This document summarizes Microsoft's cloud productivity services for businesses. It offers Office applications, email, calendar, file storage and sharing optimized for PC, Mac, tablet and smartphone. It provides tools for collaboration like online meetings, screen sharing, team sites and project tracking. Administration is simplified with a single web-based console. Security features include anti-malware protection, spam filtering and mobile device management policies. Plans are available for businesses of all sizes from 1-250+ users.
What is Office 365?
Office 365 is a cloud-based service hosted by Microsoft. The new Office provides access to your
familiar Office applications, email, calendar, video conferencing, and most up-to-date documents
from virtually anywhere, across your devices—from PCs to smartphones to tablets. It provides easyto-
use admin controls and the ability to install Office quickly without the need to uninstall previous
versions. Always have access to the latest technology for an affordable subscription fee and no
upfront infrastructure costs, backed by industry-leading security features and a 99.9% financially
backed uptime service level agreement.
Microsoft 365 Business - Presented by Razor TechnologyDavid J Rosenthal
We want to introduce you to Microsoft 365 Business — a single platform and security solution designed with you in mind. It’s built to keep things simple for you and your people, bringing together the best of what Microsoft has to offer: the security features and innovation of Windows 10 with the power and familiarity of Office 365, with easy management tools.
Windows 10 allows you and your team members to access your files, folders, and apps from virtually anywhere, on your devices. You can take advantage of your digital assistant, Cortana.
Office 365 gives you powerful apps and tools to enable you to collaborate inside and outside your company and make work on the go more productive and easier.
We are bringing the best of Intune to enable you to protect your data in your Office mobile apps, even on personal devices. If someone loses their device, or leaves your organization, you can easily wipe the company data.
our slide show explaining everything you need to know about Microsoft 365 it goes in to detail on how it can save you money each month along with how it can help your company
What is Microsoft 365 Business?
An integrated solution bringing together best-in-class productivity tools, security and device management
A holistic set of business productivity and collaboration tools
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, and Access
Exchange, OneDrive, Skype, Teams, SharePoint
Business apps from Office (Bookings, Outlook Customer Manager, MileIQ1, Listings1, Connections1, Invoicing1)
Enterprise-grade device management and security capabilities
App protection for Office mobile apps
Device management for Windows 10 PCs
Consistent security configuration across devices
Protection of company data across devices
Windows Defender, always-on and up-to-date
Simplified device deployment and user setup
Single admin console to setup and manage users and devices
Auto-installation of Office apps on Windows 10 PCs
Always up-to-date Office + Windows 10
Streamlined deployment of PCs with Windows AutoPilot
This session will provide a basic overview of Microsoft 365 and will then dive into how to position its benefits for customers. You'll learn how the Microsoft 365 features help resolve many common business challenges today and how you should be speaking with customers about these.
What is Office 365?
Office 365 is a cloud-based service hosted by Microsoft. The new Office provides access to your
familiar Office applications, email, calendar, video conferencing, and most up-to-date documents
from virtually anywhere, across your devices—from PCs to smartphones to tablets. It provides easyto-
use admin controls and the ability to install Office quickly without the need to uninstall previous
versions. Always have access to the latest technology for an affordable subscription fee and no
upfront infrastructure costs, backed by industry-leading security features and a 99.9% financially
backed uptime service level agreement.
Microsoft 365 Business - Presented by Razor TechnologyDavid J Rosenthal
We want to introduce you to Microsoft 365 Business — a single platform and security solution designed with you in mind. It’s built to keep things simple for you and your people, bringing together the best of what Microsoft has to offer: the security features and innovation of Windows 10 with the power and familiarity of Office 365, with easy management tools.
Windows 10 allows you and your team members to access your files, folders, and apps from virtually anywhere, on your devices. You can take advantage of your digital assistant, Cortana.
Office 365 gives you powerful apps and tools to enable you to collaborate inside and outside your company and make work on the go more productive and easier.
We are bringing the best of Intune to enable you to protect your data in your Office mobile apps, even on personal devices. If someone loses their device, or leaves your organization, you can easily wipe the company data.
our slide show explaining everything you need to know about Microsoft 365 it goes in to detail on how it can save you money each month along with how it can help your company
What is Microsoft 365 Business?
An integrated solution bringing together best-in-class productivity tools, security and device management
A holistic set of business productivity and collaboration tools
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, and Access
Exchange, OneDrive, Skype, Teams, SharePoint
Business apps from Office (Bookings, Outlook Customer Manager, MileIQ1, Listings1, Connections1, Invoicing1)
Enterprise-grade device management and security capabilities
App protection for Office mobile apps
Device management for Windows 10 PCs
Consistent security configuration across devices
Protection of company data across devices
Windows Defender, always-on and up-to-date
Simplified device deployment and user setup
Single admin console to setup and manage users and devices
Auto-installation of Office apps on Windows 10 PCs
Always up-to-date Office + Windows 10
Streamlined deployment of PCs with Windows AutoPilot
This session will provide a basic overview of Microsoft 365 and will then dive into how to position its benefits for customers. You'll learn how the Microsoft 365 features help resolve many common business challenges today and how you should be speaking with customers about these.
Achieve more with the Microsoft 365 productivity platformMike van Zandwijk
Recently Microsoft To-Do and Planner got married. Or at least engaged since those red Outlook follow-up flags flirt with To-Do too. All to boost your productivity. To achieve more. Microsoft 365 also provide hidden gems like Microsoft Bookings, Search and Cortana .
Let's explore how you and your team can get more productive when you adopt those integrated services.
everything you will need to know about dynamics 365 for any additional information or free trials send one of my team a email on sales@midirasolutions.co.uk
webpage : https://www.midirasolutions.co.uk
Microsoft Solves BYOD Using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and...Microsoft
Microsoft IT enables employees to bring their own devices to work. IT distributes personal hardware budgets to internal departments. We have worked hard to make IT-standard devices be compelling and easy to acquire, but teams can buy what they want. We have clear practices related to support based on the device.
We expanded our device support with the growth of tablets and smart phones. We believe internal users should opt into being managed by IT, where they give up some control in order to get more access to corporate resources. For example, if the device doesn't have TPM-enforced bit locker and multi-factor authentication, the user can't get to sensitive data. We recommend Windows-based devices over others due to usability and security, and we provide guidance to employees with personal devices. That said, we have more than 10,000 iOS and Android devices on our network, and many more Macs (Microsoft has software for the Macintosh and a dedicated business group). Read this IT technical case study on unified device management for more details.
Foster Employee Engagement and Create a Digital Culture Through Microsoft Mod...David J Rosenthal
Microsoft 365 is a platform for workplace modernization across security, compliance, productivity, and communications.
Why one platform – the best of suite approach versus best of breed
Microsoft is now best of breed is many of these capabilities as well across security, compliance, meetings, and collaboration.
Delivered a session for C# Corner Bangalore Chapter Meet for "Workshop on Digital Transformation and Office 365" on the following topic: "Modern Workplace with Microsoft 365"
Event Url: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/events/workshop-on-digital-transformation-and-office-365
Microsoft 365 provides holistic security across these four aspects of security.
By helping enterprise businesses secure corporate data and manage risk in today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world Microsoft 365 enables customers to digitally transform by unifying user productivity and enterprise security tools into a single suite that enables the modern workplace.
Identity & Access Mgmt
Secure identities to reach zero trust
Threat Protection
Help stop damaging attacks with integrated and automated security
Information Protection
Protect sensitive information anywhere it lives
Security Management
Strengthen your security posture with insights and guidance
Respond-Recover-Reimagine: Building Business ResilienceDavid J Rosenthal
Digital transformation is more
urgent than ever
Even organizations that were farther along in their
digital transformation journey before the pandemic
now need to move more quickly. The imperative isn’t
just to transform, but to improve agility, speed to market,
and stability—to achieve faster return on investment.
How Using Microsoft Office 365 Can Benefit Your OrganisationBright Technology
The growth of cloud infrastructure in recent years has led to a surge in popularity of Software as a Service (SaaS) packages such as Microsoft Office 365. This popularity stems from a variety of factors, including ease of use, reduced costs, and automatic updates. Recent research by IDC demonstrates that businesses are increasingly using cloud-first procurement strategies. As
a result of this and other factors, IDC forecasts that global public revenue from IT cloud services will grow at over 19% through 2019, nearly 6 times the growth rate of IT spending growth as a whole – with spending on SaaS leading the way. Currently, almost 80% of businesses deploy or fully embrace the cloud, according to IDC. Furthermore, the percentage of companies expressing no
interest in the cloud has declined to 8% from 21% in 2014. The cloud has truly become a mainstream IT tool for most businesses, offering enhanced productivity enabling companies to improve the efficiency of their operations. This guide will explain why the cloud matters to SMEs (small and medium-size enterprises) as well as covering in detail the various features and benefits of the Microsoft Office 365 cloud bundle.
Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 completed recently across the world with a huge success, and I had the opportunity to co-organize the event in Chennai, India. Also delivered a session under the IT Pro track on "Securing Your Organization with Microsoft 365. Uploaded the Session Slides here.
Event url: http://chennai-gab2018.azurewebsites.net/
Enabling Teamwork From Anywhere - From Microsoft and Razor TechnologyDavid J Rosenthal
As we look at how Microsoft 365 cost savings can help customers achieve their goals, these are the key categories of savings.
Consolidating to a single vendor can cost much less than choosing different vendors for multiple capabilities. Microsoft 365 includes many of the capabilities for which you are currently paying other vendors.
The expectation is that every customer should be able to reduce administration effort because Microsoft will now be responsible for maintaining the hardware and software. This helps IT transition to higher-value activities and boost morale.
The security solutions within Microsoft 365 greatly reduce the number of successful end user security attacks. Attacks that are successful are usually found faster when the impact is less severe. That means easier remediation. Compliance solutions help reduce your risk by managing alerts on potential insider risk, protecting sensitive information, and quickly finding and responding to regulatory requests.
Microsoft 365 helps organizations reduce office space costs by enabling them to move on-site employees to permanent, secure and remote positions. It also allows for valuable collaboration while reducing travel costs.
Microsoft 365 helps organizations transform and streamline business processes through workflows, dashboards, AI capabilities, and more.
Any customer previously paying for Microsoft client software and CALs that would no longer be required after licensing Microsoft 365 would receive this benefit.
Compared to their on-prem peers, customers who have strongly adopted Microsoft 365 are:
66% more likely to say they are “very confident” in their org to deliver technology that’d help them manage through challenges.
57% more likely to say that end users have the technology to enable flexibility to choose where they get their jobs done
2.1x higher levels of user satisfaction with the remote work experience relative to peers less adopted on Microsoft 365.
The Business Case for Hosting JD Edwards in the CloudNERUG
This presentation will cover in detail the business case for hosting JD Edwards in the cloud. Hear from industry expert, John Bassett, CTO at GSI, Inc. During the presentation, John will address the following topics, comparing hosting to a more traditional in-house approach:
- Total cost of ownership (TCO)
- IT staffing and support costs
- Licensing costs
- Cost Predictability
- Security and compliance
- Scalability, performance and reliability
- Business continuity and redundancy
- System deployment
- System management, ongoing maintenance and upgrades
- Market adaptability, agility and innovation
Achieve more with the Microsoft 365 productivity platformMike van Zandwijk
Recently Microsoft To-Do and Planner got married. Or at least engaged since those red Outlook follow-up flags flirt with To-Do too. All to boost your productivity. To achieve more. Microsoft 365 also provide hidden gems like Microsoft Bookings, Search and Cortana .
Let's explore how you and your team can get more productive when you adopt those integrated services.
everything you will need to know about dynamics 365 for any additional information or free trials send one of my team a email on sales@midirasolutions.co.uk
webpage : https://www.midirasolutions.co.uk
Microsoft Solves BYOD Using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and...Microsoft
Microsoft IT enables employees to bring their own devices to work. IT distributes personal hardware budgets to internal departments. We have worked hard to make IT-standard devices be compelling and easy to acquire, but teams can buy what they want. We have clear practices related to support based on the device.
We expanded our device support with the growth of tablets and smart phones. We believe internal users should opt into being managed by IT, where they give up some control in order to get more access to corporate resources. For example, if the device doesn't have TPM-enforced bit locker and multi-factor authentication, the user can't get to sensitive data. We recommend Windows-based devices over others due to usability and security, and we provide guidance to employees with personal devices. That said, we have more than 10,000 iOS and Android devices on our network, and many more Macs (Microsoft has software for the Macintosh and a dedicated business group). Read this IT technical case study on unified device management for more details.
Foster Employee Engagement and Create a Digital Culture Through Microsoft Mod...David J Rosenthal
Microsoft 365 is a platform for workplace modernization across security, compliance, productivity, and communications.
Why one platform – the best of suite approach versus best of breed
Microsoft is now best of breed is many of these capabilities as well across security, compliance, meetings, and collaboration.
Delivered a session for C# Corner Bangalore Chapter Meet for "Workshop on Digital Transformation and Office 365" on the following topic: "Modern Workplace with Microsoft 365"
Event Url: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/events/workshop-on-digital-transformation-and-office-365
Microsoft 365 provides holistic security across these four aspects of security.
By helping enterprise businesses secure corporate data and manage risk in today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world Microsoft 365 enables customers to digitally transform by unifying user productivity and enterprise security tools into a single suite that enables the modern workplace.
Identity & Access Mgmt
Secure identities to reach zero trust
Threat Protection
Help stop damaging attacks with integrated and automated security
Information Protection
Protect sensitive information anywhere it lives
Security Management
Strengthen your security posture with insights and guidance
Respond-Recover-Reimagine: Building Business ResilienceDavid J Rosenthal
Digital transformation is more
urgent than ever
Even organizations that were farther along in their
digital transformation journey before the pandemic
now need to move more quickly. The imperative isn’t
just to transform, but to improve agility, speed to market,
and stability—to achieve faster return on investment.
How Using Microsoft Office 365 Can Benefit Your OrganisationBright Technology
The growth of cloud infrastructure in recent years has led to a surge in popularity of Software as a Service (SaaS) packages such as Microsoft Office 365. This popularity stems from a variety of factors, including ease of use, reduced costs, and automatic updates. Recent research by IDC demonstrates that businesses are increasingly using cloud-first procurement strategies. As
a result of this and other factors, IDC forecasts that global public revenue from IT cloud services will grow at over 19% through 2019, nearly 6 times the growth rate of IT spending growth as a whole – with spending on SaaS leading the way. Currently, almost 80% of businesses deploy or fully embrace the cloud, according to IDC. Furthermore, the percentage of companies expressing no
interest in the cloud has declined to 8% from 21% in 2014. The cloud has truly become a mainstream IT tool for most businesses, offering enhanced productivity enabling companies to improve the efficiency of their operations. This guide will explain why the cloud matters to SMEs (small and medium-size enterprises) as well as covering in detail the various features and benefits of the Microsoft Office 365 cloud bundle.
Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 completed recently across the world with a huge success, and I had the opportunity to co-organize the event in Chennai, India. Also delivered a session under the IT Pro track on "Securing Your Organization with Microsoft 365. Uploaded the Session Slides here.
Event url: http://chennai-gab2018.azurewebsites.net/
Enabling Teamwork From Anywhere - From Microsoft and Razor TechnologyDavid J Rosenthal
As we look at how Microsoft 365 cost savings can help customers achieve their goals, these are the key categories of savings.
Consolidating to a single vendor can cost much less than choosing different vendors for multiple capabilities. Microsoft 365 includes many of the capabilities for which you are currently paying other vendors.
The expectation is that every customer should be able to reduce administration effort because Microsoft will now be responsible for maintaining the hardware and software. This helps IT transition to higher-value activities and boost morale.
The security solutions within Microsoft 365 greatly reduce the number of successful end user security attacks. Attacks that are successful are usually found faster when the impact is less severe. That means easier remediation. Compliance solutions help reduce your risk by managing alerts on potential insider risk, protecting sensitive information, and quickly finding and responding to regulatory requests.
Microsoft 365 helps organizations reduce office space costs by enabling them to move on-site employees to permanent, secure and remote positions. It also allows for valuable collaboration while reducing travel costs.
Microsoft 365 helps organizations transform and streamline business processes through workflows, dashboards, AI capabilities, and more.
Any customer previously paying for Microsoft client software and CALs that would no longer be required after licensing Microsoft 365 would receive this benefit.
Compared to their on-prem peers, customers who have strongly adopted Microsoft 365 are:
66% more likely to say they are “very confident” in their org to deliver technology that’d help them manage through challenges.
57% more likely to say that end users have the technology to enable flexibility to choose where they get their jobs done
2.1x higher levels of user satisfaction with the remote work experience relative to peers less adopted on Microsoft 365.
The Business Case for Hosting JD Edwards in the CloudNERUG
This presentation will cover in detail the business case for hosting JD Edwards in the cloud. Hear from industry expert, John Bassett, CTO at GSI, Inc. During the presentation, John will address the following topics, comparing hosting to a more traditional in-house approach:
- Total cost of ownership (TCO)
- IT staffing and support costs
- Licensing costs
- Cost Predictability
- Security and compliance
- Scalability, performance and reliability
- Business continuity and redundancy
- System deployment
- System management, ongoing maintenance and upgrades
- Market adaptability, agility and innovation
Companies are moving their JD Edwards applications to the cloud to increase business agility while they are mindful not to compromise on application security or customizations that support their unique business. This presentation provides customer examples of what it is like to move JD Edwards applications to the cloud, including the customer business case, typical questions that should be asked of the business, and the benefits achieved by making the move to the cloud. Learn how delivering JD Edwards applications in the virtual private cloud enables your business to focus internal technology staff on innovative or transformational projects while providing a world-class customer experience and delivering application access to top levels of performance and availability.
