It’s hard to get used to new tools. But that isn’t a problem with Office 365, as it works with the programs you already know and use, including Outlook, Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Publisher, making the transition easier and faster for everyone in your company. These tools continue on providing the same great features you already rely on, plus the powerful capabilities available with Office 365. Besides, they’re automatically updated, reducing both the time spent and the money invested on upgrades and updates (time and money, the 2 golden words!)

Office 365 is easy to try, simple to set-up, intuitive to learn and straightforward to use. In fact, Office 365 administration is designed for organizations that have no IT staff or department, so any user with basic IT knowledge will easily set it up and use the intuitive features it provides. The online portal also provides a series of step-by-step instructions on how to perform most of the configurations, such as adding or removing users. Office 365 takes care of IT for you, so your services are always up and running. As a result, you focus on your business rather than on learning all the complex and never-ending tech jargon. Remember: you don’t need to be a geek to work as one!

Office 365 is all about teamwork. With Office 365, you can create a password-protected portal to share small or large, hard-to-email files both inside and outside of your company, from wherever you’re working, whenever you need to. That way, you’ll have all the latest versions of your files and documents in a single location, no matter how many people are working on them. With multi-party HD video conferences, screen sharing, shared calendars and team chat, you’ll always be in sync with your team. You can edit or review a document together with several people in real time, in a truly collaborative way, and take document collaboration to a whole new level! Your online collaborative meetings will just be a lot more productive… and a lot more fun! Go, team!

Office 365 offers a series of communication tools, ranging from corporate email and instant messaging to video conferencing via skype for business and even… social networking. That’s right! With Yammer, you have your own corporate social media. It allows both your employees, clients and partners to communicate in a more natural and familiar way, creating the right atmosphere for innovation. Besides, when you use Office 365, applications like email, calendar and contacts are all synchronized to work together in all your devices in real time. Have you just updated a contact on your phone? It will be automatically updated across all your devices. And shared calendars allow you to check if someone’s available at a certain time for a meeting. It’s one less thing to spend time asking!

Using the portfolio of tools available with Office 365 tells your customers and prospects that you’re serious about your business. It gives them the perception that your company is updated and has evolved to a point where infrastructure or email problems are no longer part of your day-to-day business. Office 365 also allows you to create a custom domain name (ex: xxxx@linkcom.pt), which further increases your brand recognition, and includes design tools (Sharepoint) for building professional websites. If you go into the market, just make sure you do it geeky style!

This one is a hell of a plus for small businesses, which run on smaller budgets. With Office 365, forget about upfront costs! Office 365 has a flexible monthly per user billing process that lets you add or remove users to best suit your growing business needs – of course, if you subscribe for a longer period, you’ll get a friendlier monthly price per user. Basically, you get pay-as-you-go pricing options that ensure cost predictability while helping you to meet your monthly budget, especially when getting started. Office 365 also offers great flexibility by allowing you to easily provide users only with the services they really need. It’s that simple: you can change plans at any time!

Thanks to 1TB of OneDrive online storage space and 50GB of email storage space per user, you’ll have plenty of space for all your information! You’ll be able not only to store all your information in the cloud, but also to access it whenever you need it, wherever you are. Office 365 is designed to deliver reliability, availability and performance with a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, financially-backed service level agreement (SLA). All your documents and applications, such as email, will always be available, no matter what happens.

Imagine losing your laptop or breaking it… Data security is one of the biggest concerns when it comes to business, but if you store all your data in the cloud, that’s no longer an issue. You always know where your data is and who has access to it and, most important, you know it’s safe. With Office 365, you can use the same systems used by Microsoft and other companies worldwide to help protect emails, documents and networks from unauthorised emails (spam) and malicious software (malware) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Those systems are certified to meet some of the most demanding industry-standard certifications, such as ISO 27001, EU Safe Harbor and HIPAA.

Did you know that, according to a study carried out by U.S. Institute for Business and Home Safety in 2015, 25% of small businesses do not reopen following a major disaster? If your in-house system crashes or your office building is destroyed by a fire or flood, your many years of work may be compromised and, ultimately, so your company. You can prevent this by having all your data in the cloud. Office 365 helps safeguard your critical data with geo-redundant reliability and enables disaster recovery with multiple datacenters. Let’s just hope your company never truly understands the importance of this!