those distinctions are blurring as the digital workplace connects disparate work environments.
In terms of technology, too, the old distinctions are beginning to crumble. Organizations used to provide different technology solutions for workers depending on their roles and physical locations, distinguishing between those who work at desks and those who work in the field, on the retail floor or on a manufacturing line.
But with Microsoft’s all-in-one productivity suite, Office 365, the same digital workplace experience is available to everyone in your organization, enabling effective communication, collaboration and culture delivery across your company.
The Office 365 productivity suite supports a variety of functions, whether you’re running a small businesses or an enterprise with over 10,000 employees. It allows all employees to accomplish tasks and work with files, coworkers and partners to move the business forward, remaining productive and effective regardless of geographical location and role.
Here are five examples of how this powerful platform could boost productivity across your enterprise:
- Human resources: Whether your HR department needs to collaborate on the upcoming year’s benefits package or communicate with employees about compensation and services, Office 365 provides the tools to collaborate across your group and deliver information to your user base.You could use a Yammer newsfeed to quickly address issues and answer questions about benefits enrollment, for example, or use SharePoint Online to create online forms and automate data on compliance.
- Marketing and sales: Marketing and sales professionals may find that SharePoint templates are an efficient way to start new documents as well as record and archive your business activities. For sales, specifically, combining visuals and data into a SharePoint dashboard helps support effective decision-making.
- Finance, accounting and legal: Office 365’s combination of SharePoint Online and cloud storage through OneDrive for Business helps you store business information while managing and processing a variety of data. And the robust enterprise search functionality makes finding that information faster and easier than before.
- IT support: Office 365 helps your organization’s IT team to collaborate and work together in providing services to users. SharePoint Online also helps to create sites, intake forms, collaboration areas and other self-service functions for the user base.
- Operations: For operations, corporate communication and the ability to leverage brand and culture are important functions. With Office 365, you’re able to create sites with a consistent look and feel, and extend that experience beyond the firewall in a secure network.
In today’s complex, data-driven enterprises, the productivity and profitability of your business depends on your employees’ ability to communicate, collaborate, produce content and share knowledge — regardless of whether they work at a desk, on the shop floor or remotely. Whether in your HR department or marketing and sales, legal, IT or operations, Office 365 gives you the tools your company needs to meet the technological challenges of moving all of your business activities forward in today’s digital workplace.
Learn more about helping your organization leverage today’s digital workplace capabilities by downloading our new white paper, “The Business Value Of Office 365 To The Enterprise”.
Contributor: Jill Hannemann, practice director for SharePoint Advisory Services at Portal Solutions