Safeguard your business with Microsoft Office 365 and PlanBcparnoldvilleneuve
PlanBcp offers one of the most comprehensive solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity planning. DR/BC planning is effort of coordination between many people in the organization. PlanBcp helps the organization accomplish this coordination more easily by provided a guided approach to information collection and capture, business impact analysis, and plan development. It also allows you to track your progress so that everyone can see exactly where the organization is in terms of its DR/BC readiness. And by hosting it on Microsoft Office 365 / SharePoint Online you know your plans will always be available even if your building no longer is!
The main benefit to an organization of having a well documented and tested DR/BC plan is keeping its people employed and its customers serviced. Industry statics say that 50% of the business that do not recover within 7 to 10 business days are in fact out of business within one year. Don't be one of them. Start developing your business continuity approach today!
Katja Retsin en schoonzus Barbara Janssens richtten in 2007 de kledingzaak CLOSE-UP op. Ondertussen staat de teller op vier winkels en één webshop.
De winkels worden beheerd door de onderneming met de toepasselijke naam ‘De Meisjes’.
Introduction to Microsoft Office 365 for Small Business - by Denver IT SupportNorth Star. Inc.
Introduction to Microsoft Office 365 for Small Business - Presented by your Denver IT Support and Technology Consultants at North Star, Inc.
Visit http://www.nssit.com
Jd edwards upgrade roundtable at innovate15 empire merchants case studyNERUG
An in-depth, interactive session addressing real world scenarios and the challenges that are often faced during an upgrade. Hear from customer and other "experts" who will share experiences, best practices and lessons learned and help eliminate "the gotchas!" If you’re planning or contemplating an upgrade, this session provides a great opportunity to understand what lies ahead -- and be much more prepared!
Customer Service Call Center Benchmark StudyChris Scafario
This presentation highlights some best practice players in the world of customer service and call center management; from first time resolution to order up sells. It also goes on to perform a rather organizationally specific gap analysis complete with actions steps designed to support a journey of continuous improvement.
Example Call Center Work/Information Flow DiagramEquilibria, Inc.
There are bound to be times when your customer support team encounters a problem dealing with customers. You have no control over what customers say or do, but you do have control over how team members respond to questions or complaints in an efficient and productive way. With a combination of competent team members, well-written scripts and the right technology, your business can attract and retain happy and loyal customers.
Process maps (flowcharts) are one tool companies use to ensure team members know how to address customer support questions, escalate issues, and route calls. In this presentation, we begin with a process map given to employees working in a call center to screen job candidates. If you enjoy working with flowcharts, you’ll love this method to investigate your own customer service model. More process map templates are available for download at www.eqbsystems.com/shop. Thanks for watching!
What is Office 365?
Office 365 is a cloud-based service hosted by Microsoft. The new Office provides access to your
familiar Office applications, email, calendar, video conferencing, and most up-to-date documents
from virtually anywhere, across your devices—from PCs to smartphones to tablets. It provides easyto-
use admin controls and the ability to install Office quickly without the need to uninstall previous
versions. Always have access to the latest technology for an affordable subscription fee and no
upfront infrastructure costs, backed by industry-leading security features and a 99.9% financially
backed uptime service level agreement.
Microsoft Office 365 for home or small business, use word, excel, power point , OneDrive, OneNote, Lync, outlook, share point and send to one note in your PC, Mac, Tablets and Smart Devices
Office 365 ülevaade – räägime, millest kõige kiiremini kasvav pilveteenus koosneb, milliseid osasid ettevõtete praegusest infosüsteemist see asendab, kuidas teenust kõige mõistlikum on osta ning võrdleme hindasid alternatiivsete pakkumistega. Räägime sellest, mis on Office 365-s uut ja mis tulemas.
Primend Pilveseminar - Office 365 Updates & Skype For BusinessPrimend
Skype for Business ja Office 365 uuendused - Tõnis Tikerpäe
Aasta alguses ühendas Microsoft kõik oma sõnumivahetuse ja telekonverentside platvormid Skype'i kaubamärgi alla. Aprillis saabus Office 365 portaali uus seadmete haldamise funktsionaalsus sh. nutiseadmed.
Book a demo here at http://www.esna.com/#demo
Esna Officelinx Collaboration + Messaging is a comprehensive unified communications and collaboration platform. Officelinx offers next generation cloud-enabled communication features that improve collaboration and boost productivity, including:
- Unified messaging with voicemail that integrates voice and fax messages with email and social collaboration applications from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Jive and others
- Real-time communication applications like voice and instant messaging (IM) communications, presence, click-to-call, voice conferencing, and geo-location mapping integrated inside business applications like email and CRM
- Voice conferencing that enables you to easily create or join collaborative voice conference meetings
Office 365 Presentation - Renato Civili, Infosoft SystemsInfosoft Systems
Office 365 is the best-in-class productivity platform for a modern business. It works the way you want to. It is a consistent, familiar and synced experience across your smartphone, tablet, and desktop.
Identity + Mobile Management + Security
Keep your employees productive on their favorite apps and devices—and your company data protected with enterprise mobility solutions from Microsoft.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
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Office 365 Plan for Midsize Business
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4. Cloud productivity services hosted by Microsoft
Enterprise-quality tools at an affordable price
Always up-to-date
Office, email, document sharing, video conferencing
Simplified admin console
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6. Access documents,
email, calendar, and
contacts with Office
applications optimized
for your PC or Mac…
as well as your tablet
and smartphone.
7. Save to the cloud by
default for automatic
backup
Sign in to Office and
access the latest
documents and personal
settings
Sync files to your
devices using SkyDrive Pro
for offline access and
automatic re-syncing
8. Use Office even when
you are away from your
PC
Sign in to Office using
any browser and quickly
stream an Office
application for full-
experience viewing and
editing
Close your work without
leaving traces on the
device
9. Work on documents
even when you’re away
from your device and
using an old or non-
Windows machine
11. Host and participate
in online meetings with
multi-party HD video
conferencing, screen
sharing, and real-time
note taking
12. Create a mailbox within
a site to keep track of View your project progress in
team communications a single view on the team
site.
