Quick Wins with Office Ways Cloud Productivity Puts Your Company on the Fast Track to ROI

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1 Quick Wins with Office Ways Cloud Productivity Puts Your Company on the Fast Track to ROI

2 In today s on-demand economy, speed and flexibility are critical. The modern workforce uses multiple devices, expecting them to work seamlessly from any location, at any time. They want to communicate in real time and must have easy access to the data and productivity tools they need to do their jobs well. Office 365 harnesses the power of the cloud to improve the capabilities of the familiar Microsoft Office suite to meet these expectations. It s a robust productivity toolbox that helps companies transform the way they engage, serve and sell to customers. The ROI of Office 365 moves just as quickly as today s businesses do. Read on for three ways Office 365 can drive quick business benefit. Work together Work smarter Work faster 2

3 Heading to the Cloud With a blend of cost-effective scalable IT solutions and powerful productivity tools, the cloud has become an ideal solution for fastpaced, growing businesses. IT Today, 70% of enterprises have at least one application in the cloud.¹ 62% of businesses plan to run 100% of their information technology in the cloud by 2022.² 3

4 Why Companies Are Moving to the Cloud Business Impact: Productivity Impact: Lower total cost of ownership 42% Enable business continuity 33% Replacing on-premises legacy IT 35% Improve customer support 27% Increase speed of development 32% Enable innovation 22% Savings on capital expenditures 27% Enabling digital business transformation³ 20% Improve security 22% 4

5 Quick Win #1 Work Together Your greatest asset is your workforce. Bringing them together in the cloud makes them truly productive, inspiring their brightest ideas and best performance. Top technologies used to collaborate in the workplace: Chat or text 51% Modern cloud productivity apps make collaboration more effective and seamless, regardless of where employees may be located. Office 365 delivers an integrated experience that helps teams collaborate and communicate. Tools like group and chat, real-time co-authoring, online meetings and one-click file-sharing make working together easier. Online meetings Corporate intranet or SharePoint⁴ 50% 41% 5

6 Office 365 Collaboration Toolbox SharePoint Online: Employees can easily create team sites and portals to discover, share and collaborate on content with colleagues inside and outside their organization, and from any device. Outlook: With Outlook Groups, teams can share a group inbox and calendar and easily onboard new team members with a full group history. Yammer: This social network built for work lets employees crowdsource ideas and best practices, tap into the collective knowledge of the organization, and foster open discussions across groups and departments. Skype for Business: Employees can connect with their teams, customers or contractors nearly any time, anywhere via calling, conferencing, video and sharing capabilities from Skype for Business. Microsoft Teams: This new chat-based workspace brings together people, conversations and content, supporting persistent and threaded chats, and private messaging. Skype is deeply integrated for easy meetings that are linked to the team workspace. 6

7 Quick Win #2 Work Smarter To compete in today s business environment, companies need tools to help employees make smart decisions based on real-time data. 91% of CIOs, IT managers and developers agree that real-time data analysis can impact their company s bottom line.⁵ and analyze data with the easy-to-use dashboards and compelling visualizations of Power BI. Employees and organizations can use big data and behavioral analytics from Microsoft MyAnalytics to be more effective. According to one composite case study by Forrester, potential bottom-line benefits for an Office 365 adoption for 2,500 employees include: $3.25M 8.5% The business-intelligence tools of Office 365 help businesses work smarter. Businesses can monitor in production opportunities from better and faster access to the right information decrease in time to make decisions⁶ 7

8 Quick Win #3 Work Faster Office 365 makes critical information easier to find, saving time previously wasted on frustrating searches or inaccessible files. Employees can access synced files on multiple devices via OneDrive for Business without worrying about version control, search for information across the Office 365 ecosystem, and share files with one click. Office 365 guarantees 99.9% uptime. 7 According to the composite case study by Forrester, time-saving potential with Office 365 includes: An overall savings of 30 minutes per day per user IT departments save time and avoid problems with the advanced compliance and security features of Office 365 and its guarantee of 99.9% uptime. With these tools, your teams can work more efficiently, reclaiming valuable time. Road warrior employees save one hour per day 10.7% reduction in ediscovery efforts⁸ 8

9 The Bottom Line: The ROI of Cloud Productivity As business changes, so must business tools. By allowing employees to work together faster, smarter and better, Office 365 provides companies with the productivity toolbox they need to succeed. Office 365 ROI benefits: With easy access to information, and real-time communication and collaboration tools that are already familiar to employees, Office 365 makes work easier. The result is quick payback and value that affects not just employee morale and productivity, but your bottom line. 162% three-year, risk-adjusted ROI 7-month payback $1,348 three-year, risk-adjusted net present value (NPV) per user⁹ 9

10 See what Office 365 can do for your organization. Sign up for a free trial today. Sources ¹IDG Enterprise, Cloud Computing Survey, 2016, Nov 1, ²Better Cloud Monitor, Trends in Cloud IT: Dissecting Adoption Across Thousands of Organizations, June 11, ³IDG Enterprise, Cloud Computing Survey, 2016, Nov 1, 2016 ⁴Dimensional Research, Collaboration Trends and Technology: A Survey of Knowledge Workers, August ⁵VoltDM, 2016 Real-time Data Report. ⁶Microsoft, Office 365 TEI Study from Forrester, March ⁷Microsoft, Office 365 Trust Center. ⁸Microsoft, Office 365 TEI Study from Forrester, March ⁹Ibid Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document is provided as-is. Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. This document does not provide you with any legal rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft product. You may copy and use this document for your internal, reference purposes. 10