With Office 365, Microsoft Aims SME Segment

Mid-2011, Microsoft launched a product which, according to Microsoft's Office 365 can improve business productivity and corporate professionals. Not only two segments, through the Office 365, Microsoft is also targeting the segment of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Office 365 is a package of business services based cloud computing (cloud computing). There are four services within the Office 365 SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office Professional Plus. Office 365 allows users to cooperate in processing documents, e-mail, via web conferencing, and shared events scheduled in the calendar.

Office Web Apps, which is the website version of Office applications, users can create or edit documents online. Meanwhile, Exchange Online, which will manage and store all e-mail users in a mailbox, store contacts, and manage personal schedules.
Furthermore, SharePoint Online to manage documents when users collaborate with colleagues, including organizing schedules, job sharing, to share other information. And the terakhirt, Lync Online that allows users to instant messaging to audio and video calls.
"In short, Office 365 is a set of cloud computing-based software that can be accessed online," said Irving Hutagalung, Technology Advisor Developer and Platform Group Microsoft Indonesia, when they travel to the office Kompas.com introduces Office 365, Wednesday (01/11/2012) .
Microsoft wanted to show that the need for information technology (IT) for SMEs is not something that expensive. With the cloud computing technology, SMEs do not need to spend a lot of money to invest in the IT field.
For the provision of e-mail or the company's website, for example, SMEs do not have to worry about the purchase and maintenance of the server because Microsoft has provided the server and data center through cloud computing services.
"So, companies or SMEs no longer need to take care of their servers and provide room server with a specific temperature. Server they will be taken care of by big companies cloud computing service providers," added Irving.
With Office 365, a user in one company can easily share documents or files and communicate via various platforms, such as instant messenger and video calls.
SMEs can run their business by utilizing the only option package at an affordable price. Parties Microsoft Indonesia has not been willing to explain the pricing of services from Office 365, they only mentioned the "very cheap".
When referring in the U.S. who had already been using Office 365, the package price of U.S. $ 2 per month for the cheapest package.
For Indonesia, this service has not been officially released. However, you could have tried all of its features for free by registering at http://www.office365.co.id.