SharePoint Intranets on Office 365 Platform: allows creating digital workplaces anywhere and delivering in real-time. Office 365 allows employees to collaborate, deliver information and services. Intranets on Office 365 help employees to store, share, and co-author information. Office 365 seamlessly facilitates dynamic work environments. By integrating intranet with office 365, organizations can efficiently support business processes and empower employees. Office365 offers end-to-end content management and document collaboration through SharePoint. SharePoint is also well utilized to build dynamic websites and interactive portals.

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Benefits of using Microsoft O365 for
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Introduction
With Internet of things fuelled by Cloud, everything is an application. Anything running on cloud is
delivered as a service. Microsoft leveraged their office applications and productivity tools at the right
time. Deployed it on cloud and called it: Microsoft office 365.Microsoft office 365 refers to services
such as MS-office and set of productivity tools including SharePoint enabled over the Internet.
SharePoint Intranets on Office 365 Platform: allows creating digital workplaces anywhere and
delivering in real-time. Office 365 allows employees to collaborate, deliver information and services.
Intranets on Office 365 help employees to store, share, and co-author information. Office 365
seamlessly facilitates dynamic work environments. By integrating intranet with office 365,
organizations can efficiently support business processes and empower employees. Office365 offers
end-to-end content management and document collaboration through SharePoint. SharePoint is also
well utilized to build dynamic websites and interactive portals.
Microsoft is also strongly promoting a cloud-based approach. Companies opting for SharePoint 2013
through the Office 365 offering will benefit from more frequent updates and better integration with
Yammer.
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sharepoint-2013/#sthash.mgUZ0kBn.dpuf
Office 365 provides a number of additional features and various subscriptions options. Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs) and SMBs can start adopting it at a fraction of cost. Office 365 hosted in
cloud offers huge savings over deployment and maintenance costs.
Microsoft introduced subscription models are going to make their foothold even stronger. They are
likely to make Office 365 a feasible alternative in the small-to-medium sized space (SMB), which has
traditionally belonged to Google.
Reference:http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/which-cloud-office-suite-microsoft-or-
google-gartnerpcc-026515.php

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Microsoft Office 365 Increasing Foothold
Microsoft Office 365 Global Adoption and Availability
Microsoft office 365 is now available in 196 countries worldwide as of March; 2014.The fact that you
can now get Office 365 just about anywhere there is a business culture is not surprising. But the pace
at which it has developed is startling.
Reference:http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/office-365-dominance-grows-
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Office 365 for SharePoint: Master of Collaboration and Much More
Seamless communication and continuous flow of information is redefining the way organizations
work. Customers integrate SharePoint 2013 with Office 365, resulting in hybrid cloud solutions. Users
with the right access controls can access both on premise SharePoint and cloud-based office 365.
Gartner research believes SharePoint Online and Office 365 will continue to grow share faster in small
and midsize businesses within markets such as North America. Its improving capabilities for worker
collaboration and its reliability for security is also making it an ideal platform for advanced enterprise
level meeting software.
Reference: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140703175001-392712-top-10-benefits-of-microsoft-
sharepoint-server
SharePoint and Office 365 have been prime products of collaboration for most of the fortune 500
organizations. SharePoint 2013 supports BYOD and mobility boosting productivity. When
collaboration is required, SharePoint portals with office365 seamlessly make it happen. Edit
documents on the move, share documents across all the team members. Version control feature in
SharePoint helps to keep a track of changes and additions made.
Co-Authoring using office365 for SharePoint
For example, consider a team working on a business presentation. Team members work in different
time zones. Each team member has a role in creating the presentation. By utilizing office365 for
SharePoint, team members can simultaneously edit the same document. Each addition made to the
presentation can be tracked and identified. Once the addition is made and saved, it is reflected by
means of notification to other members.
This kind of close integration, instant updates and effortless collaboration is offered by Microsoft
office 365 for SharePoint Intranet Portal.
Office 365 is perfect for startups. We do ’t ha e to thi k a out i ter al i frastru ture or IT
maintenance. Employees have embraced team spaces within SharePoint Online, in addition to using
the application to share large files. With the added mobility of SharePoint, employees can access files
fro their s artpho es a d share ith others e e hile they’re o the go. - Christoph Keisers,
Managing Director, Agheera
Reference http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-365/Agheera-GmbH/German-Startup-
Widens-Global-Reach-with-Cloud-Based-Services/710000002449

