Microsoft Online Services provide businesses with subscription-based Microsoft-hosted Online Services that offer access to rich communication, collaboration and productivity applications from anywhere. These hosted solutions help organisations reduce the costs of managing and maintaining business systems, which frees up information technology resources as well as enabling staff to focus on initiatives that can deliver competitive advantage to the business.

Microsoft Online Services include: Intune, Office 365, Azure, CRM Online, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online

Some of the benefits to organisations of using Microsoft Online Services include:

• Better control of IT technology investments - buy only what you need now, and add more as your business grows.
• Better cash flow management - no upfront cash investment in costly in-house hardware and software.
• Simplified software subscription license management - attractive pricing and a predictable cost model.
• A Microsoft commitment to deliver secure, available and private online software services, financially backed by a 99.9 percent availability service-level agreement (SLA) and certified by a third-party audit.
• Increased productivity - robust integration amongst the Online Services products and with existing on-premise software, empowers your users with rich communication and collaboration.
• Access to the latest business productivity software services from Microsoft - as new versions of the software are released, users can start using it immediately, with no deployment delay.