If you want to buy Office 365 you'll need our partner number to make sure your purchase is registered with us so we can assist you. Our partner number is 623619. You can then visit the Office 365 web site to choose and buy the package you want. If you don't know what you want or need help choosing then just call us on 01280 817616 and we'll guide you through the options or set up a free trial for you.

We are often asked what the difference is between Office 365 and Google Apps. The simple answer is compatibility. Microsoft Office has over 90% of the market share but the first thing you find with Google Apps is that it wants to transform all your documents into their own format. This can result in data loss or bad formatting. Office 365 gives you access to the same format documents you and your co-workers and customers use and you can continue to use the familiar Microsoft Office applications you are currently using.

What is Office 365?

It's anywhere access to email, documents, contacts, and calendars so you're always up-to-date. It's familiar Microsoft productivity applications your team already uses. It's business-class security and reliability. It’s IT control and efficiency delivered to fit your organisation's unique needs. And it's an all in one pay-as-you-go service with an affordable price. But that’s just the beginning.


 

Office 365 delivers user productivity you can count on

  • All Office 365 plans provide users with virtually anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars on nearly any device (including PC, Mac, Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry)*.

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

  • Using Office Web Apps in Office 365 you can view your Office documents with great document fidelity and consistent formatting, do basic editing, and create new documents using the familiar Office interface.

  • With select midsize business and enterprise plans (Plans E3 and E4) you are also able to run always-up-to-date versions of Office Professional Plus.

Office 365 takes the worry out of IT

  • An easy-to-use administration console allows IT administrators to stay in control of user accounts, access rights, and organization-wide deployment.

  • Office 365 is a hosted online service within best-of-breed data centers that have received SAS 70 and ISO 27001 certification. Read the Office 365 security whitepaper (English-only).

  • Office 365 maintains the latest defenses against viruses and spam.

  • Information is safeguarded with globally-redundant servers to provide enterprise-grade reliability. Disaster recovery is handled via multiple datacenters and automatic failovers.

  • Office 365 reduces the time and cost IT would spend patching, upgrading, or updating servers.

  • You can count on Microsoft, an industry leader in productivity, for reliability. Microsoft provides a financially-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee.

  • For midsize businesses and enterprise plans, Microsoft provides access 24 hours a day, seven days a week to IT-level support over the phone, the web, or email.

* Access from mobile devices requires Wi-Fi capability or depends on carrier network availability.

Office 365 Plans

Office 365 is available in different levels to fit your business needs. Here is a brief overview of each of the plans:

Plan P - Email, Calendar, Contacts, Personal Archive with 25Gb mailbox storage with 25Mb attachments. Online document viewing and basic editing with Office web apps. Sharepoint hosted business web site. this plan has 10 G of storage on sharepoint per company and 500 Mb per user. It's not possible to buy additionnal storage on this plan.

Plan E1 -  Email, Calendar, Contacts, Personal Archive with 25Gb mailbox storage with 25Mb attachments. 

Plan E2 - As above but adds online document viewing and basic editing with Office web apps.

Plan E3 - As above but adds Office Professional Plus for use on workstations and unlimted mailbox storage and archiving.

Plan E4 - As above but adds voice integration for compatible PBXs.

The single biggest significant difference between Plan P and Plan E is that under Plan P your web site must be hosted on the Microsoft platform and cannot be hosted elsewhere. Plan E allows your web site to be hosted on third party servers. Please refer to the Microsoft Office 365 web site for full details.