The Federal Aviation Administration is flying high with Office 365

FAA flying high with O365The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has selected Office 365 to provide 80,000 of its employees with secure access to email, instant messaging, calendaring and webconferencing tools.  Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) will lead the agency’s cloud implementation.

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What does Office 365 mean to you? (Video)

Flexible subscription model. Anywhere access. Up-to-date shared calendars. Secure document storage and sharing. Worry-free IT. Less travel. Increased productivity.

What do all of these statements have in common? They are how Office 365 customers describe what the service means to them and their business. From a branding and signage company in Australia to a 2014 U.S. Olympic hopeful, companies and people across industries and from all corners of the world are realizing the benefits of Office 365 and cloud-based productivity tools.  

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Customer Roundtable: Businesses around the world are reducing IT costs and saving money with Office 365 (Slideshow)

Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based productivity service for businesses of all sizes. It integrates cloud-based and on-premises workloads, and because it is an online service, Microsoft handles all backups, upgrades, moves, hardware installations and other routine maintenance. As a result, Office 365 customers worldwide are saving money with reduced IT costs.

View the slideshow to learn more about how Office 365 customers from around the world are saving money and enjoying the benefits of our cloud-based service.

How has your business saved money with Office 365? Share your story below.

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What a week of Office 365 wins!

The Catholic International Education Office (OIEC) has entered into an education alliance with Microsoft, to provide Office 365 for its community of Catholic schools across the world. Office 365 will form the foundation of the OIEC’s new Social Network for Catholic Education, which will begin with the provision of software for 4.5 million students as part of a three-year alliance plan.

Office 365 is now also the cloud solution of choice for iLUKA, an events and hospitality firm based in the UK. The firm develops and delivers coordinated activities for its banking, oil, and pharmaceutical clients at global sporting events, such as the FIFA World Cup.

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Living history museum saves $27,000 annually with Office 365 (Video)

Colonial Williamsburg decided to subscribe to Microsoft Office 365, a services offering that combines the familiar functionality of the Office desktop suite with cloud-based versions of next-generation communications and collaboration services. By using Office 365, the museum found it could do a better job of marketing to and providing services for customers, reducing costs by $27,000 annually.

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Bold Steps Towards the Future

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The new technology landscape can offer operating efficiencies for all sizes of business.  In the last several months, we have seen this belief reinforced by the migration of leading public and private institutions onto both the Google Apps and the Office 365 platform.

On the public sphere, we saw The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration move onto the Google for Government platform, with 25,000 seats.  UC Berkeley (50,000 seats) also migrated to Google, and told us exactly why they chose Google over Microsoft.  More recently, The All India Council for Technical Education shook hands with Microsoft executives, a deal that will move 7 million students, faculty, and staff onto the Office 365 version for education.  This is now the largest ever cloud migration.  On the private side, and from the banking industry no less, the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, which is headquartered in Spain, recently moved 110,000 employees onto the Google Apps for Business platform.

Obviously, we are moving towards market majority who are now or will soon be leveraging the new platform for business efficiency.  Companies who are nervous about critical information will simply keep that information on their local servers.  For the day to day routine of employee collaboration and communication, the cloud based solutions are being adopted in droves.

These news items beg the question; what about the small business owner?  Can the cloud help small business operate leaner also?  My next blog post will offer an apples to apples cost analysis.

Berkeley Explains Exactly Why It Chose Google Over Microsoft

Matt Rosoff | Dec. 23, 2011, 12:36 AM

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The University of California at Berkeley just decided to move off its old email system. It chose Gmail over Microsoft’s Office 365.

Usually, the decision-making process that goes into such a choice is shrouded in secrecy. But Berkeley decided to be transparent, and published a matrix explaining the pros and cons of both solutions.

In basic terms, Cal decided it could get Google Apps up and running faster and for less money.

Read more [here].