Office 365 has come a long way

In reality, Office 365 is just more than just Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It has become a lot more like a Project collaboration system enhancing business productivity with all the right tools in place. The apps are now equipped with AI and other cutting-edge innovations to give businesses a strong foundation to carry out their operations. The different Office 365 plans are there for companies of different sizes. The plans like Office 365 E1, Office 365 E3, Office 365 E5, and Office 365 subscriptions for Government and Education will remain unchanged under this rollout of changes in Microsoft 365.

The new changes facilitate the SME’s with newer subscription plans

At least, this is what Microsoft says officially. Microsoft has now evolved every module of O365 with cloud and AI, thus, providing modern SME’s with a lot of opportunities already. The Office 365 plans like ProPlus has been very popular with businesses and with the Addition of Teams into Office 365, they get a chance to host rich virtual meetings utilizing the cloud storage and other cutting-edge innovative components to make them do more with less.

Summary of changes

To cut the Long story short, here is a summary of the name changes:

• Office 365 Business Premium > Microsoft 365 Business Standard
• Office 365 Business > Microsoft 365 Apps for Business
• Office 365 ProPlus > Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
• Office 365 Business Essentials > Microsoft 365 Business Basic
• Microsoft 365 Business > Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Also Read: 5 processes to automate for better Microsoft CSP Productivity

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Even today, Microsoft CSPs often experience an obstruction in cloud computing services business growth which leads to lesser margins. In order to increase business growth, it is important to highlight the processes that can be automated and are currently being carried out manually. Here, we highlight a few such processes that every Microsoft CSP must know to in order to automate for better business growth.

1. Changing margins due to change in Microsoft’s Prices

Let’s face it. We’ve all been in a situation where we think again on what sales price to quote to the customers for a better profit margin. It is due to the fact that Microsoft frequently changes its Azure and Office 365 cost prices, leaving every Microsoft CSP in confusion. For better revenue it is essential that your account manager is updated with the Microsoft’s latest pricing spreadsheets. Let’s say, a quote for a service can give you better margins in January but not the same good margin the next month! With manual checking, you’d need a huge team to just keep checking for the updates every now and then from Microsoft. The sane solution would be: Go for automation and change quotes accordingly for better profit margins.

2. ERP overload due to manual updation of License Quantities

A manual creation of new sales order each time a customer’s buys something from your business service, the ERP would stay sane for a couple of thousand orders but once your revenue stream goes up, by say 50 thousand USD, the process would become extremely laborious. In order to cater for that, every Microsoft CSP must assess new automation approaches to simplify complex tasks in your cloud computing services.

3. Invoicing your customers (The mess has just begun)

Even today some CSPs are going through manual invoicing, where you add the customers costs. Depending upon your setup, you might have another person handle the suppliers like Microsoft. These are two different jobs but have a huge impact on your business revenue if not done in harmony.

The person handling manual invoices must create invoices based on the billing system and calculate costs. Thu number of updates makes the process more messy depending upon the billing cycle for each customer. At the end, nobody is sure that the final invoice is exactly what it should be, since it is a manual generation.

4. Microsoft Cost Reconciliation and resulting Discrepancies in costs

The manual systems get more complicated when the business has to pay the supplier like Microsoft right away. You might notice after a few cycles that there is no reconciliation between the supplier invoice for a billing cycle and the customers’ payments for the same billing cycle. Since you can’t say no to a supplier (ever), your cloud computing services business suffers because of manual invoicing practice.

5. The struggle to deliver cost-transparency

Customers demand cost-transparency. That is not really possible if the data is managed manually. With a larger customer base, this is practically impossible without an automated approach.

ALSO READ: 3 ways MachPanel can boost your business profits

Fast-track your business with automaton processes with MachPanel

The process you are carrying out in a manual approach, surely hinder your business growth one day as your customer base grows. You should never let these manual processes impair your business productivity. It is therefore important to synchronization and consolidation between business systems and processes. Adopting business process automation services is the key to solve this problem.

MachPanel provides you all the necessary tools and an integrated platform to automate your cloud business through a pool of business process automation services. With integrated invoicing, automated billing and different automation modules for business productivity like Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Skype for Business Server, Microsoft Work Folders, Microsoft Directory Sync, Microsoft Hyper V and Microsoft Dynamics 365, you get the required tools needed for a 365 degree business automating.

The icing on the cake: MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

With this module, you can fully automate and manage entire lifecycle of your Direct and Indirect CSP Business with MachPanel. You own and control the billing, along with the freedom to showcase bundle and sell integrated offers with a hybrid marketplace. The platform provides easy ways to Provision, Manage, support & Bill Microsoft CSP.

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The Microsoft 365 compliance center

The Microsoft 365 compliance center is a dedicated workspace in order to facilitate compliance professionals with all their security management related assessments and other ops like compliance risk assessment, data protection with Data Governance feature, Data Subject Requests and other Microsoft 365 services through intelligent platform that provides a unified experience as part of latest Microsoft 365 features. Actionable insights are provided in order to improve compliance to GDPR and ISO.

Microsoft Information Protection capabilities

These are exciting capabilities and Microsoft 365 features that Microsoft has to offer for the protection of sensitive data. These capabilities include classifying content, applying labels to different types of documents and emails. Here comes the juicy part for Mac users and smartphone users, these capabilities can be implemented from Office apps on Mac and Office mobile apps designed for iOS and Android. Labels like “Highly Confidential” can be added to a document and the relevant protection policy, like access restrictions and encryption techniques defined for highly confidential email and documents, would be implemented over those documents. Other labels include Public, Non- Business, Confidential and General.

Insights and granular controls

Insights have become the core of every business-centric activity these days. Microsoft has previewed a Label Analytics dashboard as a part of future Microsoft 365 features that enables data classification and policies viewing capabilities. This is an additional feature in the Microsoft Office compliance center that lets you analyze the usage of sensitive and retention labels across Office 365 data and non-Office 365 data. It also streamlines management of data governance

eDiscovery capabilities

The latest eDiscovery capabilities provide a different and better look and feel, with features amongst other Microsoft 365 features like holding notifications, acknowledgment tracking, integrated review and many more. You can also isolate case-related contents for specific analysis for any legal matter. The review and redact capabilities are provided so as to get all the documents and legal matters streamlined with necessary modifications. These are important Microsoft 365 features.

MachPanel – the cloud Automation solution for Microsoft Services

MachPanel is a Microsoft Accredited Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP). Globally trusted by CSPs and serving the Cloud industry for almost two decades, MachPanel is a complete cloud business automation tool designed for Providers, Retailers and AD users which make management easier in a user-friendly environment. The built-in Hybrid marketplace, Self Service tools, easy-to-generate reporting features, Migration Tools for SharePoint, AD, Exchange and many other features like automatic billing and subscription makes MachPanel the most favorite Control Panel for CSPs. MachPanel streamlines business ops so you can focus more on the growth of your business.

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