Project Leadership Associates Microsoft Office 365: An Analysis for the Legal Community
Communication & Collaboration Solution Group Leader Ryan Williams rwilliams@projectleadership.net Office: 312.258.5312
10 billion Internet connected devices by 2016 1billion+ people use social media services today 30% of data will live in or pass through the cloud by 2020.
Latest productivity services running in Microsoft s cloud
Visio Pro CONTROL AND EFFICIENCY Single user interface to purchase, administer, and user with Role Based Access Control Single sign-on with on-premises Active Directory 99.9% financially backed SLA 24x7 IT pro support Built in geo-redundancy in regional data centers
Is it reliable and safe? With Office 365, Exchange Online mailboxes let your lawyers access email securely from anywhere, at any time, while Forefront Online Protection for Exchange protects users from spam and viruses. Microsoft Outlook 2010 is also compatible with client and case management solutions like Credenza, made by Credenza Software, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, allowing law firms using Office 365 to access case information reliably even when working offline. Office 365 makes use of a secure hosting facility, a SAS 70 Type II Compliant data centre with bank level security. Being an Office 365 partner means getting world-class data protection and recovery, and your law firm can be assured of high availability with Office 365 s financially-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee. Will it help the firm collaborate? Through the use of Lync Online for IM, audio & video conferencing, depositions with Skype users. The firms users can backup and share information with anyone anywhere through the use of Skydrive Pro. Will it save the firm money? Office 365 lets you get started for a fraction of what you would pay with traditional licenses: You can download Office 365 to all the devices you need for one low monthly price. And because the IT infrastructure, email hosting, site hosting and dedicated IP address are all provided with Office 365, you ll cut out the third party and enjoy reduced IT costs. In addition, Microsoft provides online and phone hotline technical support, so Office 365 lets you save on in-house IT support costs.
City picks Microsoft over Google for email, desktop apps Crain s Chicago Business, 1.3.2013 (http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130103/news08/130109935/city-picks-microsoft-over-googlefor-email-desktop-apps)
Hybrid On Premises Online Best experience across devices Cloud on your terms Messaging Voice & Video Content Management Enterprise Social Reporting & Analytics Integrated best-of-breed solutions
Deep Experience Secure Development Lifecycle 5 Layers of Security Proactive Monitoring Access Restriction Data replicated in geo-redundant datacenters to protect against datacenter wide failures Backed by a 99.9% financially backed Service Level Agreement "The robust security and reliability that Microsoft was providing with Office 365 was essential we would not have agreed to a hosted solution without making sure that the State s data would be secure. Tarek Tomes, Assistant Commissioner (OET), State of Minnesota
Office 365 does not build advertising products out of customer data Consumer and corporate data is physically isolated Customers can remove their data whenever they choose to http://www.microsoft.com/enus/office365/privacy.aspx
Microsoft: Unmatched in the Cloud years in consumer and >15 business services 200+ services, delivered 24x7 Certifications FISMA certified EU Model Clauses SAS 70/SSAE 16 ISO 27001 compliant 30k engineers involved in cloud-based activities $2.3B invested in cloud infrastructure Security Highly secure, compliant infrastructure 14
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