Translate

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Why Office 365 Is Very Popular

By Alxa Robin


One of the many benefits of office 365 is the updated versions of all the Microsoft servers. These services run on Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Lync. The corporate users of these features will enjoy their functionality more especially because the enterprise edition includes the licensing for office professional plus.

Most corporate software users have in mind the upgrading and compatibility of any software as the most important thing. A good aspect of office 365 is its compatibility with most other software and hardware as well. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP as well. The online web portal of office 365 is well compatible with the main internet browsers that we commonly use. It can also house the XP home edition or media center.

Office 365 has top of the range security checks that make sure there is data safety and privacy. Most corporate businesses have a fear of data protection issues when they are considering joining the cloud service. Office 365 has 128-BIT SSL/TSL data encryption to prevent unauthorized interception of personal data by third parties. Antivirus scans and the Microsoft computing imitative that prevents malware and data spamming as well are very useful with office 365.

You would also enjoy benefits of efficiency in downtime manage. Actually, Microsoft has an agreement to attain 99 % service satisfaction. This has been made possible and customers can enjoy the benefit

Microsoft has achieved this by setting up back up data centers for every data center to back it up in case of a downtime. This is done so smoothly that a user will not experience the downtime even if it occurred. When one data center goes down, clients from that data center are sent to another data center on standby to host them. This happens with the most minimum of interruptions possible.

Compliancy is a major concern in the business world today. In line with both government and the industry regulations, Microsoft is well placed ahead in compliancy issues. Microsoft office 365 is ISO 27001 certified. It has also been audited by the SAS70 type I and II audit. More controls such as the Health Insurance and accountability Act and FERPA educational rights area tools it has set up for its users to aid them in compliancy issues.

You can easily achieve single sign-on, so that users can log onto the domain and be automatically authenticated to office 365. This can be done by configuring your Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to achieve a single sign in. That is for instance if your network is running on Server 2008 Directory services.

It is quite easy as well using office 365 to collaborate since you will get 500 MB Of storage per user account with a storage quota of up to 100 GB in each site collection. The share point sites works with all Microsoft office 2010, Excel, PowerPoint, outlook and even share point. In addition, multiple users can manage to edit the same document at the same time using office 365.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment