Microsoft’s recognized Office 365 cloud-based service is a game-changer for businesses.
Article Summary
- Obsolete workstations – decommissioning is easy
- On-boarding – adding new users is a breeze
- Costs are transparent – with an old per-machine approach, it was easy to overlook some licenses over time.
Not too many years ago, companies had to purchase licenses out of the box and physically install Microsoft Office software on workstations. Now, it’s much easier to simply log on and subscribe Microsoft office 365 services over the Internet, and ? Provisioning systems dynamically is now much easier to perform.Here are some of the major benefits the office managers have found in utilizing an Office 365 model.
Decommissioning Workstations
Suppose existing employees leave for sunnier vistas, or the company has to transfer or downsize employees. In this case, it used to be somewhat costly and time consuming to decommission an individual employee’s workspace. The company had to physically uninstall software or contact the service provider to cancel a license and then decide what to do with the workstation.
Now, with Office 365, obsolete workstations can be decommissioned with the click of a button. Online transfer systems and on-demand cloud services have led to a much more agile approach to staffing and supplying employees with the software that they need to do their jobs. That alone is saving companies thousands of dollars in human resources labor and oversight costs, on unnecessary license subscription fees.
In addition, even projects that former employees were working on are much easier to transition or decommission as needed. For example, suppose an employee was instrumental in making innovative changes to an intranet over Office 365, where hosting and domains and everything else are coalesced and streamlined by the cloud model. Making those difficult transitions gets a lot easier, because Sharepoint and associated structures are “open and interoperable” in the right ways.
On-Boarding
By the same token, with an Office 365 approach, it’s easy for companies to grow and scale.
In the old business world, the idea of adding workers to scale up operations involved some significant inves