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These days, almost all business activity starts with a digital document: whether it’s the creation of a new file or the modification of an existing template. Correspondence, contracts, plans and presentations containing critical information are used by companies on a daily basis.

OneNote is the whizziest Microsoft application you’re probably not using. If you thus far have steered clear of the digital note-taking service because, well, you thought the last thing you needed was another app to handle, it may be time to chew it over again.

Whether you’re presenting quarterly results or rolling out a new project, your presentation deck should help you to bring your message across. It should make your presentation more engaging and help your audience understand your message. It should absolutely not take away from your message or distract.

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.

Organizational psychologists have long been touting the benefits of fostering positive workplaces, but some companies still uphold cut-throat, high-pressure environments in the belief that it’s the best way to whip employees into shape and deliver results. In reality, it’s sometimes the best way to push employees towards burnout.

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