What is Microsoft 365?

What is Microsoft 365?

Microsoft 365 is a productivity cloud solution built for businesses and organisations to use to deliver enhance productivity and workflow for its users. It seems to be mainly targeted as a business package solution, consisting of different software and tools that will help businesses do their job and collaborate more effectively.

Especially with modern workplaces now having a more diverse work culture and landscape; where teams are more diverse and also globally distributed. This is signicant for larger companies, with teams in Australia often working together on projects with teams in the head office, typically based in America.

As such, there exists a need for a solution that delivers a productivity experience to cover all the different requirements teams may have. Microsoft seems to have done so providing a plethora of business utility power including such software such as:

• Microsoft Teams

• Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

• Microsoft Windows

With Microsoft 365, Microsoft is tackling the "needs of the modern workplace" that pretty much all businesses face on a day to day. For Microsoft 365, they look to tackle 3 core areas being:

1. Productivity and Teamwork

2. Business Management

3. Security and Compliance

Microsoft 365 brings together Office, Windows 10 and Enterprise Security

So for each of these areas, they support different tools to satisfy those different areas.

Productivity & Teamwork	Business Management	Security & Compliance
Microsoft Teams	Endpoint Manager (IT)	IDM (Identity/Access)
Microsoft Outlook	Business process automation	Information protection
Microsoft Office Apps	Microsoft Teams extensions	Threat protection
OneDrive	Power Platform extensions	Security management
Intranet & Team Sites	Business/VOIP with Teams	Insider risk management
Yammer (Social Network)	Forms management	Compliance management
	Workplace analytics	eDiscovery
	Work management (Project Online)

Some of these solutions (like Office) are different under the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model which is hosted and managed centrally by a cloud service provider (CSP). This is delivered to customers through a monthy/annual subscription (like Netflix).

Productivity Benefits of Microsoft 365

So Microsoft 365 essentially utilises the Cloud to deliver services and apps that Microsoft builds for customers and businesses to be more productive so they can ACHIEVE MORE. By providing these tools, both individuals and organisations are able to do more and realise their full potential.

Personal Productivity (for individuals)

Organisational Productivity (how does this benefit organisations?)

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