Migrating to Microsoft 365 is a big step for any organisation. Going to the cloud introduces new tools, updates and workflows to your business. But more importantly, it allows you to redefine productivity with innovative ways of thinking about how employees use technology today.
Microsoft 365 provides a unified platform for your team to collaborate and get things done with integrated communication, security, and management tools. It allows you to stay connected with colleagues and customers from anywhere, on any device. With Microsoft 365, you can confidently go forward with the knowledge that your company has the latest technologies and security protocols to protect your data and keep your business up and running at all times.
Cloud-based solutions
The primary benefit of Microsoft 365 is its reliability, with an assurance of 99.9% uptime for the platform. Even the most efficient local solutions will experience issues from time to time, but these issues will be less common with M365, allowing your company to focus on its core missions.
Microsoft 365 runs entirely in the cloud, making it easier for businesses to migrate and reduce costs, challenges, and risks. There is no longer any need to manage email servers or network drives. Instead, employees can connect with any device to access productivity tools such as Outlook email and OneDrive file storage, as well as apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. This is one of the biggest advantages of the software hosted in the cloud; you don’t need to worry about installation, maintenance, upgrading, or any other operational costs. These are taken care of by the software vendor.
Flexible scaling
A major benefit of migrating to Microsoft 365 is the scalability to meet any company’s needs. This means that your business can make use of new technologies as they become available without significant capital outlay.
With Microsoft 365, a company’s cloud usage and subscription status can be scaled to align with the growth of its business. There is no need to purchase more hardware or servers, it only requires adding more users and services as needed.
Microsoft 365 will enhance your business’s flexibility and allow it to scale at a rate that is in accordance with the needs of each department. It also offers easy start-up, which lets you mix and match different business applications to create your specific solution for meeting the needs of your company. You can even add or remove users by simply adding or removing licences – all through an affordable subscription model.
Enhancing productivity
Microsoft 365 combines the best of known productivity apps with flexibility, making it the perfect platform to support remote teams or a hybrid workforce. It is fully supported on all modern systems, including Android and iOS, desktop computers, laptops, and mobile devices. This ensures your employees can access their data from any location, making it easier for them to collaborate and improve their time management and efficiency.
Task management and collaboration tools deliver the ability for employees to be productive at all times in any location. The movement of files within an organisation, team members, and clients is secured with end-to-end encryption which keeps up business pace by eliminating sharing hindrances. Project management tools enable teams to stay connected, collaborate on projects in real-time, schedule meetings, and keep track of due dates, all while operating remotely.
Secure and protect data with compliance features
Data protection is essential to the success of any business. The risk of data loss or regulatory non-compliance can be devastating. Fortunately, Microsoft 365 offers a variety of useful security features for the protection of your organisation’s information, one being automatic updates which means you don’t have to worry about manual updates or additional purchases.
Plus by investing in Microsoft 365, an organisation gets encryption data both at rest and in transit as well as enforced multi-factor authentication for users and phishing email protection through Outlook. With robust security settings enabled, only people designated with access can view your documents; this ensures optimum privacy for everyone involved with projects at work. All cloud data has backups regularly and is replicated globally so outages will not affect end-users or risk any loss in your data.
Easy migration and updates
Microsoft offers a range of support options for companies that are looking to migrate services from their legacy environment to Microsoft 365. The Microsoft Gold Certified experts at Itopia can help transfer data between your existing systems, set up email migration, and more.
Once you’re live with the cloud-based platform, all users receive updates and new features on a rolling basis without any interruption in business operations.
To find out more about how simple it is to migrate to Microsoft 365, contact the Microsoft specialists at Itopia. We are experts in Microsoft and can help you get the most from your Microsoft 365 migration.
