Office 365 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 21Ten Signs It’s Time for You to Move to Office 365

IN THIS CHAPTER

Appreciating what Office 365 can do for you

Avoiding the headline as yet another hacking victim

Leading your organization into the future

The Fortune 500 companies have spoken. Cloud computing is in. According to Microsoft, 80 percent of these successful organizations are empowering their businesses using the Microsoft cloud. Between Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and Office 365, the cloud business is good business for Microsoft. It’s so good that they have invested $15 billion to build their impressively massive cloud infrastructure which includes more than one million servers sitting in more than 100 data centers around the world. And they aren’t stopping there. With Microsoft’s recent research investments in underwater data centers, we may in the future get cloud services not so much from the cloud but from the bottom of the seas!

If you’re still holding back and hanging on to your in-house servers, dutifully patching and maintaining them, let us give you some good reasons to let go. If you’re still using a patchwork of services to stitch together a semblance of enterprise-class productivity solutions, let us break it down for you: that is so last year. It’s time to move to Office 365. Here are the top ten reasons why.

Your Team Likes to Collaborate

Cloud and collaboration is a match made in heaven. Using collaboration tools hosted in the cloud allows you and your colleagues to make edits ...