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In today’s world of mobile working, the tagline of enterprise cloud solutions seems to revolve around three pivotal factors – business transformation, lower IT costs and employee productivity. Amidst the past few years of cloud hype, however, it has become increasingly difficult to extricate the hard facts from the haze around the fair bit of cloud computing buzzwords and decipher the real value of cloud-based Office 365 productivity tools in the workplace.

35 years later, history repeats itself. In a full back page ad in the New York Times, Slack, the fast-growing messaging startup, welcomes Microsoft’s competition into the messaging market with an open letter in a mocking undertone.

UPDATE: Information in this article was updated on 28th of November, 2017. Office 365 comes with an intriguing set of handy tools and features to help you work smarter and more efficiently in Microsoft’s cloud.

Whether it is in our personal life with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email, you name it, or at work with a variety of social feeds, intranet portals, blogs, email and more – in today’s information-loaded world of cloud-based networking, we are constantly challenged to pool the volume of information that is coming at us through a vast number of channels. And more often than not, we struggle to break through the content clutter and comb out which kind of information is of relevance to us in order to master our daily activities.

It’s clear that in a digitalized age, simply having digitized processes isn’t enough. Analogue workplaces have now become a thing of the past – only seen in TV and movies. So it would be hard to expect to stand out simply by automating your workflow in line with everybody else in your industry.

Office 365 is not just about getting things done faster. It is about reinventing how you get them done.

CEO Satya Nadella’s words pretty much hit home at the Microsoft Government Cloud Forum in November 2015, striking a chord with the many IT managers who more often than not seem to be deeply concerned about Office 365 compliance and data security when facing the decision whether or not to move on-premises content to Microsoft’s cloud-based service. Why?

It’s just another ordinary day at the office. Multiple conversations and discussions taking place at one and the same time, countless meetings and appointments on top of another to coordinate and keep up to date with, files stored all over the place.

Windows PowerShell is what you get when you beef up C: prompt. Developed for purposes of task automation and configuration management, Microsoft has been putting full weight behind making PowerShell the management tool of choice since its rollout in November 2006.

When Microsoft released Office for iOS in 2014, it constituted a fundamental shift in corporate strategy. Before, Office apps for iPhone, iPad and even Office 365 were rather restricted compared to the full-feature, standalone versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel for Windows and Mac OS.