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SharePoint is currently utilized in following ways by most of the Fortune 500
organizations.
 Enterprise Content Management with Office 365
 Office Networking Example: Employee home page to keep a track of organization news,
happenings, events and recruitments.
 Intranet and Extranet Portals
 Collaboration tools
 Project Management tools. Example: Project Dashboards
 Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
 Enterprise search in Portals
 Business process Automation
IT Cube: ITConnect Intranet Portal
IT Cu e’s ITConne t is off the shelf Intranet Portal that is tailor-made for small to mid-size
organizations. Built on top of the SharePoint foundation, it offers plenty of useful features that help
organizations to get started with Intranet portal. To know more, See ITCube.
Benefits of Office 365 for SharePoint
SharePoint Online offers end-to-end collaboration with Office 365. SharePoint services are highly
scalable in terms of adding additional users/ more storage. SharePoint online is closely integrated
with Microsoft Office 365 applications.
We use Office 365 for sharing best practices and interacting with medical professionals without extra
tra el so e a rea h our goal of ... i reasi g the u er of hildre e help e ery year. -Ruben
Ayala, Operation Smile, Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs
Reference:https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=4642
 Extensive BYOD and Mobile devices support: Flexible and Versatile
Access emails, those important documents, download presentations on the move. Look-up contacts
and schedule instant meetings from mobile devices. Use desktop office applications as web
applications via office 365 in mobile devices. Create, edit, and share documents. With SharePoint
Intranet Portal upload all the documents into a centralized document repository.

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 Security: Resilient and Robust
The office 365 applications are accessed via 128-bit SSL/TSL encryption. Highly resilient security
measures are followed based on Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Initiative. Security Development
Lifecycle (SDL) is implemented for all Office 365 online services development, deployment, and
maintenance. To know more, visit Office 365 online applications security.
 Great Support and Periodic Updates
Since January of 2013, Microsoft has released over 100 new feature-level updates in Office 365.
Ma y of those are loud-first a d they get rolled i to ser i e pa ks later, said a Mi rosoft
spokesperson
Reference:http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/04/30/office-365-gains-on-google-apps-as-microsoft-puts-
priority-on-cloud/
The Microsoft office 365 online services are comprehensively managed by Microsoft. With periodic
updates and patches installed in background without customers knowing about it. With SLAs and
99.9% assured uptime of the office365 services, there will either little/nil services interruption.
 Single Sign-On
With Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), organizations can implement single sign-on.
Customers can easily log on to their domain and get automatically authenticated to Office 365
services.
 Exchange Online: Cost effective storage services
Avail the benefits of exchange server 2010 using exchange online services. User mailboxes and
personal archives are available. Its storage capacity can be configured per-user basis. Users can also
restore deleted items by enabling Single Item recovery option. Users either connect to exchange
online via Outlook client or outlook web application.
 Lync Online: Enterprise Communication
Lync Online is the service component of Office 365. Mainly used for Instant Messaging, conferencing,
screen sharing; file transfer and white board within an organization network. Lync is also closely
integrated with outlook. Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is supported. Users can
communicate using Lync over Outlook.

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SharePoint with Office 365: Great Features and Greater Peace of Mind
Microsoft Office 365 services delivered via cloud have garnered tremendous responses from all kinds
of organizations. Especially ISVs and SMBs have embraced Office365 Intranets to a greater extent due
to competitive pricing and various subscriptions models.
SharePoint Online offers a huge range of functionality on its own. But the Office365 proposition, and
price point, becomes all the more compelling when you consider its companion tools - like Lync Online
and Exchange Online. The tools tightly integrate with each other, and for many organizations it will
make sense to put them all in the cloud - not just SharePoint.
Reference:http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-collaboration/the-sharepoint-cloud-benefits-of-
office365-011210.php?pageNum=2
SharePoint is one of the finest components/additions in Office 365.It leverages functionalities of 0365
and its components, to deliver the finest collaboration experience. SharePoint enhances the
communication among team members with extensive list of features. Helping teams to create digital
workplaces. With SharePoint, teams have access to comprehensive business information and
business intelligence tools.
Cattaui uses Office 365 to engender a sense of excitement and loyalty among employees who log on
to the site as soo as they report for ork. I usto ized our “harePoint Online site to be the shared
li i g roo of our o pa y, says Cattaui. It’s full of produ t a d i dustry i for atio , ulleti
oards, ale dars, staff kudos, a d li ks to logs, Fa e ook, a d T itter. We’re i reasi g ra d
awareness and teamwork, so we can all work together to provide seamless customer service and
build our business." Jennifer Cattaui, Owner, Babesta
Reference:http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-365/Babesta/Children-s-Retailer-
Boosts-Productivity-by-30-Percent-with-Cloud-Based-Business-Tools/710000000091
IT Cube, Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, is a specialist in implementing and deploying Office 365
and SharePoint solutions. IT Cube helps ISVs and SMBs to realise the true capabilities of Office365.
Helps to leverage enterprise-level tools built on SharePoint platform to further boost productivity.