Back up Office 365 emails with new Dropsuite cloud solution

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can take advantage of Dropsuite's Microsoft Office 365 (O365) Email Backup & Archiving solution via resellers such as Australia-based Ozhosting and Singapore-based ICONZ-Webvisions.

Dropsuite CEO Charif Elansari said: “At Dropsuite, our engineering-first culture is all about designing intuitive solutions that can be easily purchased and used by SMEs.”

CEO of Ozhosting Doug Endersbee said: “We’re delighted to be able to offer our customers Dropsuite’s O365 Email Backup & Archiving, a comprehensive email archiving service to a ‘legal hold’ standard.

“Many of the businesses we serve are professional services such as lawyers, accountants, health, architects, and every email has the potential to contain advice or a commitment that is legally binding and must be permanently retained - these businesses need the ability to protect themselves from inadvertent or malicious deletion of emails.

“A solution that is easily deployed, completely independent and isolated from the email platform, connected in real time to capture every file, and simple to search is just what our customers need.”

Microsoft Office 365 has over 60 million monthly active commercial users, and  50,000 small businesses added every month, according to Microsoft as of Q116.

Microsoft expands Office 365 support for SMBs

Microsoft is making it easier for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) to move to Office 365. In a blog post, the company is allowing customers with 50 to 149 seats of Office 365 Enterprise and small business plans to take advantage of Microsoft FastTrack, a service that provides resources and dedicated engineers to can assist the company or the Microsoft Partner that company works with, to implement Office 365. FastTrack was previously only available to customers with 150 seats or more.

Source: Microsoft. Office 365 can be used desktops, laptops
and mobile devices.

In Asia Pacific, Microsoft FastTrack is available in Australia, India, mainland China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Brunei, Bangladesh and Nepal. Local language FastTrack managers will also be available in Korea, Thailand and Vietnam in the first quarter of 2016.

Microsoft is also expanding the FY16 Adoption Offer to include Office 365 small business plans and adding payouts for customer deployments of 50 to 149 seats. This now makes Microsoft Partners eligible for a payout of US$25 per seat for 50 to 149 seats, in addition to the existing payouts for 150 seats and above.

Helping businesses grow

According to Gartner, which analysed cloud email usage among public companies of different sizes, industries and geographies, more companies use Microsoft Office 365 than Google Apps for Work. 

Microsoft notes that 60 million people use Office 365 at work and 50,000 SMBs become Office 365 customers every month. 

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Take advantage of FastTrack through contacting a Microsoft Partner or signing up directly

Microsoft Dynamics partners band together to offer Cloud ERP solution for Singapore SMEs

A group of Gold-certified Microsoft Dynamics Partners in Singapore, including IBIZ Consulting Services, MSC Consulting, DP Technology and SaaSplaza have collaborated to offer Red Dot ERP, which introduces a cloud-based business solution packaged for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore.

Red Dot ERP is based on a seamless integration of Microsoft's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, known as Dynamics NAV, which allows SMEs to gain greater control over all financials and key processes within their business, and Microsoft Office 365's productivity tools.

For S$99 per user per month, Red Dot ERP provides:

Full financials management, 

Supply chain management and sales management,
Microsoft Word 2016 on five devices per user,
Microsoft Excel 2016 on five devices per user,
Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 on five devices per user,
Microsoft OneDrive for Business with 1TB storage per user,
Microsoft SharePoint for document management,
Skype for Business for instant messaging, video and audio calls around the world, and the 

Yammer business social network 

All of these functions can be accessed securely anywhere, on any device including the iPad, iPhone, and any Android device via the free applications made available in the Apple and Google store respectively. 

"SMEs in Singapore today face an extremely competitive environment and are constantly challenged to increase productivity and reduce cost in order to stay relevant in the market place. As a company that is all about empowering individuals and organisations to achieve more, we are encouraged by Red Dot ERP's efforts to provide SMEs with a one-stop service by integrating Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics into a seamless software-as-a-service that is cost-effective and secure.

"Through this, SMEs will be able to access enterprise-grade capabilities that will allow their employees to do their best work wherever they are, and connect with their customers to build profitable customer relations through better business intelligence," said Gerald Leo, Director, Small Midmarket Solutions and Partner Group, Microsoft Singapore.

"In the past, businesses were hesitant about transitioning to the Cloud, fearing that their data would not be safe. However, Microsoft have recently achieved the highest level of certification (Level 3) for the Multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard for Singapore (SS 584) for Azure and Office 365, as well as Level 2 for Microsoft CRM Online. We support Microsoft's commitment to offer a truly holistic and trusted cloud to the local ecosystem, including self-disclosures which will allow our customers who are moving to the cloud to better understand and assess the cloud security they require," said Herb Prooy, Director of SaaSplaza. 

New Office 365 plans for companies with up to 250 staff

Microsoft has launched several new Office 365 plans for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to address the needs of companies with up to approximately 250 employees.

Office 365 Business is the full suite of Office applications—Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher and OneDrive for Business cloud storage, which makes it easy to access, edit and share documents across Windows PCs, Macs, iPads, Windows tablets and smartphones.

Office 365 Business Essentials covers the core cloud services for running a business, including business class email and calendaring, Office Online, online meetings, instant messaging (IM), video conferencing, cloud storage and file sharing.

Source: Microsoft blog.

Office 365 Business Premium combines the offerings from both the Office 365 Business and Business Essentials plans.

Current Office 365 SMB customers can visit the Message Center in Office 365 Admin Center for more details on how the plans will impact current subscriptions, or speak to their respective Office 365 providers.

For more details, visit the Office 365 blog here.