Use Project and
SharePoint together
to share and track
project information
13. Share documents from
SkyDrive Pro or
SharePoint team sites
with controlled access
Share directly from
Office applications
Easily share documents with others
14. Get updates on your newsfeed based on the
people, documents, sites, and tags you are
following
Take advantage of an
integrated social
experience to stay close Share ideas and get
to the people and answers in real time
content that’s important on your newsfeed
to you
Click to communicate
utilizing pervasive
presence and people
cards
Get updates from social sites
right inside the contact cards
15. Microsoft Excel:
Recommends most
suitable charts based
on patterns in your data
Offers quick peek of
different charts for you Recommend different charts
to pick the best based on the data selected
Provides recommended
PivotTable
17. Add or delete users,
manage email, and set
document sharing policies
Simplify management
with a single, web-
based admin center
One admin console for all
services, with quick overview
of service health
Stay up to date with in-line
planned maintenance reminders
18. Easy to manage and deploy anti-malware
Take advantage of Anti-spam
powerful and always policies to keep
your business
up-to-date protection secure and free
that’s easy to manage of clutter
and deploy
19. Set and manage mobile
access and policies to
protect company data Easy tools
to add
security to
mobile
devices
20. Ready to use within
moments of clicking
“install”
Built on Microsoft
virtualization technology
Stays on the machine
and can go offline once
installed
21. Deploy the new Office
without uninstalling
previous versions
Eliminate legacy or
compatibility concerns
22. Continuous data
backup to geo-
redundant servers
99.9% financially- Gives you peace of
backed service level mind that Microsoft
is committed to a
agreement 99.9% financially
IT level phone support backed SLA
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Business Premium Midsize Business Enterprise E3
Voicemail, In-Place Hold, Data Loss Prevention
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Rights Management
InfoPath Forms, Access, Excel, Visio Services
Active Directory® Integration
Office Desktop Applications
Office
Click to Run Office Deployment Pull Pull Push
Office Web Applications
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Services
Email, IM, Collaboration, Storage
IT Level Phone Support Basic Expanded Full
IT Administration Console Basic Expanded Full
Seat targets 1–10 11–250 >250
Price (per user/month in US Dollars) $12.50 $15 $20
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27. Latest version of Office desktop apps licensed as a subscription Hosted business-class email and shared calendar
Per user licensing across 5 PCs/Macs and 5 mobile devices 25 GB of storage space per user
Stream any Office application on a PC while traveling Robust anti-spam and anti-malware
Deploy Office on desktops quickly and effortlessly Set and manage mobile access and policies
Document sharing and management in the cloud Presence, IM, voice, and HD video conferencing
Share documents with customers/partners with controlled access Real-time note taking and document sharing
Sync online files to your devices for offline access with SkyDrive Pro Conduct Lync meetings with customers and partners
Share team emails and documents with Site Mailboxes Connect with Skype contacts using presence, IM, and voice
Editor's Notes
Slide purpose: Use this slide to welcome your guests and to set their expectations for the presentation. Presentation purpose:This presentation is designed to help you introduce the new Office 365 SKU,Office 365 Midsize Business, to the TDM and/or BDM of midsize businesses under 250 users, who want core communication and collaboration capabilities, and IT control. The deck starts with business pains, then go into how Office 365 can solve those pains. Your goal as presenter is to achieve the following:Introduce yourself and demonstrate the value you can bring to the customer.Highlight the solution and scenarios of the new OfficeShow that you are someone who can discuss Office 365 solutions knowledgeably.Expand your conversation to Project and Visio if it makes sense (see appendix slides)How to present this slide:Leverage the content below to explain what the audience can expect from the presentation.What can customers get from this presentation?Learn about the features and benefits of Office 365 and the cloud.Get immediate feedback on their questions and concerns about moving to Office 365 and/or the cloud.Talk to someone who understands IT and specific business needs.Get directions about taking action and next steps.
Slide purpose: Establish that you understand the challenges and concerns of midsize businesses, and why they have unique requirements that make them different from small businesses and large enterprises.How to present this slide: Read the pain points out from left to right. Add color to each point using the content below. Use this slide to set up the value prop shown in the next slideTalk track“People need to work on many different devices.” means they want “Anywhere Access”Challenges of Anywhere Access:A large percentage of today’s workforce spends at least part of their day away from their desk. When they are not sitting at their desks, they still need access to the things important to them, and they would want and need to access them using the mobile devices they have, whether it’s a smartphone or tabletLimited access to documents, email, calendars and people can impact their productivity and the level of their customer service. In addition, it would be nice for mobile workers to get access without the need for a VPN.Businesses need a way to meet cutthroat competition while finding new projects & customers.In a competitive marketplace, they need their workforce to have information and answers at their fingertips.Businesses need to provide better/fasterways to show work to their customers.“People who don’t work in the same location need to work together.” means they want to “Work BetterTogether”Challenges of Working Together:When your business is growing, you have employees working from different office locations, from client or home offices, or when travelling.If they are not using the same set of tools, remote workers will have trouble connecting and collaborating with everyone else, thus causing inefficiency and lost productivityEven if they are using the same tools, if the tools themselves are not built to work natively with each other, i.e. using separate point solutions for email, collaboration, instant messaging (IM), or conferencing, you are not maximizing your people’s time, causing end user frustration and IT resources to build that integration. Lack of enterprise messaging and collaboration capabilities hinders team members’ ability to confidently work together on documents and in meetings.You need to securely and easily share documents – sometimes large files – with team members and outside your organization – do you want to trust third-party website with your confidential content or you prefer to use a site that is branded and has the controls you need“Managing complex infrastructure takes our IT staff away from the important projects.” means they want “Easy IT”Challenges of Easy IT:Many companies face a heavy IT burden and feel tied to their servers, distracting IT from working on more strategic activities.Then there are security and reliability fears. Companies fear attacks from spam,viruses, malware —especially if it impacts their customers.Another IT headache comes from problems with integration, functionality, and ease of use.Even when you have a new solution in place, that solution often requires employee training time that IT and the end user don’t have.“We are cost conscious nowadays more than ever.” means they want the “Best Value” for their IT investmentChallenges of Best Value: You are always torn between wanting the best technology for your business so you can continue to grow and balancing your budget. Given the uncertainty of worldwide economy, more and more companies are expected to do more with smaller IT budgets and headcounts.Even when you want to upgrade, it’s a high capital expense to buy a new server. Plus the on-going expenses of maintaining and troubleshooting.And what about the hardware and software that companies already own? There’s a lot of fear over losing current infrastructure investments.It’s hard to keep track of licensing costs and there’s often confusion over switching licenses. Given all these challenges, what you are really looking for is technology that fits the needs of your business. [click]
