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Microsoft's Answer to Cloud Technology: A Product Review by Roy Koh Product Name: Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise Company That Owns Product: Microsoft What business problem is the product designed to solve? Microsoft Office 365 is designed to: • Ease the complexity of managing the Office ecosystem ( desktop applications) • Deliver the Office ecosystem to an increasingly mobile audience • Deliver the audience Office ecosystem to a broader • Leverage increasingly ubiquitous and pervasive Internet connectivity to use Office as a communication tool Microsoft accomplishes these objectives by delivering the Office ecosystem as a hosted cloud solution. Office 365 is Microsoft's remixed answer to Google Apps for the enterprise. It includes numerous options by which subscribers enjoy email messaging, unified communications, document creation and collaboration portals. Benefits apply to both large and small organizations. , the servers, server applications and Is the business problem that this product addresses long-standing and waiting for a solution or new and expected to become more widespread? Under the circumstance that Office 365 addresses multiple needs, it is fair to say that some of these needs are old and some are new. For example, the burdens of maintaining infrastructure have existed for years, but the rapid growth in mobile usage is relatively recent. We've arguably hit a tipping point wherein, if we add it all up, the want or need for Microsoft to host our Office ecosystem via Office 365 is a "new" problem. How well does this product deliver on solving the described business problem? Office 365 includes a number of solutions bundled in various options that benefit customers differently, depending on their respective wants and needs. For example, www.iltanet.org Tech Potpourri 7 i.e. full