Microsoft Office 365 for medium-sized businesses

At the other end of the scale, more vendors are trying to tie up the small business market, offering incentives and deals for the little guys in the industry.

What about those in the medium level firms?

But what about those in the medium level firms? These companies are grown up enough to have some dedicated IT and innovation nous however lack the cash to splash on expensive licenses, or the time to waste on lengthy deployments.

Office 365 can help those businesses in the middle get everything they need, without squandering their much-needed hours and capital.

Medium business

To become a medium business, you have normally started at the smaller end and grown up to be bigger and better in your field. However with growth comes a lot of change and when it comes to IT, companies aren't always prepared.

With Office 365, these issues can get thrown out with the old software packaging. With prices starting at £6.50 per month per user for anything over 25 employees, the cost of getting everyone with the same software packages, including all the necessary classics - just as Exchange, Word, Excel and even Microsoft's VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service Lync - drops dramatically.

Also, with all of your data stored in the cloud, there is no need to buy new storage or servers to take care of the information once it's created. All your employees need is a working PC and Internet connection and they can create, edit and share online easily with software they are familiar with.

This is all great for the future or for a medium business just setting itself up, however what if you are then established and already have some of your own IT architecture on premise?

Your data is your intellectual property and is what allows you to run your business, standing out from your competition.

Microsoft had safety and security of your data in mind when building up this new service and employs the highest levels of security, both physically for its data centres and virtually across the networks and hardware.

How to run an email system

We know you guys know how to run an email system, nevertheless entrusting that to someone else could be the make or break of your business. Microsoft takes that responsibility very in all seriousness and guarantees uptime of 99.9 per cent per month, giving compensation if it falls below that agreed level.

On top of that, if anything does go wrong or you need help, Microsoft offers a support team which works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can contact them through the phone, over the web or on email and they will do their utmost to get you back up and running in the short run.

When Microsoft unveiled Office 365 last summer, it told the world medium businesses were their target and they wanted to get them on-board. Built with the midway enterprise in mind, Office 365 could give your business all you need when it comes to office software.