Office 365
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Business is better with Office 365
Office 365 is the Office you know and love available on virtually any device anywhere.
Office 365 Plans for SMEs
| Office 365 Business Essentials | Office 365 Business | Office 365 Business Premium | |
| The core cloud services for running your business, including business-class email, online meeting tools and cloud storage to easily share, collaborate and edit your Office files on any device. | Always up to date version of Office appliations, plus cloud storage to easily share collaborate and edit your files on your computer, tablet adn smartphone. | Always up to date version of Office applications, plus core cloud services for running your business – from online meetings to sharing documents to business-class email. | |
| Office Applications | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Publisher for PC or Mac | |||
| Install desktop applications on 5 PCs or Macs | |||
| Access to above Office apps from and documents from all major smartphones, Windows tablets and iPad | |||
| Office online – online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote | |||
| Standard Services | |||
| OneDrive for Business with 1TB of storage | |||
| Email – 50 GB email, contacts and shared calendars (Exchange) | |||
| Online meetings – Web conferencing, IM, presence (Lync) | |||
| Sites – team collaboration and internal portals, public website (SharePoint) | |||
| Private social networking (Yammer) | |||
| Other value | |||
| 99.9% uptime guarantee | |||
| 24/7 phone support from Microsoft for critical issues | |||
| On-premises Active Directory synchronisation for single sign on | |||
| Maximum number of licences before needing Enterprise plans | 300 | 300 | 300 |
Office on the Desktop
With Office 365 Business and Business Premium you get familiar, best-in-class tools that are always up to date so you can deliver your best work. Updates are automatically synced to your Office apps so you’ll never have to install a new version of Office again.
Office 365 Business includes:
- Outlook: Manage your email, schedules, contacts, and to-do items. Outlook is the one place to go to communicate with all of your important contacts.
- Word: Create documents with style, polish work with others easily, and enjoy the new reading experience on modern touch devices.
- PowerPoint: Easily work with others and design beautiful presentations. Presenting tools help you deliver your ideas and impress your audience.
- OneNote: All your notes together and with you anywhere. OneNote is your digital notebook for capturing to-dos, meeting notes, and anything else you need to remember.
- Excel: Excel gives you intuitive ways to explore your data. Quickly discover new ways to visualize your data, and see your information in new depths.
- Publisher: Use familiar, simple tools to create and share professional-looking, personalized publications that make an impact.
OneDrive for Business
OneDrive for Business provides a simple & secure location where people can store, sync and share their work files.
Top features include:
- 1TB of of cloud storage: Safely store, backup and share your valuable work files. Easily edit files in your browser with Office Online or open directly in Office desktop apps.
- Simple sharing with anyone: Private by default, safely share your files with others both inside and outside your company. Easily manage who can access or edit your files.
- Available offline: Files can be synchronized offline and available without an internet connection. Offline edits will automatically sync the next time you connect to the internet.
- Accessible on any device: Documents can be accessed from any device through a supported browser or by using native applications on Windows 7–8.1, Windows RT, iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices.
- Collaborate in real time: Work simultaneously on your documents with others using Office Online or the traditional Office desktop apps. Track changes and view previous versions with automatic versioning controls.
- Easy to learn and use: Seamlessly integrated with Office and Windows. Save directly to the cloud from the Office desktop applications. Move, rename and delete files directly in File Explorer on your PC.
Cloud Services
With Office 365 Business Essentials and Business Premium you receive cloud services to enhance communication and collaboration in your organisation.
These include:
- Exchange Online: Business-grade email hosted in geographically distributed data centers with continuous data backup,premier disaster recovery capabilities and has a team of security experts monitoring it around the clock. Each user will receive a 50GB mailbox and calendar, contacts and task management features.
- Skype for Business: Collaborate with up to 250 people, anywhere, on any device, with full security and control.
- SharePoint: Share ideas and work. Organize information, people and projects.
- Yammer: Private message with your team, share information and organize around projects.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why should I choose Office 365 over Office 2016?
Office 365 is a set of subscription plans that include access to Office applications plus other cloud-based services.
With Office 365 plans that include the Office applications, you automatically receive the latest editions of Office applications when they are released. With Office 2016 you will have to purchase a new edition of the software to upgrade.
Do you sell Office 2016?
Yes. Contact us to order.
Can I change Office 365 plans as my needs change?
Office 365 is scalable between plans and some other Microsoft services. You can adjust your plans as your needs change.
I need Microsoft Access
Small Business targeted Office 365 plans do not include Microsoft Access, however we can provide it with one of the enterprise plans if required.
Do you sell Office 365 for Home?
Yes, please contact us to order it.
Why Carter Tech?
Carter Tech is a Microsoft Partner with years of experience with Microsoft products. We are capable of examining your business needs and recommending the best solution for your requirements no matter what size of business you have.