The growing trend towards stepping away from traditional legacy email environments and migrating to Office 365 is changing the way businesses work. We’ve put together five key benefits of migrating to Office 365 to make your decision easier.

Flexible working – work anywhere, anytime from any device

Migrating to Office 365 allows your employees to access company files away from the office without the need to set up VPNs, saving time and hassle. By migrating to the cloud, your staff can work anywhere with only an internet connection required – great for progressive companies allowing flexible working and greater productivity!

If you migrate to Office 365, all your files are centrally located in a Microsoft data centre, so there will always be a single data source. If you make a change to a document at home and then your colleague views the file in the office, they will see the most up-to-date document. Gone are the days of e-mailing different versions of the same Excel document between each other.

Allows your staff the ability to access up to date files whilst flexible working.

Your business remains secure

Microsoft Office 365 comes with a number of security features that ensure that your business can remain secure in the cloud. By migrating to Office 365 applications are accessed through SSL/TSL encryption so that communications or files aren’t intercepted by someone without authorisation.

Conducting regular security audits, Microsoft continuously monitor their systems for suspicious activity and have a robust incident response protocol in place. Migrating to Office 365 also provides you with other security features including:

  • Up to date antivirus signatures.
  • Email protection from malware with anti-spam filtering and antivirus software.
  • Microsoft Trustworthy Computing security measures.

Keep your files and communications secure and encrypted.

Instant upgrades and access to new features

As previously mentioned, Microsoft are committed to ensuring that your business remains secure in the cloud. Providing instant updates for all Microsoft Office 365 solutions, you can avoid having to go through the endless cycle of manually updating your business software and rest assured that your network is not vulnerable to be compromised by those looking to exploit older software solutions.

You’ll also receive access to new features as soon as they’re launched, allowing your employees to utilise new technologies and solutions to improve their workload and productivity.

Avoid having to go through the endless cycle of manual software updates.

Larger mailbox storage

Every business has an email hoarder (or let’s be honest, many email hoarders!). No matter the nature of the email, it’ll remain somewhere in their inbox, even if it’s spam or can be easily deleted. This can cause issues for in-house servers, which can have their storage filled by old files that are not necessary to the present business function.

When you migrate to Office 365 you can provide your employees with the opportunity to keep their files and ensure that every email they receive can be stored safely in the cloud, thanks to Microsoft’s large storage capacity.

We can help you securely access Microsoft Office 365, and automate the entire back-up process, so you don’t have to spend valuable time on manual back-ups!

Don’t worry about storage.

Built-in data security and compliance

With GDPR in full force, it’s now more important than ever that your business is data compliant. Microsoft Office 365 has been certified as compliant with ISO 27001 standards, completed SAS70 Type I and II audits, and achieved the EU Safe Harbor seal – allowing you to rest assured that moving to office 365 means your business is compliant with data regulations.

With Microsoft Office 365, you can always know where your data is and who has access to it.

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How we can help

There are a huge range of options available when it comes to migrating Office 365, and as a direct CSP partner, we hold the small and mid-market cloud solutions competency at the gold level for Microsoft Office 365. We’ll give you frank advice on what you need for your own situation. We’ve helped thousands of users migrate to Microsoft Office 365, and we can help your business migrate your on premise mailbox, cloud environment or email system to Microsoft Office 365.

Backing-up and storing your data in the cloud is a low cost, flexible option, however an essential business act, particularly in light of increasing compliance and regulations.  We offer back-up as a service, to give you peace of mind that you won’t lose your critical data

We’ll help you get the most from your Office 365 setup and manage your migration to the Cloud.

Speak to one of our expert Microsoft Office 365 migration consultants today.