Economy - Moving data to the Cloud reduces operational costs for managing mail servers, which frees up out limited resources in ITS to focus on more campus and departmentally-specific projects.Office 365 provides state of the art features for staff, faculty and students to improve productivity and academic success. Logging in to the Office 365 portal, users have access to Office applications including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Yammer, Skype for Business (Lync) and OneDrive for Business. For end users, the advantage is the ability to access Office 365 offerings using any device, anywhere with an Internet connection. The advantage of the Microsoft Office 365 suite is that the cloud service is provided by Microsoft and thus eliminates a company’s IT maintenance tasks, such as patching, and infrastructure support costs.

This online service is subscription-based and includes Office, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business (Lync) Online and Microsoft Office Web Apps. The Microsoft Office 365 suite is a hosted, online version of the traditional installed version of Microsoft Office software.

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