The world of Enterprise IT is much the same and the last few decades have seen some incredible innovations, inventions and intuitions from the industry’s major players as well as small and disruptive startups.

Unfortunately, lots of companies keep using the outdated technology which underpins their work despite new platforms and solutions which have improved radically on these legacy tools. Why are companies resisting to change? There’s several reasons:

1. Many businesses presume their current platforms are good enough
2. Staff know how their present platforms work and don’t want the change
3. The struggle to migrate all the data over to the new platform

These are reasonable arguments but where’s the initiative? Sticking with legacy platforms means you’ll receive less and less support over time; you’ll eventually have to catch up to the new technology anyway and the technology that is out there nowadays will let you be so much more productive. And migration is not as complicated as you’d think, especially with an expert helping you out.

Office 365 is Microsoft’s state of the art Enterprise IT environment and is changing the way businesses work. Here are the top ten reasons why your business would improve dramatically if you’d make the move to Office 365:

1. Yammer

If you’ve not already heard of it, Microsoft bought Enterprise Social Network (ESN) Yammer for $1.2 Billion back in 2012. Why such a huge sum? Because ESNs are likely to play an increasingly important role in how we work. They facilitate interactions, make talent searching easier and cut out lengthy email chains with the ability to ‘like’ posts, comment on your group’s activity and share and collaborate on files incredibly easily. Like all the tools in Office 365, Yammer configures perfectly with everything else in the stack which makes the whole experience slick and smooth.

2. Don’t need to worry about servers and maintenance

Office 365 is available on the cloud, yet also has the flexibility of integrating with your company’s On-Premises solutions if needs be. Using the cloud has so many advantages, particularly in terms of saving on the maintenance costs associated with local servers. And the Office 365 Trust Center means you know your data will be in safe hands.

3. It’ll grow with your business

Office 365 works on a system of “you pay for what you get”. When your organization grows, you can simply pay for the additional services and data storage you need. OneDrive for Business - the data storage side of the stack - offers a huge amount of space at an amazingly affordable cost. You’ll never have the headache of buying new hard drive for storage space ever again.

4. Working anywhere from any device

Being based in the cloud, Office 365 means your colleagues no longer need to be chained to the desk to access company data and be productive. It’s possible to work from mobiles, tablets and laptops on the go - and it’s all backed up by comprehensive security measures.

5. Simplified migration

Migrating to Office 365 can be easy, regardless of the storage tools you currently use. And, since Office 365 will undergo constant updates from Microsoft, you’ll never need to migrate your data again!

6. All your apps in one place – a unified UI

One awesome feature of Office 365 is that it allows you pick and choose the tools you want. Microsoft has a lot of great business apps  and these are regularly released in the Windows Store (many are free!). You can choose to add them to your Office 365 home screen and access them easily from one place.

7. Office web apps – work Online

Office 365 is focused on making your workflows more streamlined and more collaborative than ever. The stack includes the full MS Office productivity suite accessible online which means colleagues can quickly make edits, comments and improvements on documents in real time without having to check out and download the document.

8. New features and bug updates

It’s not quite Nirvana, but once you’ve moved to Office 365 you’ll have escaped the endless cycle of waiting a couple of years for Microsoft’s next product release. Instead, you’ll have instant access to updates and bug fixes as soon as they’re ready.

9. Work smarter with Delve

With Delve, the future is already here. Using Machine Learning, Delve functions as a kind of personal secretary - it gets to know what you’re working on, who you follow on Yammer, when you have meetings and what your priorities are. It then makes suggestions to help users work smarter and more efficiently.

10. Data loss prevention – enterprise class governance and control

A company’s lifeblood is its data and documents. Losing these can be disastrous and Office 365’s data protection and backup offers you the peace of mind that you’ll never lose the data you use.

What are you waiting for?

Office 365 is a highly efficient collaboration solution for your business. Transitioning everything on to Office 365 and encouraging adoption among users will take a lot of work, but Vorsite offers the right tools and will create a plan for you that is right for your business. The project will rapidly pay off and your business will be much more successful.

Ready to migrate to Office 365?Contact us getservices@vorsite.com or (206) 781-1797.