Locatech – SharePoint & Office365

With Office 365 offers Microsoft its customers a – compared to the previous license jungle – very simple subscription model (per user per month) on, with nearly all Office functions hosted cloud platform by Microsoft on the desktop, as well as a can be used. This aimed Microsoft Office 365 both small and medium-sized companies as well as corporations and large organizations.

Office 365 has essentially

• the access to Email, Documents, Central contacts and calendar functions almost independently of the device (PC, Mobile, Tablet...
• the simple, protected information sharing for the cooperation with other employees, Customers and partners
• Microsoft Office for the desktop in combination with Web applications
• According to the plan (see below) a simple community support or a comprehensive IT support around the clock
• Data center operations with 99.9% Availability, geographically distributed redundancy of data centers and other safety features
• Functions for enterprise portals, Extranets, Websites, Instant Messaging, Video- and Web conferencing

The costs flat only depend on the number of users and will be charged monthly. In Office 365 are the following products included

• Microsoft Office Professional plus + Office Web apps integrated
• Exchange online
• SharePoint online
• Lync online

Usage scenario 1: Office 365 for small organizations (up to a maximum 50 User)

Organisations/companies with maximum 50 Paying users and very limited own IT infrastructure $5.25 per user per month.

For this you will receive:

• Office Web apps
• Exchange online e-mail, Mobile Access, Calendar, Contacts , Anti virus, Anti-spam
• SharePoint online for team sites, Access database services and simple public Web sites
• Lync online for instant messaging and online meetings
• Support only via moderated Internet forums

Usage scenario 2: Office 365 for larger companies and organizations

Here, there are a number of 'Plans' for different usage scenarios. All a high uptime guarantee is shared by 99,9 % for the IT infrastructure and IT support via phone/Web/E-Mail, reasonably large mail boxes (25 GB), Active Directory use, the latest version of Office Professional plus in combination with the Office Web apps, Anti virus- and anti spam protection, Instant Messaging, Online meetings, Video conferences, SharePoint team sites.

Organisations or companies, that previously used the online services from Microsoft and the Office Professional plus as desktop software with all available features of Exchange, Combine SharePoint and Lync online, pay €22.75 per user per month.

Free test: Can be quickly and easily for a free trial of Office365 unlock.

• Here is your invitation link.

More information to Office365 can be found here.

Conclusion

This will be exciting. Raises but real pounds behind Microsoft, to at the Cloud computing his claims to unplug and take the wind out of the sails in particular the Google Apps. The combination of Office software for the desktop and the new cloud services Microsoft is trying, Cash cows “Office” as a hosted solution to make the money ass. And for those companies, that is still not their entire IT infrastructure in the cloud would shift (and most of these are currently) is the perfect cloud gateway drug available with the combination of Office desktop and Office/Web.

Tonight it was announced big news of Facebook, that should revolutionize the way of communicating between people. Now already use 350 Millions of users the news features from Facebook, and more than 4 Billion messages are exchanged daily between "Friends" on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg was Facebook's vision of a “modern” Messaging system before, with the following features:

• An integrated system – includes not only Email, but also SMS or chat. Email is a way of communicating, but it is just one among all other types of communication. (Telephony/Voice over IP should not be integrated in the foreseeable)
• Informal – more a conversation as an official correspondence.
• Immediately – immediate notification and direct communication
• Personal/personal – the person is in the foreground, not the single message
• Easy to use
• Compact – Less features than email today
• Short messages

Relationship of memory

A highlight is certainly the complete history of entertainment, the entire Exchange of messages was maintained, as a kind of “Relationship history” or the modern form of the shoe boxes, old letters stored in the. The focus is on communication between 2 Persons or within a particular group.

Who sees his classic email inbox, sees a flood of messages, important times, unimportant times, times with annex, times without. The unit of exchange of information is Message. This unit varies with the Facebook messaging system in Person. It's always about the entire communication, No matter which way, between People.Here acts in the so-called “social Inbox” (Social Inbox) the personal social network of the user as more meaningful automatic filter. In the “social Inbox” – the man, perhaps with “universal personal communications Exchange storage” could rewrite, land as a preset messages only from friends and their friends. Whether this will also “social spam messages” lead to, It remains to be seen. All other messages are in a folder “Messages” filed and can be viewed there from time to time.

