The Benefits of an optimised Microsoft365 ecosystem

For decades, Microsoft Office (now known as Microsoft 365) has delivered the world’s most popular business productivity platform.

However, in the modern workplace, where subscription-based services have taken over from stand-alone software purchases, simply ‘clicking update’ whenever the prompt appears is not enough to truly reap all its potential benefits.

If businesses intend to truly extract the most value from their Microsoft 365 ecosystems, delivering the best efficiency, collaboration, and productivity for their teams, constant optimisation is required.

Sounds a lot of hassle, right? But the benefits are significant and the responsibility doesn’t necessarily have to lie within your team…

Key Benefits, and how IPEX makes them a reality:

Enhance your existing apps

Chances are you’re already using Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive as a central hub for team collaboration to some extent… but are you using them effectively?

Can your team take advantage of auto-transcribed calls? Are all files kept in the cloud to ensure version control and 24/7 access (only by employees with the right privileges)? How often to staff complain about not having space on their devices?

Having an expert like IPEX Optimising your Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive tools, and helping you sett best practices within your business, will save your team’s time, ensure they can work together more efficiently, regardless of their physical location. All while giving you more control around file access, security, and resilience.

Improve productivity

Microsoft 365 offers a range of automation tools like Power Automate, which can remove the need for your team to perform repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on more strategic activities...But only if you know how!

By tailoring Microsoft 365’s automation capabilities to your specific business processes, IPEX can eliminate inefficiencies and make it easier for your team to get their work done quickly and accurately!

Keep information secure

By diving into your Microsoft 365 settings, you can put processes and protections in place to ensure data stays secure and meets regulatory compliance requirements.

Features like multi-factor authentication (MFA), data loss prevention (DLP), and advanced threat protection (ATP), will all help you safeguard against unauthorised access and cyber threats. IPEX can do that for you and ensure regular reviews and updates to keep your business at the forefront of defending against potential breaches.

Boost scalability and flexibility

One of the key benefits of Office 365 is its scalability – just add a new licence and your new employee is up and running – allowing your business to quickly scale during periods of growth.

However, offloading that responsibility to a Managed Service Provider like IPEX even takes that responsibility off your hands, leaving you more free time to spend elsewhere. We can even take training off your hands so new team members know exactly how to use all of 365’s tools and features to their full potential.  

Reduce costs

With so many different tiers and licenses within the MS365 platform, having an expert like IPEX behind you can save you significant amounts.

Not only can we reduce the need for additional third-party applications and services, but we can make sure you’re extracting all the potential from within your existing licenses and find savings through regularly audits that surface unused or underutilized resources, adjusting subscription plans to avoid spend!

Our ability to optimise your cloud-based services isn’t limited to just Microsoft 365 either, with the expertise to audit your entire IT and network stack to ensure you’re getting the most from all your SaaS subscriptions.

In fact, we’re running a FREE Software Subscription Audit for any business interested in finding better value from their services.

So, whether you’re a single office looking to get more value from Microsoft 365, or a multi-site national business needing to cut costs and boost productivity across the entire company, click here to discover how to optimise your software stack and transform the way your organisation works!

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