Slide purpose: Explain how Office 365 is the right technology based on the challenges and pain points outlined in the previous slide.How to present this slide: Transition from previous slide by saying, “Given all these challenges, what you are really looking for is technology that fits the needs of your business.” Use this slide to tee-up how technology can help with giving them anywhere access, work better together, simplify their IT and get the best bang for their buck.Talk trackBenefits of Anywhere Access:Anywhere access is important because you want to provide users with easy access to email,content, and business-ready tools to work on the devices you use already.Even when you don’t have your devices, you want to be able to securely access your content and tools to do what you need to doThis is especially important when you are dealing with customer requests because you want to respond immediately and provide the best serviceYou also want to be able to create a sense of community even when not everyone comes to work in the same office everyday.Benefits of Working Together:You want technology that can help your people work better together:Having the same technology for everyone so it’s easier to communicate and share workTechnology that understands and facilitates the social aspect of how people get things done these daysBusiness tools that are built to work together out of the box to help you with email, creating documents, sharing documents, managing projects, and customer meetingsBenefits of Easy IT:You want to simplify your IT infrastructureYou want to be able to control access to sensitive documentsYou want to make sure all the services work with each other out of the box so you can spend less time integrating solutions and more time working on important projectsYou need to know that your data is secure and that your systems don’t go downYou need to have a business continuity plan when unfortunate events happen, such as a power outage or natural disasterYou want IT-level phone support to be available when you need helpYou want to secure all the mobile devicesBenefits of Best Value:Every dollar counts. You want the best technology to support the growth of your businessBut you also want to make sure you invest in technologies that have the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) but also the highest return in end-user productivity.You want to have predictability of your IT cost each month and be able to easily scale up and down.You want to simplify licensing, and one that supports the proliferation of devices in the workplaceYou don’t want updates and new deployments to be a full-time job but still want to stay up-to-date to the latest technologies.
Slide purpose: Break the news that there is now a specific offering for midsize businesses called Office 365 Midsize Business. Explain what Office 365 is and what Office 365 Midsize Business includes at a high level.How to present this slide:Keep in mind that most people, when they hear “Office 365”, only hear “Office” and think “Word, PowerPoint, Excel”. And when they hear “cloud”, they think “web apps” only, thinking this is only a browser-based version of Office, similar to Google Apps. So it’s important to take your time and labor on these 2 points specifically. Transition from previous slide by saying, “We understand what technology you need to help you manage the business challenges you are facing. We are excited that there is a new offering in the market that has been designed specifically for you….”Talk trackIntroducing Office 365 Midsize Business – this is an offering specifically designed for businesses with less than 250 usersFirst of all, Office 365 is a cloud-based productivity service hosted by MicrosoftIt gives you enterprise-quality productivity tools at an affordable priceBecause this is a cloud service, you always have access to the latest, most up-to-date technology…Including the latest version of the familiar Office applications (like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, that you currently run on your PC or laptop)…Connecting seamlessly with business-class email and calendar, with the ability to share documents, and set up online meetings with audio/video conferencing.(If you feel customers will know the product names, you can mention this) These are all services powered by our enterprise-grade solutions, Exchange Online for email, SharePoint Online for document sharing and business processes, Lync Online for IM, presence, and conferencing.All these services are built to work together seamlessly so you can easily start an IM or schedule an online meeting in Outlook or any Office applications.Plus all these services can be managed within a single web-based admin console so you can easily integrate with your existing Active Directory, add/delete users, and add security to your mobile devices, etc.All services are supported and backed by the same 99.9% uptime guarantee service level agreement.In contrast, some key business needs, such as Voice for PC to PC calling, Google Contacts, and Google Video, are not covered by the Google Apps for Business service level agreement (SLA). What’s unique about Office 365 is that:It works perfectly with the Office you know and use so your employeesdon’t have to learn a new tool or require additional training from youIt is designed to help you work seamlessly online or offline:Say you are working on a proposal and want to get feedback from your partners or customers. You can start working on it on your own computer, then save to the cloud and share it securely with partners or customers for feedback. They can then access the documents and work on them with you online instead of emailing different versions back and forth. If you go offline, say when on a plane, you can still access the documents and work on them offline (using SkyDrive Pro), and Office 365 will automatically sync the document back to the cloud as soon as you have connections again.These are all enterprise-class services – trusted by large corporations designed to give you the reliability and security you expect.Coca-Cola Enterprises (72,000 employees), Starbucks, Campbell Soup, Hyatt Hotels (106,000 employees), the Department of Veterans Affairs (600,000 employees), Lowes (>200,000 employees), Hallmark (9,500 employees), Japan Airlines (20,000 employees), and Burger King (3,500 users). We do not violate your privacy or confidentiality requirements by using scanning technologies to read your email for targeting advertising like Google does.Let’s drill down now on the specifics of Office 365 to help you understand why it’s the right technology for your business. The first area we talked about is “anywhere access”….
We talked about how your “people need to work on many different devices” and that they have the best experience and the best tools when working on different devices. Let’s see how Office 365 can help you with this…
Before the click:Office 365 includes the latest version of all the familiar Office applications – including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook – for you to use on your PCs and Macs. After the Click:In addition, it also provides access to certain Office applications that are optimized for tablets and smartphones. For example, Outlook for Windows tablets is optimized for touch experience and makes it easier for users to interact, compose and manage their email on the go. Lync and OneNote for Windows Phones as well as iOS and Android operating system provide the rich experience on the mobile phones. For each Office 365 licenseduser,you can use Office on up to 5 PC or Mac, and 5 mobile devices.
