Important Info
Microsoft® Lync™ Online is a next-generation cloud communications service that connects people in new ways, anytime, from virtually anywhere. Transform your interactions with colleagues, customers and partners from today’s hit-and-miss communication to a more collaborative, engaging, and effective experience.
Enhanced User Productivity
Collaborate with coworkers, partners and vendors outside your organization.
- Simultaneously edit documents with your colleagues
- Conduct online meetings with colleagues, partners, and customers, including audio, video and screen sharing
- Manage and share important documents and personal insights with colleagues using My sites
- Share your calendar with colleagues, partners, and customers
- Share documents, task lists, and schedules to keep workgroups in synch with Teamsites
Anywhere Access
Provides easy access* to email, calendars, and contacts from nearly any device.
- Rich client access online or offline via Office desktop applications on PCs and Macs
- View and edit documents with Office Web Apps across a broad range of browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari)
- Access your inbox from a broad range of browsers with Outlook Web App
- Access mail, contacts, calendar, and SharePoint sites from hundreds of devices including Windows Phones, Nokia, Android, iPhone and BlackBerry
- Single inbox to manage email and voicemail with unified messaging
- Connect securely** over Internet with HTTPS without the need for VPN
* Access from mobile devices depends on carrier network quality and availability
** “Connect securely” is not a guarantee of 100% connection security.
Work with what You Know
Works seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook® and the other Office programs you already know.
- Minimal user training required to get productive right away
- Hybrid deployment scenarios allow on-premises and online users to work together seamlessly
- Multiple plans provide a cost effective way to provide familiar business productivity capabilities to everyone in your business
- Stay up to date with the latest productivity experience through a subscription service
Enterprise-Class Security & Reliability
Office 365 delivers online versions of Microsoft email and collaboration systems that businesses have been using for decades, all designed for the reliability, availability, and performance.
- Premium anti-spam and antivirus protection provided by multiple virus scanning engines
- Data is replicated in geo-redundant datacenters to protect against datacenter wide failures
- Risk mitigation multi-dimensional approach to help safeguard services and privacy of data
- Compliant with ISO 27001, SAS 70 Type I, FERPA, HIPPA, FISMA, EU Safe Harbor Seal
- Supported by a 99.9% financially-backed service level agreement
IT Control & Efficiency
Office 365 virtually eliminates the time and effort that IT people must spend managing your email and collaboration servers—while keeping you firmly in control.
- 24/7 global support from InterCall’s collaboration support experts
- Sophisticated notification and alert system
- Patches, security updates, and back-end upgrades are automatically deployed.
- Web-based access to system administration and user management
- Remote PowerShell to allow scripting of routine tasks and access to raw data for reports
- IT friendly service update policies that put you in control
- Subscription service plans allows for more accurate forecasting of IT expenditures with predictable annual costs and no hardware or upgrade costs.