Why Should Small Businesses Start Using Microsoft 365?

If you are looking for a complete, cloud-based platform that offers good support for content creation and sharing, then Microsoft 365 (Microsoft officially announced that Office 365 was renamed to Microsoft 365 on April 21, 2020) may be the best choice for your small business.

Microsoft 365 can help the employees work together in new and more efficient ways. It is a set of tools. It’s a new way of working. Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based product, which gives businesses access to the full Office Suite including popular applications like Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

Cloud computing continues to be the great equalizer for small businesses by making technology more affordable and accessible.

• Low upfront cost-  Microsoft 365 plan meets exact business requirements and comes with options:  

1. Interested only in hosted email

2. Interested only in the desktop version of Office

• Multiple licenses - Microsoft 365 plans offer  options for small businesses to install the desktop apps on up to five PCs or Macs per user.
• Exchange Online -  If a company has compelling legal or compliance concerns, Exchange Online offers a more appealing cost-of-ownership proposition than an on-site Exchange deployment. It also includes spam and malware protection, which costs extra if anyone buys other on-premises solutions.

Microsoft 365 boosts productivity and connectivity: It is an excellent enabler to  assist with remote working, improve teamwork and productivity while providing overall business benefits.

• Remote Working : Microsoft 365 offers work totally remotely. Everyone is able to view their data anytime, anywhere, on any device. Anyone can work online or offline.
• Teamwork and Productivity: Microsoft 365 allows team members and whole departments to work together on various projects and documents. Able to view live changes to documents and therefore work on them at the same time meaning everyone sees real-time changes. Due to being cloud-based, MS365 is a complete productivity platform for small businesses.
• Data security and control: Data security in the cloud is always knowing where the data is and who has access to it. Can also remotely wipe all data if lost from a mobile device. So, everybody can go and store data safely in the cloud.
• Get Organized: In everyday life meetings, email and contact management are a big part of a small business. Using Microsoft 365, email, calendar and contacts are all synchronized . It’s possible to access the same data from any device. Save a document on PC and continue working on it on mobile or tablet.

For small businesses Microsoft 365 is the best solution in terms of versatility:

• Larger mailbox storage: As per our basic tendency to store all our email messages in our inboxes.With MS365 we have 100 GB space in mail box.(50 GB Active + 50 GB archives)
• OneDrive: OneDrive is a file hosting service for taking a user's personal files and being able to share them between all of the devices that user may use.
• Sharepoint: Microsoft SharePoint is a content management system and document management platform. It works to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization.
• Teams : Microsoft Teams is the one app that can help and organize a small business meet, chat, and collaborate from anywhere. Empower collaboration in your company with Teams—the app used by more than 250 million people at work, home, and school.
• Support :  For MS 365 Enterprise, Business, Education, and Government subscription, Microsoft Support provides global technical, pre-sales, billing and subscription support. It helps Business Grow, Collaboration is undoubtedly seamless and secure.