Anyone can in the future – Optional – also an E-Mail address on Facebook to receive under name@Facebook.com. Facebook employees give their previous E-mail addresses and receive Mitarbeiter@FB.com.The rollout stages via invitations in the next few months.

Microsoft Office Web apps

Texpress the new messaging platform is the Microsoft Office Web apps be, Another advantage for Microsoft in its cloud strategy, in particular also with regard to Office 365, of Microsoft's new cloud offerings.

An initial analysis

Tempting thought, to handle his personal communications via Facebook. And the integration of “Classic” Other contacts must be also not immediately a Facebook member email recipients, a crucial hurdle of the previously closed messaging system, Overcome them should contribute to the success of Facebook.

The communication knows no “Forget”. It may be advantageous, to be able to understand a complete history of Exchange with a person, but there is no mechanism, once said/written to automatically destroy. In a normal chat, also the content of entertainment is completed with the end of the conversation, what contributes to an open Exchange. Although it is possible also in email, the Exchange trace many years, If you deliberately picks up emails, but on Facebook, it will be much easier, Statements a person to rummage out. Just think of insults exchanged in the heat of battle or allegations, They then formed. even later still legally could be recycled.

Facebook-messaging a bit reminiscent of Google wave – that previously prevailed in any way. On Facebook, it could work but – After all there is reached the critical mass necessary electronically networked people even before the start.

Facebook is suitable also for internal corporate communication?

Facebook also suitable for internal corporate communication? Groups protected by setting now possible in principle already. Before but confidential business communications in the “Facebook-cloud” shifting is, must certainly have a lot of homework with regard to privacy be made on Facebook. Who wants to read advertising by the competitors already on the right side of his Facebook inbox, When he discussed just about a product.

The development is exciting. But the success is related to the protection of privacy and the data exchanged and fall, a domain, in the Facebook so far not too positive about talk has made.

As most 19.10.2010 announced, offers Microsoft a combination of its main products Microsoft Office Professional plus, Exchange online, SharePoint online and Lync online (formerly Office Communications Server) in the form of cloud services online at (See also http://www.locatech-it.com/technologien-plattformen/sharepoint/office-365-fakten-preise-cloud-computing/and http://www.locatech-it.com/technologien-plattformen/sharepoint/office-365-%e2%80%93-microsoft-setzt-alles-auf-die-wolke/)

For companies There are (still in a beta version) corresponding Planungsleitfäden in German see

• http://office.microsoft.com/redir/HA101988914.aspx (for small businesses) and http://office.microsoft.com/redir/HA101988931.aspx (for larger businesses).

Also the help pages newly released under http://office.microsoft.com/redir/CL101870908.aspx (small businesses) and http://office.microsoft.com/redir/HA101988931.aspx (larger companies) offer a first introduction to the issues, arising with the use of the online services.

Microsoft has a new product: Office 365! Or is it rather a service? Or a cloud offering? The first impression: It is composed of all, a goose for “We work together, always and everywhere”. Office 365 replaces the previous Microsoft cloud services (BPOS – business productivity online standard suite) and connects the Office standard software for the desktop with the Office Web apps, Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Lync, the successor of the Office Communication Server.

Combines desktop and cloud

With the new product/service/cloud offering, Microsoft wants to “the rules of the game change”, such as companies and working together. It shows on every case Microsoft's commitment to the cloud, and the combined offer from Office/desktop plus Web service to the breakthrough finally at the Cloud computing bring. Once again, Microsoft uses as its competitor Office, to position itself against the competition. Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Office Division, put it this way:

When it comes to the cloud, We are all in, and we are bringing our very best with US – the very best applications and the very best partners

Cloud computing, we put everything on one card, and that includes also the best, What we have - the best applications and the best partner.

Office is available to all 365 only in the coming year, a beta program launches among other places in Germany already at 19. October.

We hope, that with the new product/service the licensing / rental options easier, more transparent and just be also convenient for medium-sized companies, and are looking forward to the next steps.

More info here:

• Prices and facts: http://office365.microsoft.com/uploadedFiles/Office365FactSheet.docx 
• Official Web page: http://office365.com/
• Twitter channel: http://twitter.com/#!/office365

And a preview, looks like the whole (in English) here: http://office365.microsoft.com/en-US/online-services.aspx