Get More From Microsoft Office 365

How Businesses Can Get more from M365

Microsoft 365 (M365) is overflowing with applications and tools designed to streamline day-to-day operations and help businesses gain a competitive advantage. M365 is one of the most technologically advanced and sophisticated office tools available today, and is full of features that are specifically designed to enable businesses to increase productivity.

It’s no wonder then, that so many companies around the world use Microsoft, in fact, according to to statistics provided by Investing.com Microsoft is “The Most Enduring Tech Superstar”. Additionally, according to Statista there are over a million companies worldwide using Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise, and of the companies listed in the FTSE 100, over 90% are using Microsoft.

While most people are familiar with the core applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, there are many other tools available that can help you get more out of your Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

In this article, we’ll delve into several tools and illustrate how businesses can get more Microsoft Office 365.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams facilitates seamless collaboration, enabling real-time communication among team members. Whether it’s chat, video conferencing, file sharing, or project management, Teams serves as an invaluable resource for maintaining team cohesion, particularly for extensive projects requiring input from various members.

OneNote

OneNote serves as a digital notepad, aiding in the organisation of thoughts and ideas. Whether crafting to-do lists, jotting down meeting notes, or brainstorming concepts, OneNote proves invaluable for cataloguing information and concepts for future reference.

SharePoint

SharePoint, a web-based platform, facilitates content creation, management, and collaboration across organisations. From document libraries to team sites and workflows, SharePoint streamlines project management, ensuring everyone remains aligned.

Viva Engage

Viva Engage serves as a secure internal social networking tool. It fosters communication and collaboration among colleagues, enabling updates, queries, and feedback sharing. Yammer cultivates relationships within the organisation and keeps individuals abreast of pertinent developments.

Power BI

Power BI functions as a robust business intelligence tool, offering meaningful data visualisation and analysis capabilities. With interactive dashboards, reports, and charts, Power BI empowers informed decision-making, especially beneficial for businesses handling significant data volumes regularly.

Power Automate

Ever find yourself in a repetitive cycle, doing the same actions over, and over? Power Automate can automate these tasks for you, saving you loads of time. Power Automate connects across lots of Microsoft 365 apps and creates workflows using the actions you use most often. It can also inform other apps of changes you’ve made, sync files, and even post messages to Teams when a new task is created in Planner. Because it’s all automated, it means your people will be happier – they’re not having to repeat the same actions. And the risk of human error is removed.

Power Apps

Hailed as the leader in the no-code revolution, Power Apps gives your people the tools they need to create apps that improve their working lives. Power Apps can take away the manual entry of data, and push out updates to your team’s smartphones, so they stay updated wherever they are. It’s like Power Automate, in that it creates automated workflows, but it’s more involved.

CoPilot

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an AI-powered tool designed to revolutionise the way we work. Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 apps, combining the power of large language models (LLMs) with individual users’ data in the Microsoft Graph and Microsoft 365 apps, accessed through natural language, to turn words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet.

Implementing M365 into your company’s operations can greatly enhance efficiency, yet the integration process can be demanding. Given its extensive range of features and continuous updates, enlisting the services of an experience IT Managed Service Provider can certainly help your organisation prioritise and deploy the best apps in the best places.

In summary,

Microsoft 365 extends far beyond the familiar Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook suite, offering a diverse array of tools. Whether fostering team collaboration, organising notes, analysing data, managing projects, or facilitating communication, Microsoft 365 provides solutions tailored to diverse needs. Embracing these tools could unlock enhanced productivity and efficiency for yourself and your organisation.

For further advice or assistance, please book a complimentary discovery call and find out how you can get more out of M365.