Software giant, Microsoft has now launched Office 365 for businesses in India. Office 365 provide users a platform where users can share data across PCs and mobiles using cloud computing technology. This is a cloud based service and users will be able to access their data from variety of device like smartphones, laptops and desktops.
“Office 365 unlocks social and mobility scenarios that will allow businesses and individuals to take full advantage of cloud computing. It gives them the freedom to do things, when, where and how they want,” Microsoft India Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik said.
Office 365 is paid for $6-22 per user per month. For a single user, this service can be installed on up to five devices. For the distribution, Microsoft has tied up with Bharti Airtel. Aitel wil provide customers office 365 with DSL cable and Internet access.
“Our business operates out of multiple locations and we need data access at any given point of time even when we are not at the desk. Our requirement was to have a cloud storage space,” said the company’s chief manager S. Sridhar. “Microsoft 365 was chosen as the comfort level of working on Microsoft products is higher and we could sync better with our regular operations. Reliability and data security is higher with Microsoft.”
All plans of the service will come with an IT level web support and 24×7 phone support to resolve critical issues of the customers. Company also claimed to give up to 99.9 percent uptime.
