Microsoft has made a presentation Office 365 - cloud service that allows corporate customers to the company faster and easier to build a workflow system based on Microsoft Office. Cost Microsoft employees do away with the presentation and allow to ask questions, someone from the press officers immediately asked to explain what Office 365 better than Google Apps and other free solutions. Answers quickly found and sounded quite convincing.
The first one of the representatives of systems integrators, also attended the presentation, dispel beliefs about the free Google Apps. Applications are free only for the first ten users, then the same will have to pay $ 50 a year per user. One hundred users - for five thousand dollars a year.
Hard pressed, of course, the main advantage of Microsoft Office - full program as well that still did nothing. Whatever may be said fans free clones, the difference still exists, and users of it quickly guess.
The main advantage of Google Apps was a web interface and the plainness of the actions required in order to share the file. Office 365 significantly reduces the gap. The only thing that can not be done here so far - it's two of us to simultaneously edit the same document using the web interface. But with the "desktop" Microsoft Word is quite possible.
One more important thing - the ability to run Office 365 on its own server. In Microsoft knows that some of the customers do not want to trust the cloud service for all its worth. Well, if you wish, you can always migrate in one direction or another.
And finally sounded interesting words that Google Apps will be difficult to integrate into existing ERP. Details, however, not told. It is known that Google Apps is available API, but it's possible that companies that have good solutions to Microsoft, the choice really is not much, and can only be glad that "Office" is getting better and does not greatly outperform the competition itself on any critical one direction.
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