For years now we have been supplying customers with licensed products of Microsoft Office and Office for Mac.  These are great products but the downside was that the retail boxed version only provided the user with 1 installation.

This is great if you sit at a desktop all day and then don’t touch your work until you arrive at the office the next morning. However, the impact of mobile devices on our working patterns means that most of us need access to our Office Apps when away from the office. With Office 365 Small Business Premium you now have the ability to access your data from anywhere and there are some really cool benefits, such as:

1)     Enjoy a consistent and familiar Office experience across PCs, Macs, Windows tablets, iPads, and most mobile devices. In fact each user can install Office onto 10 devices. 5 PCs/Macs and an additional 5 mobile devices including the iPad.

2)     Always have the latest versions of Office, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Notes, Publisher, Access and Lync. There is no need to pay for version upgrades; updates are included in your subscription.

3)     Business Class email through the familiar Outlook experience. You can access your emails from your desktop or from a web browser using the Outlook Web App. Get a 50 GB mailbox for each user and send attachments of up to 25 MB.

4)     Connect with other Lync users via instant message, voice calls and video calls. Share presence, IM and audio calling with Skype users.

5)     OneDrive for Business provides 25GB of storage for each user. You can virtually access your documents anywhere, share files with others inside and outside the organisation, control who can edit and share each file and easily sync files with PCs and other devices.

6)     Get a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, financially backed service level agreement.

All of the benefits above are genuine but it is the ability to install Office up to 10 times that really appeals to us. Some many of us will use a desktop, laptop, iPad and mobile device during the day and the ability to access your data across all of these platforms is ideal.

Also it has a real cost benefit as well. To buy an annual subscription to Office 365 Small Business Premium is £99 + VAT. To buy a single licence of Office Home and Business 2013 or Office for Mac 2011 Business Edition is in the region of £200 + Vat. So if you need your Office apps over multiple devices we strongly recommend the 365 solution.

If you are interested in leasing or purchasing Office 365 call us on 0121 285 0098 or email info@localhost