Showing posts with label Office cloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Office cloud. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

SharePoint Online With Office 365 Benefits: Taking Your Business to Next Level

Advancement in technology has brought about a major change in the way of working of modern workforce. Statistics show that around 95% of information workers are using notebooks as well devices like iPad and smartphones for work. This is why today, several leading enterprise systems are being offered as Online systems and cloud computing is gaining momentum. Microsoft’s SharePoint, a part of Office 365 is undeniably one of the most powerful enterprise tools available for all business sizes.

Office 365, a suite of web-enabled (on the cloud) tools is the latest offering from Microsoft for Online system users. Microsoft products such as Office, Outlook, and SharePoint are widely used by small and medium sized businesses as well as big multinational corporations. If you are considering using a collaboration platform or planning to move your existing business to the cloud, there is no better office-productivity enterprise solution than Office 365.

Moving to a cloud based system seems to be an intelligent business decision considering the future trend. Microsoft has clearly anticipated the powerful role online systems will play in the near future. Flexibility along with reduced costs of management is one of the noteworthy features of SharePoint Online system introduced by Microsoft.

Office 365 is offered in two editions- Standard and Dedicated. Additionally, the Standard edition is offered in two versions- Plan S and Plan E. Both standard versions of Office 365 consist of SharePoint 2010, Lync 2010, and Exchange 2010. Subscription to these services is based on per-user or per month basis.

Let’s look at some benefits presented by Office 365 due to its access to SharePoint 2010 noteworthy features:

•Powerful search capabilities: SharePoint 2010 is known to have a good search engine, so searching for something in Office 365 is quick and easy.

•Optimum Security: SharePoint 2010 is known to offer superior user level security than other Microsoft products. This feature is extremely useful in an enterprise system where different users have access to read, write, and share data stored in the database. The security features included in SharePoint 2010 protects the confidentiality of the data without hampering the productivity and efficiency of the workforce, even in the cloud.


•Easy creation and collaborations: SharePoint 2010 allows easy creation of site and pages. Administrator can create a site to store documents and allow specific group of people, permission to work and collaborate on it.

•No coding to create workflow: An efficient workflow chart improves efficiency of workforce and enhances productivity. The SharePoint Designer allows creating of an efficient workflow in an easy way without use of any complex coding.

•Active directory: SharePoint allows the administrator to permit access to users by assigning username and passwords. If required external users may also be granted restricted access to the system resources by the administrator.

One of the biggest advantages of using Office 365 and its SharePoint cloud platform is smaller learning curve for people who are using Microsoft office products, as it is only transition to different working environment for such people.

Monday, 19 December 2011

Chile Continues Positioning As A Hot Destination For Outsourcing

Microsoft outsourcing
Last week Chile hosted the first LatamOutsourcing and Investment Forum.

Invited by Chilean Economic Development Agency(CORFO), more than 40 IT companies from 13 countries and mainly focused in global offshore outsourcing, shared experiences and learn about why to invest in building their development centers in thisexceptionalcountry.

During the 3-days Forum, foreign outsourcing companies met with Chilean Government stakeholders and key local players interested in helpingto place their branches in such hot business environment.

Forum focused in sharing key indicators and advantages of placing outsourcing destinations in Chile such as good indicators and top positions in recognized ranking related to political risks and corruption, outstanding economic environment (Government target is to place Chile into First World economies by 2020), timezone proximity for outsourcing services, trade agreements, Government support for investors and IT education. Chilean agency recognized the lack of English speakers developers but agreed to continue investing in such key element needed for the success of outsourcing services. Higher costs than other nearshore destinations like Uruguay is also a disadvantage Finally, different outsourcing companies already established in Chile, like TCS, showcased their success stories and things to consider when establishing here.

Forum was not restricted by company size or technology; everyone has the same benefits and support if choosing Chile as an offshore outsourcing platform. For instance UruIT, a Microsoft Gold partner from Uruguay specialized in providing outsourcing services for US companies from convenient nearshore locations on top of Microsoft products and technologies, was among the list of companies invited by CORFO. Local Microsoft branch continues growing as companies demonstrate huge investment capabilities in technology, in particular Microsoft related ones, becoming a very exciting market for Microsoft IT shops like UruIT, not only for outsourcing but also to provide services for local companies.

UruIT was hired by a leading global solutions provider of career development, mentoring and career transition to build their user-friendly SaaS solution. Our ongoing dedicated team includes web developers (ASP.NET), Support Engineers and QA.

This product development project represented a challenge because it required transitioning from an offshore development team in India.

With Microsoft outsourcing offices in US and development centers in Uruguay, UruIT is the leader in Chilie outsourcing nearshore software development company in South and Latin America.