Seamless communication and continuous flow of information is redefining the way organizations

work. Customers integrate SharePoint 2013 with Office 365, resulting in hybrid cloud solutions. Users

with the right access controls can access both on premise SharePoint and cloud-based office 365.

Gartner research believes SharePoint Online and Office 365 will continue to grow share faster in small

and midsize businesses within markets such as North America. Its improving capabilities for worker

collaboration and its reliability for security is also making it an ideal platform for advanced enterprise

level meeting software.

Reference: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140703175001-392712-top-10-benefits-of-microsoft-

sharepoint-server

SharePoint and Office 365 have been prime products of collaboration for most of the fortune 500

organizations. SharePoint 2013 supports BYOD and mobility boosting productivity. When

collaboration is required, SharePoint portals with office365 seamlessly make it happen. Edit

documents on the move, share documents across all the team members. Version control feature in

SharePoint helps to keep a track of changes and additions made.

Co-Authoring using office365 for SharePoint

For example, consider a team working on a business presentation. Team members work in different

time zones. Each team member has a role in creating the presentation. By utilizing office365 for

SharePoint, team members can simultaneously edit the same document. Each addition made to the

presentation can be tracked and identified. Once the addition is made and saved, it is reflected by

means of notification to other members.

This kind of close integration, instant updates and effortless collaboration is offered by Microsoft

office 365 for SharePoint Intranet Portal.

Office 365 is perfect for startups. We do ’t ha e to thi k a out i ter al i frastru ture or IT maintenance. Employees have embraced team spaces within SharePoint Online, in addition to using

the application to share large files. With the added mobility of SharePoint, employees can access files

fro their s artpho es a d share ith others e e hile they’re o the go. - Christoph Keisers,

Managing Director, Agheera

Reference http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-365/Agheera-GmbH/German-Startup-

Widens-Global-Reach-with-Cloud-Based-Services/710000002449

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SharePoint is currently utilized in following ways by most of the Fortune 500

organizations.

Enterprise Content Management with Office 365

Office Networking Example: Employee home page to keep a track of organization news,

happenings, events and recruitments.

Intranet and Extranet Portals

Collaboration tools

Project Management tools. Example: Project Dashboards

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

Enterprise search in Portals

Business process Automation

IT Cube: ITConnect Intranet Portal

IT Cu e’s ITConne t is off the shelf Intranet Portal that is tailor-made for small to mid-size

organizations. Built on top of the SharePoint foundation, it offers plenty of useful features that help

organizations to get started with Intranet portal. To know more, See ITCube.

Benefits of Office 365 for SharePoint

SharePoint Online offers end-to-end collaboration with Office 365. SharePoint services are highly

scalable in terms of adding additional users/ more storage. SharePoint online is closely integrated

with Microsoft Office 365 applications.

We use Office 365 for sharing best practices and interacting with medical professionals without extra

tra el so e a rea h our goal of ... i reasi g the u er of hildre e help e ery year. -Ruben

Ayala, Operation Smile, Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs

Reference:https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=4642

Extensive BYOD and Mobile devices support: Flexible and Versatile

Access emails, those important documents, download presentations on the move. Look-up contacts

and schedule instant meetings from mobile devices. Use desktop office applications as web

applications via office 365 in mobile devices. Create, edit, and share documents. With SharePoint

Intranet Portal upload all the documents into a centralized document repository.

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Security: Resilient and Robust

The office 365 applications are accessed via 128-bit SSL/TSL encryption. Highly resilient security

measures are followed based on Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Initiative. Security Development

Lifecycle (SDL) is implemented for all Office 365 online services development, deployment, and

maintenance. To know more, visit Office 365 online applications security.

Great Support and Periodic Updates

Since January of 2013, Microsoft has released over 100 new feature-level updates in Office 365.

Ma y of those are loud-first a d they get rolled i to ser i e pa ks later, said a Mi rosoft spokesperson

Reference:http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/04/30/office-365-gains-on-google-apps-as-microsoft-puts-

priority-on-cloud/

The Microsoft office 365 online services are comprehensively managed by Microsoft. With periodic

updates and patches installed in background without customers knowing about it. With SLAs and

99.9% assured uptime of the office365 services, there will either little/nil services interruption.

Single Sign-On

With Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), organizations can implement single sign-on.

Customers can easily log on to their domain and get automatically authenticated to Office 365

services.

Exchange Online: Cost effective storage services

Avail the benefits of exchange server 2010 using exchange online services. User mailboxes and

personal archives are available. Its storage capacity can be configured per-user basis. Users can also

restore deleted items by enabling Single Item recovery option. Users either connect to exchange

online via Outlook client or outlook web application.

Lync Online: Enterprise Communication

Lync Online is the service component of Office 365. Mainly used for Instant Messaging, conferencing,

screen sharing; file transfer and white board within an organization network. Lync is also closely

integrated with outlook. Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is supported. Users can

communicate using Lync over Outlook.

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SharePoint with Office 365: Great Features and Greater Peace of Mind

Microsoft Office 365 services delivered via cloud have garnered tremendous responses from all kinds

of organizations. Especially ISVs and SMBs have embraced Office365 Intranets to a greater extent due

to competitive pricing and various subscriptions models.

SharePoint Online offers a huge range of functionality on its own. But the Office365 proposition, and

price point, becomes all the more compelling when you consider its companion tools - like Lync Online

and Exchange Online. The tools tightly integrate with each other, and for many organizations it will

make sense to put them all in the cloud - not just SharePoint.

Reference:http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-collaboration/the-sharepoint-cloud-benefits-of-

office365-011210.php?pageNum=2

SharePoint is one of the finest components/additions in Office 365.It leverages functionalities of 0365

and its components, to deliver the finest collaboration experience. SharePoint enhances the

communication among team members with extensive list of features. Helping teams to create digital

workplaces. With SharePoint, teams have access to comprehensive business information and

business intelligence tools.

Cattaui uses Office 365 to engender a sense of excitement and loyalty among employees who log on

to the site as soo as they report for ork. I usto ized our “harePoint Online site to be the shared

li i g roo of our o pa y, says Cattaui. It’s full of produ t a d i dustry i for atio , ulleti oards, ale dars, staff kudos, a d li ks to logs, Fa e ook, a d T itter. We’re i reasi g ra d

awareness and teamwork, so we can all work together to provide seamless customer service and

build our business." Jennifer Cattaui, Owner, Babesta

Reference:http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-365/Babesta/Children-s-Retailer-

Boosts-Productivity-by-30-Percent-with-Cloud-Based-Business-Tools/710000000091

IT Cube, Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, is a specialist in implementing and deploying Office 365

and SharePoint solutions. IT Cube helps ISVs and SMBs to realise the true capabilities of Office365.

Helps to leverage enterprise-level tools built on SharePoint platform to further boost productivity.