Introducing Office 365
Earlier this year, the launch of Office, SharePoint and Exchange 2010 ushered in the future of productivity. Together with Lync, these products provide the productivity backbone for modern businesses
• Office 365 brings together SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, and Office in an always-up-to-date cloud service.
• With Office 365, customers get the best productivity solutions on the planet for a predictable monthly cost, and their employees don’t have to change the way they work because they can use familiar applications like Office that they already know and love.
• In short, Office 365 is the best of everything we know about productivity – all in a single cloud service.
• And it builds on our history of delivering cloud services at scale for more than a decade
• Office 365 is designed to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes.
There are three main options with Office 365

Feature and Benefit
24/7 RELIABILITY
Office 365 runs on a global network of data centers, well-protected by multiple layers of security and a strict privacy policy. Microsoft security practices take a risk-based, multi-dimensional approach to safeguard data and services, defining security requirements and implementing the corresponding controls.

ENTERPRISE-CLASS SECURITY
To protect the reliability of your cloud services, Microsoft automatically stores data in geographically remote data centers. In addition, Microsoft offers a financially-backed Service Level Agreement that guarantees 99.9 percent uptime.

CLOUD SERVICES THAT KEEP YOU IN CONTROL
With Office 365, IT maintains control of service configurations and user access, while Microsoft takes over routine server administration tasks, such as security updates and system upgrades. In fact, your IT team can segment specific administrative tasks through role-based access controls, and receive up-to-date information on service availability via RSS feeds and the service health portal.

NEXT-GENERATION PRODUCTIVITY
Office 365 services unite cloud-based services with the productivity tools people use every day. The familiar Microsoft Office experience comes from Office Professional Plus. Add to that Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint® Online, and Microsoft Lync™ Online, and people inside and outside your organization can contribute at the speed of business.

ACCESS VIRTUALLY ANYWHERE
Email, documents, contacts, and calendars are readily available on a laptop, smartphone, or browser. Office 365 is compatible with most major web browsers, Windows® and Macintosh operating systems, and Windows Phone, Nokia, Android, iPhone, and Blackberry.

WORKS WITH WHAT USERS ALREADY KNOW
Users can work with the same, familiar Microsoft Outlook® and Office tools,2 and most service plans also include Office Web Apps, the only set of cloud-enabled applications designed to work seamlessly with Office.

COLLABORATION MADE EASY
From email and instant messaging to on-the-fly online meetings, people can collaborate like never before, managing projects, co-authoring documents, and communicating in real time.