There is no use for Office on all your devices if you can’t get to your documents.With Office 365, your documents are saved to the cloud by default so they are automatically backed up. You now have a “drive” in the cloud called SkyDrive Pro for documents that you are managing and working on but can also share with others (see screenshot, point to the SkyDrive Pro link at the top right bar)Because everything is saved to the cloud, when you sign into Office from any browser, you will always have the latest version of your documents follow you. See this list of your latest documents (point to the screenshot on the left). This also goes for settings like your personal dictionary and custom templates. When your documents are saved in the cloud, you can also sync (point to the sync button on the top right) these files to your laptop or mobile devices so you can still access and work on them when you are offline. It will automatically re-sync it back to the cloud when you have your connection back.
So what about when you don’t have your devices with you?Now you can use Office even when you are away from your devices. You can stream Office to any Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine and this could be a machine in a hotel lobby or at your parents place where you are staying for the weekend. Open the browser of that PC, log into Office, and click on “use Office on Demand” [Click] will give you the choice to select the Office application you want to stream down [second click].In just a matter of a couple minutes, the application will stream down to the PC and you will have the rich Office experience to work on your documents.Office doesn’t need to be installed on that machine or it’ll run side-by-side with an older version. You don’t even need to have administrative rights on the PC to do thisOnce saved, the documents are stored in SkyDrive and the Office application is removed from the PC, leaving no traces of it on the device.
Office on Demand is just one way of using Office when you are away from the device. If you just need to make a quick edit or you are on a non-Windows machine, you can simply open the documents in a browser, using Office Web Apps.Office Web Apps are now improved to provide you with the full feature experience in your web browser so you can create new documents or edit using your favorite browser. [Click]With the new and improved Web Apps, you get more of the same ribbon experience that you are familiar with in the rich application. And more options will be added as we continue to make editions in the upcoming releases. [Click]Get updated editing functionality like inline reply to comments as well as rich editing experienceWith the choice of the rich Office experience with Office On Demand as well as the improved Office Web Apps, users get the best productivity experience when they are away from the personal computers.
The next big area that most customers want to accomplish is to enable a mobile workforce to work together. Let’s dive into some of the great functionality available in Office 365 to enable everybody to work better together. [Click]
The biggest challenge for remote workers is to hold meetings, especially productive meetings together. Lync Online in Office 365 has solved this problem by adding multiparty high-definition video conferencing where every participant can now interact with everybody else on the meeting in a more lively manner. Plus, with the ability to share your screen, may it be a specific document, presentation or your entire desktop, users can convey their point clearly to the audience of the meeting. [Click]The new Lync Online in Office 365 now also supports creating a shared OneNote meeting notes during the meeting. This means with one click, you create a OneNote that everyone in the call has access to and can start typing at the same time. Everyone can see and verify the list of action items as they are being discussed during the meeting so there are less chances for errors and ensure everyone is on the same page. Since it’s a shared OneNote, it also means the organizer of the meeting can delegate the responsibility of note-taking to someone else in the call if need be.
With the new Office 365 team sites and Site Mailboxes, you can manage a project very easily right from within Outlook. Subscribe to one of the Site Mailboxes for a given project and it shows up as a separate mailbox in the Outlook navigation window. This happens for all members of the team that are invited to join by the Site Mailbox creator. Once visible, you can drag and drop any email from the personal mailbox to the team mailbox and the mail will be accessible by the entire team.[Click]You can also manage the documents related to the project from within Outlook. Click the Shared Documents folder under the team mailbox and you will see all the documents that are shared by the team related to this project. Drag any document from email attachment to here or from the desktop and it is uploaded to SharePoint for the entire team to consume. [Click]In addition to managing emails and documents, you can edit the project tasks list on SharePoint and get a quick view at the progress of the project from the Team Site page. All these enhancements are based on customer feedback to help you collaborate on projects easily.
In addition to making it easy to share documents and emails with a pre-set team structure, you also want to do ad-hoc sharing and also sharing with external partners or customers.With SkyDrive Pro or any other document library within SharePoint Online, you can easily share documents from the preview pane. This preview pane helps ensure it is the right file you want to share.[Click]Or, you can also easily share documents from within each of the Office applications by clicking share.
We are bringing social to the business world to help you stay connected and get things done the way you are already familiar with.[Click]Office 365 provides an integrated social experience to help users keep tabs on what everybody is working on or talking about via the newsfeed.[Click] You can follow people, documents, sites as well as tags to get updates in your newsfeed on all the things that are important to you.[Click] Also, you see the presence wherever you go within Office 365 to know who’s online and available. When you mouse over it, it pops up the same people card, giving you the full details about a person as well as their social feeds all from one location.
The new Office also includes improvements in each of the application to help you work better together with data. One of the example is the new Excel.[click] When you select a table, it will take the data and dynamically generate different charts using your data to quickly preview for you what they will look like, without committing to them.It will do the same for you for PivotTable too – which is something very useful but not the easiest to create from scratch.
We talked about at the beginning how “managing complex infrastructure is taking your IT staff away from important projects.” here are the different ways of how Office 365 can simplify your IT management while still giving you the control you want.
Office 365 simplifies most of the tasks required by IT admins by making them easily accessible via the simplified admin portal. IT administrators can get to workload management portals using the universal nav bar. Also the left navigation frame allows IT administrators to quickly get access to adding users, checking service settings or check on licensing. In addition, Office 365 now have integrated community support where IT Administrators can quickly search for any issues on the community right from within the portal.
Continue along the theme of simplifying administration, IT admins can now setup anti-malware and anti-spam policies for the entire organization with just a few clicks.
Mobile devices are making your users life easier but making it harder for IT to manage. [Click] Now you can enable mobile access and set up mobile access policies for users from the same admin console.You can also remotely wipe data from lost devices within the same console.
Deploying Office in the past has always been a chore. Now you can deploy Office on desktops quickly and effortlessly by streaming the full featured Office desktop applications directly from Office 365. [Click] It’s so simple, users can do it themselves by simply clicking on “install”.This is a ground-breaking technology because rather than taking 30 min to download the .msi file (Microsoft Installer) and then another 20-30 min to install Office. With this click-to-run technology, Office is ready to use within moments (as quick as seconds with a fast Internet connection) of you clicking “install”.This Office stays on the machine so users can go offline once it’s installed. This is not to be confused with Office on demand that we talked about before for you to stream one Office application to any PC for you to edit documents wherever you are.
