SADA says "Hello!" to new Microsoft Office 365

As part of their continual investment to the cloud, Microsoft has released the next generation of its Online Productivity suite, Microsoft Office 365, bringing together the latest versions of its cloud and desktop line of products for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Microsoft Office 365 includes:

• Office Professional Plus
• Exchange Online
• SharePoint Online
• Lync Online

Everything works together seamlessly with Office 365! Your office tools software will be available on the desktop as well as the cloud meaning that you will never lose a day of productivity. Bring the next generation of document sharing and collaboration to your office with the security features you’ve come to trust with the help of a seasoned Certified Microsoft Partner. Office 365 is automatically upgraded with each new production release.

As a Gold Certified Partner and seasoned Microsoft solutions provider, SADA knows that this means that business already in the Microsoft cloud or looking at cloud services options get a more unified and streamlined experience. Existing Microsoft Online (BPOS, Live@edu) customers will be able to transition to Office 365 over the course of the year after global availability.

Be sure to check out our Office 365 success stories (formerly BPOS and Live@edu success stories) on our blog to learn more about how we help organizations move forward. Or up, rather. Like Microsoft, “ We’re all in!”

SharePoint added to Microsoft Live@edu!

Great new addition to Microsoft's Live@edu offering for students, from the Education Insights blog:

We are also announcing new SharePoint Online-based collaboration and productivity services will be available for students as part of the Live@edu next year. These new SharePoint-based services will offer IT departments more flexibility and control to set up and manage their school’s collaboration and productivity tools in a security-enhanced environment…as well as the ability to access and manage permissions to sites, documents and content (pictures, videos) with enterprise-class control.

For students, these new services give them access to similar types of functionality that has made SharePoint the fastest growing server product in Microsoft history. It will enable them to create, edit and securely access content from their school’s site anywhere, whether at home, at the school library or even while on the road for holiday. It will allow them to organize, track and easily share classroom information, interests, expertise and easily find colleagues. By leveraging Office Web Apps that are currently in technical preview, students will have a new online space where they can securely upload, easily share, and collaborate on documents, including in-place editing. We believe this will better prepare them for the workforce through use of functionality and technology used every day in the workplace.

Microsoft’s software plus services model—which spans mission-critical datacenter availability and security, Live@edu, Microsoft Online Services collaboration and communication offerings, and Windows Azure—combines the reach and flexibility of the cloud with the power of on-premises software applications. Today, we see that people want to access information on the PC, in the browser and on a mobile device…and I think this the real value in moving to the cloud…having the flexibility and choice to run your solutions either in the cloud, on premises, or a mix of the two.

For more information on getting started with Live@edu, please click here or call 866-997-0000, option 3.