Top 5 Office 365 Applications for Irish Businesses

Skype for business which has replaced Microsoft Lync in Enterprise environments has really come along way since the early days of Skype, its a great utility for instant chat social media style, voice, video calls, video group conferencing plus screen sharing and presentations. Skype For Business is very intuitive, we really think it's the best part of Office 365.

Microsoft Offer 1 TB of storage with OneDrive for Business and its very handy especially for offsite backups, depending on your company size its ideal for backing up local storage copies or File Server data to have access anywhere and on the go, replication is much better now and they have ironed out some bugs since OneDrive's early inception.

SharePoint for many years was completely cumbersome, every large organisation wanted integration of SharePoint however they usually didn't expand it's vast features instead using it as a versioning or document repository intranet only. More times than not this was a very basic setup due to poor administration or lack of knowledge. SharePoint 2016 has now been released, thankfully! as the previous version caused some pain with OneDrive For Business 2016. We hope to review SharePoint 2016 soon, however SharePoint due to its requirement for businesses we still rank this pretty high on our list of required applications.

"Business often forgot about good culture and ultimately they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employee's" Tony Hsieh, Zappos.

Yammer engages employees in a Facebook-like style social network, this is something which shouldn't be undervalued in any company as these applications are great areas for Brain Storming, Market Research, Customer Reviews, Live and active feedback. Companies using internal social media forums like Yammer can really drive productivity and engage with employee's better, in a current way which is much more collaborative.

Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel are really great applications and have evolved nicely overtime, they have excellent usability and haven't went through drastic changes unlike some of the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems instead a steady product evolution. These applications are almost necessity for any business unless you are using some unix or Linux variation or cloud  service but we still hold the Office Pack way ahead of its competitors.