How Office 365 is Driving Digital Transformation ?

1) Engage and Collaborate users :Easy collaboration and support of multiple device types are critical in today’s business environments. Every aspect of Office 365 is about sharing and collaborating, and every piece contributes to a more unified, informed, and connected group of users. Underlying services include SharePoint and OneDrive which support Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other tools. But the ability to share updates, request input, and track changes across different user domains on any device means there is a fluid, inclusive nature to how works gets done.

2) Connected platform : The ease of sharing among users is clearly one major advantage of Office 365, and because of the agile nature of the cloud, it uses an API framework for rapidly building connectivity among and between apps. Traditionally, this level of collaboration has required deployment and administration of multiple applications, all of which require integration plans and their own layer of security.

3) Scalable and cost-effective : Any organization Large, Mid and small can use Office 365 and grow with it as their needs change. For one thing, Microsoft makes adoption and management easy with a pay-as-you-go model that works for organizations of any size. Because it’s in the cloud and comes with APIs to connect with other applications, it can be adopted and customized to fit the infrastructure and business needs of any organization.

4) Comprehensive accessibility : Office 365 is designed to complement and support the efforts of today’s workforce, which now relies on accessibility beyond the corporate walls in order to get the job done. Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and others run on smartphones and devices; users can actually make inline changes and edits and collaborate real-time with other users. Skype and Outlook Groups are tools that give users the ability to connect, discuss, and create actionable changes to their work. This gives users near-universal accessibility to contribute irrespective of geographic location or device.

5) Customizable platform : Because it’s such a key driver of productivity, Office 365 is built to be broadly used across different applications. Organizations can create custom solutions that use data and functionality from Office 365 for their own specific needs. An API that is specifically designed to share data, email, calendaring information, contacts, files, and folders gives application developers the opportunity to connect data through apps using J-Query , JavaScript , CSOM, JSOM .NET, PHP, Java, Python, or Ruby on Rails for specific device or platforms.

One of the key features of the API is the access to reporting services that provide critical data to organizations about how data is being used and insights into user behavior. This information can be used to build smarter solutions that provide monitoring, analysis, and data visualizations.

Office 365 includes a number of productivity tools that business may never use, due to some valid reason or lack of understanding, but I would recommend to find the to use full potential of office 365 productivity tool if you have subscription.