Not only is the new Office quick to install, it can also run side-by-side with older versions of Office. [Click] Here you have an example of a single machine running both Word 2013 and Word 2003.This is great for many reasons. It means you can deploy and standardize everyone in the company with the new Office but still allowing, say Finance, to open and use a budgeting Excel file with macros built in that they have been using for years. This will give them time to test the new Excel before completely moving off of Office 2003 – which is coming end of support by April 2014.
With Office 365, you have Microsoft as your extended IT department. To make sure you have business continuity, Office 365 delivers continuous data back-up to geo-redundant servers to protectagainst data center-wide failures, loss, accidental deletion, or corruption. Microsoft data centers are built from the ground up to be environmentally sustainableLocations around the world in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia help optimize performanceMicrosoft data centers use state-of-the-art hardware and redundant power supplies[Click]Office 365 comes with a financially backed 99.9 percent availability guarantee. That means less worry for IT.IT level phone supportMidsized Business includes unlimited telephone support during business hours (whereas E3 has 24/7 access)Of course, we have 24x7 phone support on all critical service issuesOur phone support exceeds our closest competition on all of our SKUs.
By this time, you might be thinking everything you have heard so far is good but can I afford this? Let’s see how Office 365 gives you the best bang for your buck.
Business-ready toolsOffice 365 has the broadest definition of what productivity and collaboration means for businessYou get big business tools at affordable price, no compromisesOne stop shop for everything you need to be productive at work, no more cost and hassle of integrating point solutionsMicrosoft builds professional tools for businesses. This is the core of our business. We don’t think about this as a side business so we can useyour business data to sell advertising.Latest technologyBecause Office 365 is a cloud service you subscribe to, you’ll always have the latest version of the technologyOffice is the common language in business for years – you can now subscribe to Office and always get to use the latest versionLow upfront costsYou don’t need to upgrade any servers to use Office 365.You cut down on cost related to server maintenance when you no longer run your own Exchange Server. You just manage your Office 365 services from a web-based admin console.Office 365 also means low training costs because itis based on services that are already familiar to your usersPer-user licenseSimplified per-user rather than per-device licensing: Less time spent tracking licenses, more options for users.With each Office 365 user, you can Office on up to 5 PC or Mac, plus 5 mobile devices which include smartphones and tabletsYou get predictable monthly costs that are easier to budgetIf you have seasonal workers, you can easily add and delete users as you need them.
We introduced the new offering Office 365 Midsize Business earlier on in the presentation as the unique plan designed specifically for businesses under 250 users. To help you choose the right plan for your business, we have a comparison between three popular options: Office 365 Small Business Premium (SBP), Midsized Business (M), and Enterprise E3. There are some similarities across all three plans, for example all three plans include the full featured Office desktop applications. But let’s look at the differences here…First, at the bottom of this table, you can see the seat target for these plans, as well as the pricing (USD dollar shown). There are technical limitations on the number of seats you can add to SBP and M, but you should choose the right plan not only based on these, but also around topics like IT control, support, how to deploy Office, and whether you have advanced business and IT needs.Let’s start from the bottom.IT controlIT admin with Small Business Premium is simple and preconfigured so customers don’t have to do much to get up and running. Midsized Business and E3 customers want greater control and customization from the console, which is why we’ve built in more robust controls like Active Directory integration. The difference between M and E3 is more subtle, where in M you should expect to see more templates and how-to videos for the IT generalists, and in E3, full capability to configure all the services.SupportSupport is much the same. Basic support for Small Business Premium includes initial phone support as needed. Midsized Business includes unlimited telephone support during business hours, whereas E3 has 24/7 access. Of course, we have 24x7 phone support on all critical service issues. Our phone support exceeds our closest competitionon all of our plans. OfficeAs mentioned, all three plans include desktop Office applications licensed as a subscription, plus Office Web Apps. What’s different here is how you get to deploy Office. Office Deployment for Small Business Premium and Midsized Business is a “pull’ experience meaning the end user initiates the deployment and it streams Office directly from Office 365 servers. Push deployment in E3, means that Office may be used with software distribution and automation tools that enable IT admins to install it on behalf of end users.Advanced servicesWe’ve already touched on it, but only Midsized Business and E3 will work with Active Directory. This enables single sign-on for all your PCs and it integrates with your company’s identity system. Users created on-premises are available for license assignment in the cloud, and you will have one place to set up permissions. The biggest difference between M and E3 are advanced services like Excel and Visio Services for SharePoint integration, rights management (allows customers to send IRM mail from Exchange), voicemail, and compliance features like In-Place Hold and Data Loss Prevention. If you need these services, you will want to consider E3 regardless of your company size.
Use this slide to discuss next steps. Customize this to what you want the audience or potential customer to do. Be specific and thoughtful and make it as easy as possible to say “yes”. Check out http://aka.ms/BEST or (http://Office365BEST) for resources you can use as follow up materials:Customer leave behind (M or SBP)Industry e-books
This is a good slide to explain what is included in Office 365 Midsize Businesses. You can consider printing this out as a leave-behind too.When you explain Office 365 to a small and midsizebusiness, it’s easiest to explain in four buckets. The first and foremost, and where most of the exciting investments are coming from for this release, is Office. This is the familiar rich Office client that your customers use and love, but now offered as a cloud service, so it’s always up to date. This Office “knows” you, meaning you now sign into Office so your latest documents and settings roam with you or follow you. Users can use this Office on multiple devices. And when you don’t have your laptop, you can now stream the full Office applications to any PC in minutes with Office on demand so you can work from anywhere. This Office, delivered as a service, is designed to work seamlessly with best of breed productivity services. Exchange Online for hosted business-class email, SharePoint Online for document sharing and sites management, and Lync Online for web conferencing and instant messaging. These are all enterprise-class services designed and optimized for SMB. There is a lot of features and capabilities packed into Office 365, so to start a conversation, Exchange Online is the best workload to lead with because everyone needs and understands email.