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What Are the Benefits of Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud?
Move your business to Microsoft 365 – the world’s most popular suite of productivity apps and cloud storage services.
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My team struggles to collaborate and work remotely.
My files are hard to manage and find.
Help your people do their best work with a cloud workspace that includes apps like Word, Excel and Outlook.
Store your files in the cloud for easy access anywhere in the world. Improve how your people work with features like versioning, audit trails, and conditional access.
Managing signatures shouldn’t be complicated. Simplify it with a centralised solution that keeps all your Outlook signatures consistent.
Unify your communications with an all-in-one chat, video, voice, and file-sharing platform.
Move your IT environment from Google Workspace or outdated legacy systems to Microsoft 365 – without losing data or functionality.
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Create and edit text documents online and offline.
Process data and set up easy-to-read spreadsheets.
Build slideshow presentations with a drag-and-drop interface.
Manage your email, calendar, tasks, and contacts in one place.
Chat, call, and share files with an all-in-one collaboration platform.
Save, access, edit, and share files and photos wherever you are.
Create sites to share files and collaborate with team members.
Send, receive and store emails in an email server that’s built to work with Outlook.
Create and edit professional-looking videos with easy-to-use tools.
Co-create with workspaces that bring all the parts of a project together.
Manage your staff’s 365 identities and access permission levels.
Coordinate your fleet of devices from one centralised location.
Protect your network against malware and other threats with a fully featured security solution.
Restrict access to sensitive information through classification, labelling, and protection.
Quickly search files and generate text to help you execute tasks faster.
Copilot is your virtual assistant – a secure chatbot that spans your entire Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Use it to easily reference Teams meetings and take notes with built-in recording, transcription and summary features.
Or find the exact information you need by searching all your files, chats and emails with plain-language prompts.
Or build a SharePoint agent to execute tasks using the information within a specific SharePoint site.
If your people work digitally, Copilot can help them do it faster and more accurately.
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Microsoft 365 and Office 365 are the same product suite. Office 365 was Microsoft’s old name for the collection of apps like Word, PowerPoint and Excel. You might still hear people talk about ‘Office 365’ when they’re referencing legacy desktop versions of those apps. Generally, though, all Office 365 products are now Microsoft 365 products.
Copilot is a chatbot that uses OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs). Unlike ChatGPT and other commercially available chatbots, it integrates natively with Microsoft 365. That means – if you have Copilot enabled – it can access all emails and calendars in Outlook and all files in SharePoint and OneDrive. It can also crawl the internet (retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)) to formulate up-to-date responses.
Microsoft 365 is almost always a better option for businesses that use Windows – especially if you want to focus on security best practices. The 365 stack has much better administrative and management tools, which makes it easier to run your IT as efficiently as possible. The apps themselves are generally more feature-rich – even Google Docs, for example, lacks basic functions that Microsoft Word includes (such as the ability to easily work offline).
Google also has an unpleasant habit of unexpectedly deprecating apps it no longer wants to support, which cause problems when that app happens to be critical to your business workflows. (Microsoft, on the other hand, has generally solid legacy support.)
Finally, most of your staff have probably spent their careers working with Microsoft apps. Trying to switch to Workspace – a new, unfamiliar ecosystem that struggles with many of the things Microsoft does well – doesn’t make financial or operational sense.
Microsoft 365 is, arguably, the most secure digital workspace in the world. Your data is protected to standards like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ISO 27018; it also won’t be shared or used by Microsoft without your consent.
You can even choose where you want to store your data. If you wanted to make sure its storage complied with Australian privacy laws, for example, you could nominate a data centre in Australia to host your 365 cloud.
Learn how cloud computing and Microsoft 365 can help you create a modernised workplace.
What Are the Benefits of Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud?