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INTRODUCTION
Microsoft Office 365 is a commercial software plus services offering a set of products from Microsoft Corporation, with the initial plan including a Professional subscription (for organizations of 25 and smaller) and an Enterprise subscription (for organizations with more individuals). Office 365 was announced in the autumn of 2010, and was made available to the public on 28 June 2011. Office 365 includes the Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications and hosted versions of Microsofts products(including Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Lync Server), delivered and accessed over the Internet, in effect, the next version of Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). In December 2011, Microsoft launched Trust Center and announced that Office 365 now complies with EU privacy regulations. Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a metered service over a network (typically the Internet). Computing clouds provide computation, software, data access, and storage resources without requiring cloud users to know the location and other details of the computing infrastructure. Within limits, cloud users can consume any amount of these resources without having first to acquire servers or other computing equipment.

2. WHAT IS OFFICE 365?

MS Office 365 is a service which offers access to various services and software built around the Microsoft Office platform.Its familiar Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. Everyone can work together easily with anywhere access to email, web conferencing, documents, and calendars. It includes businessclass security and is backed by Microsoft. Whether you are a small business or multinational enterprise, Office 365 offers plans designed to fit your organization's unique needs. Learn more today. Office 365 delivers user productivity you can count on

Virtually anywhere-access* to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars on nearly any device (including PC, Mac, Windows Phone, iPhone, Android phones, Symbian phones, and BlackBerry**).

Office 365 works with the software your users already know and use like Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.

2.1 WORK FROM ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME VIRTUALLY We can Access email, calendars, and contacts across PCs, the web and mobile phones. Work from almost anywhere and get automatically updated email, calendar, and contacts on the devices you use most, including PCs, Macintosh computers, iPhone, Android phones, Symbian phones, BlackBerry Smartphones, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phones.

3. OFFICE 365 SERVICES

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The Office 365 services offering gives your business the powerful productivity capabilities of SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online, as well as Office Professional Plus and Office Web Apps making it easier for your people to quickly and cost effectively access up-to-date collaboration, communication, and productivity services. 3.1 SHAREPOINT ONLINE SharePoint Online provides a single, integrated location in the cloud where your people can easily collaborate with team members to share ideas and expertise, build custom team and project sites and solutions, find organizational resources, or search for information. People can also invite external users to view, share, and collaborate on extranet site collections. SharePoint Online Features 1) User Interface Complete tasks more quickly with contextual and customizable menus from Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and ribbon technology. More easily customize sites with Web Edit features that help you quickly edit page text and media in the browser. 2) Search Support multiple types of searches, including contextual search, phonetic search, and people and expertise search. 3) Mobile Capitalize on low-cost subscription plans for Office 365 that benefit companies with workers who do not have dedicated PCs access SharePoint Online sites and documents on mobile devices (including web-enabled mobile devices) using a simplified, text-only format. 3.2 EXCHANGE ONLINE Exchange Online provides rich, familiar, and more secure access to email, calendar, contacts, and tasks across PCs, the web, and mobile devices. It delivers the robust capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server as a cloud-based service. Exchange Online greatly simplifies IT management and provides advanced security and reliability features.

Exchange online features & Benefits 1) Access Exchange Online

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Access email from almost anywhere through a web browser using Outlook Web App. Use Microsoft Office Outlook for a rich client experience and offline access to your mailbox. Access email, calendar, contacts, and tasks through Exchange ActiveSync. 2) Email & contacts Enjoy 25 gigabytes (GB) of mailbox storage space per user and send messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. 3) Voicemail Take advantage of hosted Unified Messaging services that provide call answering (voicemail), dial-in user interface (Outlook Voice Access), and company automated attendant capabilities. 4) Security Help protect your inbox from malicious software and spam in incoming, outgoing, and internal messages with Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange. 3.3 LYNC ONLINE Lync Online provides your people with next-generation communications capabilities, including presence, IM, and PC-to-PC audio and video calling. Lync Online provides enterprise-class communications features that can improve the productivity of your people. Lync features & Benefits
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Instant Messaging (IM) Send an IM to anyone in your organization or any federated organization youre connected to.

2) Meetings

Easily invite others to spontaneous meetings that use voice and video with the Meet Now capability. People who do not subscribe to Office 365 can join meetings using the free Lync Web App. Record meetings on your workstation.
3) Share Desktop

Share your desktop with others using the built-in Meetings capability of Lync. Review documents, instruct others, or troubleshoot remote problems.
4) Internet Access

Connect to others in your organization or federated connections over the Internet without first using a VPN to connect to your company network.

Fig 3.1 LYNC Online

4. OFFICE WEB APPS

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Office Web Apps is the online companion to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote applications that helps your people access documents from almost anywhere. People can view, share, and work on documents online with others across PCs, mobile devices, and the web. 4.1 COMPARISON OF GOOGLE DOCUMENT WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 1. User Interface and Visibility As far as the user interface is concerned then Google documents has a very nice user interface, as it has keeping all things and tools so simple and basic for the users which provide them with simplicity and ease of use of the products using the Google Integrated environment which has consist of the so many tools and utilities but that too are simple to operate and does not require any complex work to do and whereas the Microsoft is also claming the same sort of user interface which is easier for the user to work with, but with some capability and additional tools in comparison with the Google Documents, the best thing which has made the it different in user interface is Ribbon feature which includes the addition of the extra package that is email sending by directly connect the email option with the online web applications along with the high storage capability and high formatting tools for the documents and files while editing of the documents is also carried out at fast pace with the high switching speed from one browser to another. 2. Presentations of the documents The Presentations of both Google Documents and Microsoft Office 365 have looks good and provide the online editing and Microsoft has faster pace of editing online documents and provide the Microsoft PowerPoint web applications which let you know to pick the themes and edit the page layout with the slides addition and removal with the addition of text and animations features too for the full screen presentations using the Google with the full screen view by allowing the instant share of presentations online using the Google network which allows you to share the browser and to connect it with anyone with the Google account and the Microsoft connection linking is not there but only have presentation slides with the communicator features which allows the instant messaging but it will not be implemented using the Microsoft Lync.

3. Sharing and collaboration

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The Google has the strong sharing and collaboration of the real time collaboration with in the web browser that has added the functionality and sharing anyone with anyone can be taken in Google Document and the answer of it is again comes from strong Google network that Google has and in case of the Microsoft, the share point service is there with the windows live site that can be share with the document within the browser from the desktop version with in the private network using the world wide web. 4. Word Processing capability The Microsoft has the strong powerful world processor which is known with the name of the Microsoft word because of the high ease of operations and compatibility of it with most of the applications and less complex it is work with, so the Google documents will working into it to improve its feature and finally the word has made easy for the Microsoft to gain a high hand over the Google documents, by allowing the easier creation of the tables with the spell check features that can be implemented as the main tool for the document editing because auto-correct the spell mistake automatically. Microsoft is declared as the outstanding because we all are well aware with the fact that how much popular Microsoft word is? And no one has the that kind of fast processing tools which removes the errors fast and keep your document up to date with the online editing too. 5. Spreadsheets and calculations The Microsoft Office 365 provide the spreadsheets according to which we can make use of the macros, formulas, cells and rows by providing the Microsoft Excel for the Web applications that will authorize as the same Excel formulas using the desktop version which will reduce the complexity and simplify the online sharing for excel documents that allows to carry the easy calculations online using the publishment of blogs and websites.

5. ADVANTAGES
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Security Microsofts online services have been designed with security in mind. Office 365 applications are accessed through 128-bit SSL/TSL encryption so that if a transmission is intercepted by someone without authorization, they wont be able to read it. Reliability Microsoft has multiple datacenters, located all over the world, hosting redundant network architecture. If there is an outage at one datacenter, another can act as a backup. Customers hosted by the first datacenter are transferred to another, with as little service interruption as possible. Compatibility In todays economy, many companies cant upgrade all of their desktop systems to the latest operating system. Thats not necessary to use Office 365. Microsoft Online Services supports not only Windows 7 and Vista (SP2), but also Windows XP SP3. Compliance Compliance with government and industry regulations is a big deal in todays business world. Microsoft Office 365 services have been certified as compliant with ISO 27001 standards, completed SAS70 Type I and II audits, and achieved the EU Safe Harbor seal. Microsoft has also added controls for helping customers comply with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). Up-to-date versions With Office 365, companies and their users get all the features and functionality of the very latest versions of Microsofts server products. The services run on Exchange 2010 SP1, SharePoint 2010, and Lync. Client software is Microsoft Lync 2010 for Windows (Communicator for Mac), and the enterprise edition includes the licensing for Office 2010 Professional Plus.

CONCLUSION

With Office 365, you can take advantage of sophisticated collaboration and messaging capabilities without the operational burden of on- premises server software. Office 365 keeps you in control and provides business-class reliability, high availability; comprehensive security, simplified management, and familiar user interface so that you can confidently choose it as your collaboration and communication solution. Office 365 is Microsofts smart and simple answer to cloud computing. Using the various programs in Office 365, you can do all the tasks youre used to doing in your favorite Office applications write documents, create presentations, check email, manage your calendar, crunch numbers, and more and then share what you create in real time on a team site, design and publish a website, and even create and host live online meetings while youre traveling on the train, sitting in a coffee shop, or dialing in on your phone.

REFERENCES
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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_365 2. http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/office365/online-software.aspx 3. http://shritech.sharepoint.com/Pages/default.aspx

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