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Office 365 Business PRODUCT SHEET Update: 01.12.2016 Version 1.00

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1. Solutions benefits

1.1. For the customer

1.1.1. General benefits

Office 365 Business is a bundle of cloud services by Microsoft aimed at the small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer. It makes the most popular Microsoft productivity products available in one package at an attractive price. Office 365 Business is hosted by Microsoft in a European datacenter and offers both online and offline tools in three different packages.

These bundles of productivity applications provide businesses with two important capabilities: mobility and flexibility. All Microsoft business services are centralized and available through a simple per user/per month model that allows changes at any time.

1.1.2. Office 365 Business Features

§ Email, Calendar and Contacts (Hosted Exchange) § Cloud Storage (OneDrive for Business) § Office Online (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook

Webmail) § Desktop versions of Office Applications for PC/Mac § Online meetings (Skype for Business) § Corporate social network (Yammer)

The three flavors of Office 365 Business are: • Office 365 Business - Aimed at users who are looking for the

traditional office applications such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel (online and offline). This means they can download and install the desktop version of the software or use the online version as well as store and access all of their documents directly in the cloud.

• Office 365 Business Essentials - Aimed at users who are looking for email, calendar and contact management and who only need the online versions (browser-based) of the Office applications.

• Office 365 Business Premium – This full suite of products combines email, calendar and contact management with online and offline Office applications.


1.1.3. Office 365 benefits; the end-user’s perspective

Office 365 is an all-in-one package for SMBs and features:

• Administrator and end-user self-service portal • Centralized one-click access to applications • Complete catalogue of business apps and add-ons

With Office 365, SMBs get full access to their email, agenda, contacts, task lists and documents, all from one hosted cloud desktop regardless of location. The Office 365 suite can be accessed with any normal internet browser and does not require additional software to be installed. It integrates easily with all smartphones and tablets.

Office 365 provides a flexible time-saving online work space that enables better productivity.

1.2. For the sales partner

1.2.1. General information

Office 365 is a collection of cloud services allowing telecom operators, service providers and value-added resellers to offer industry standard productivity tools with applications such as Microsoft Office Online (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook), Hosted Exchange and cloud storage at a competitive price.

Office 365 is hosted and managed by Microsoft and ensures that your customer always has access to the latest versions. In general Microsoft launches the newest versions of its popular software first on the Office 365 platform before making it available to anyone else.

Office 365 offers an incredible range of add-on products that can be connected to the Office 365 environment, ranging from backup solutions to security and brand management tools.


1.2.2. Office 365 is the ultimate reseller’s opportunity With Office 365, sales partners:

• Retain full customer ownership • Benefit from a higher margin in a secure environment • Have access to an end-to-end billing solution with automated

ordering, provisioning and billing • CSL API (Cloud Service Layer Application Programmable

Interface) access for automated ordering and billing

1.2.3. Target market and potential customers The target market for Office 365 includes small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and small office/home office (SOHO). With tools for flexible business modeling, sales partners can offer a broad range of services, from basic email to higher value services such as providing additional storage, web hosting, backup, anti-spam, web conferencing, email marketing, etc.



The ideal Office 365 customer profile

• Is usually a decentralized business with between 5-300

employees with multiple offices, home offices and traveling sales staff

• Is looking for a flexible online work space • Is committed to a subscription-based pricing model • Prefers to pay monthly or annually • Aspires to strong customer support on cloud services and

knowledge of security • Prefers the added value of a real partnership and advice

(not just a vendor relationship)

1.3. Technical specifications

Office 365

Initial number of users 1 Exchange Online

Mailbox size 50 GB per user Message size Messages up to 150 MB

Company disclaimers Unlimited Contacts Unlimited

Distribution lists Unlimited Email domains Unlimited

Anti-spam/Anti-virus Provided by Microsoft

Exchange Online

ActiveSync Access Yes IMAP4, POP3 Yes

Outlook web access Yes Office Outlook client Included

OneDrive for Business Size limit for syncing files 10-gigabyte (GB) file size limit File storage and sharing 1 TB per subscribed user

Office Online Word Online Yes Excel Online Yes

PowerPoint Online Yes OneNote Online Yes

SharePoint Online (Business Essentials and Business Premium) Storage per user (contributes

to total storage base of the entire SharePoint

environment or tenant)

0.5 GB per subscribed user

Storage base per tenant 1 TB + 0.5 GB per subscribed user + additional storage purchaser

List view threshold limit in site libraries 5000 max items per view

File upload limit 10 GB per file. In classic mode,

upload methods other than drag and drop have a 2 GB limit.