03 Mar. 2017
  • By : UNIQ Solutions

Microsoft Office 365 adoption keeps rising

Add those larger fish to Microsoft’s already impressive 85 million monthly active users -- set to surpass 100 million active users in early 2017 -- and you have what might be the beginnings of an empire numbers are all well and good, but just because sales are strong, doesn’t necessarily ensure that the product is top flight.Office 365 is not resting on its laurels as it seeks to continue capturing more and more of the cloud services market as mentioned before, cloud services often carry with them the added risk of putting your information in harm’s way by virtue of always been tethered to the internet. Being constantly connected is great, but that means being eternally vulnerable to breaches.

But this February, Microsoft sought to kill off some of those worries with a new rollout of security features for Office 365.These new features include Office 365 Secure Score which, as the name implies, provides a score to the user’s current office 365 configuration by way of a new security analytics tool.

Another addition to the could-based service is the Office 365 Threat Intelligence. This new creation will leverage billions of data points from the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph to provide information on online threats. This particular offering is currently in private preview with general availability slated for later this year.

A final new security addition is the Office 365 Advanced Data Governance, which hopes to employ machine learning in the defence of its customers’ data. This program will use machine learning to help users find and retain meaningful data while eliminated non-essential pieces of information that could be at risk if compromised. Similar to the threat intelligence program, advanced data governance is in private preview until its expected general release later this year and that’s just the security end of things. Microsoft is targeting the popular work chat app Slack with its own creation through Office 365 Microsoft Teams.

The company also released developer tools to allow its millions of monthly active users to get in and toy around with software integrations ideas of their own to add on to Microsoft teams.There’s talk of bots that can surface in chat channels and serve as a proxies for queries and quick actions by the customer. Looks like Microsoft is going all in on the robotic revaluation/digital singularity.

Office 365 Bottom Line

Office 365 has a ton of things going in its favor. Besides all the stellar growth numbers and the expanding scope of its cloud-based services, the suite has a number of other offerings that we didn’t even touch upon in this article, like Skype services and the ever popular OneDrive cloud-based storage.

The strong numbers and interesting features coupled with legacy applications towing strong reputations, and it’s easy to understand why Office 365 is gobbling up the market.This doesn’t necessarily mean that Microsoft will own the cloud-based services sector in the long-term, but it does point towards a strong brand only growing stronger, and nurturing an ever-growing audience along the way.



Subscribe Our Newsletter

Subscribe now!