How Has Office 365 Made Adopting Digital Transformation Easier for Businesses
Digital Transformation has got to be one of the most exciting things to happen to businesses. While it didn’t revamp businesses from the ground up, it changed the way they worked significantly. That too all for the better. The dawn of digital transformation seemed like an intersection of technology, society, and macroeconomics but at its core, it presented a new model for businesses; the digital model. Today, with several tools and technologies leading businesses forward in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution, one starts to wonder what tools or services are worth considering or looking into. Some businesses were completely overwhelmed by the idea of a digital shift. For them it meant having to start over. Issues such as data migration, cross-compatibility, inclusion of features were the cause for concern for a lot of businesses. However, Microsoft stepped in with Office 365 and changed the playing field completely.
A Familiar Face in the New, Digital Age
Businesses, however big or small, have been using Microsoft tools to undergo their day-to-day business processes. They check their email via Outlook. They compose presentations via PowerPoint. Documents are drafted using Word and spreadsheets of meaningful data are constructed with finesse using Excel. These are all tools that a great majority of enterprises are fond of and also familiar. So, when Microsoft announced Office 365 as one of the ushers of digital transformation, organizations all over the world were thrilled. What it meant for them and everyone was the ability to carry on their work how they always had along with tools that would help them be a part of the new wave. Office 365 offered the best about Microsoft Office and then some. The additional features included cloud storage, mobility and more access leading to a complete solutions platform. The entire toolset being offered as a bundle helped reluctant organizations ease into their digital transformation.
Office 365 and Businesses Today
Microsoft understood that business dynamics were changing rapidly and thus equipped their customers with the tools to keep up with the times. Microsoft offered security frameworks to safeguard business data and cloud storage to keep data consistently accessible. The Office 365 mobile suit expanded productivity by letting professionals use their enterprise software on their smartphones. All of this along with the same great enterprise suite applications led Office 365 to be a cloud-enabled productivity stack of its kind.
The third quarter of 2018 reported that Office 365 was at 135 million monthly active users which sheds light on how important Microsoft has been in reducing the learning curve for enterprises when it came to digital transformation. The enterprise suite was always around to increase productivity for workplaces but now it has gone far beyond that in enriching enterprise productivity. Being accessible from anywhere let professionals take their work with them, have a greater degree of coordination with tools like Outlook Customer Manager that let them organize emails, meetings, calls automatically. Documents became collaboration-friendly as well as collaboration optimized making team comes together like never before.
Say hello Office 365!
