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There’s No Better Time to Try Office 365By Thomas Hansen, Vice President, SMB WorldwideI’ve talked a lot during the past year about how Microsoft is democratizing IT for SMBs through our cloud offerings such as Office 365. Office 365 is a powerful solution, allowing your SMB to solve business problems faster and more cost-effectively. The benefits that small businesses can realize by leveraging Office 365 are endless – from enhanced collaboration and productivity for your employees to enterprise-grade functionality, security and privacy and more. Now, we’re giving you one more reason to try Office 365 for yourself: A new 90-day free trial offer.There’s truly never been a better time than today to try Office 365. SMBs can now go to and register for the free trial to gain access to Office 365 Plan 1 for up to 10 users, which includes small business versions of Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online. I could talk at length about the endless benefits of Office 365 (and I’m sure many of you have heard me do just that), but what better way to demonstrate the power of this product than to show you how other SMBs have taken advantage of what Office 365 has to offer.Take for instance Educativa, an education advocacy firm whose mission is to transform the Romanian educational system by providing information, skills and connections for students to gain admission to higher learning institutions. Educativa manages a network of 380 high schools, and it needed a scalable and more reliable solution that could support email for its large community of student users without the many lost emails, slow speed and outages it had dealt with to date. Realizing that its current system couldn’t support the organization’s needs, Educativa switched to Office 365 and drastically improved its productivity by 200 percent. Educativa was able to promptly respond to the 25,000 mails received and increased each Educativa consultant’s student support to 600 students – twice as many as before adopting Office 365. Other SMBs are looking to decrease costs while still using an enterprise-grade solution. The Child Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing practical, emotional and financial assistance to children in New Zealand with cancer. Because of the nature of charitable work, it needed a solution that had a centralized system in order to decrease the cost spent on travel, phone calls and the overall upkeep of IT. On top of it all, the Child Cancer Foundation was using an outdated on-premises server that it could not afford to update. The Foundation evaluated cloud solutions and found its answer in Office 365. By moving to Office 365, the Child Cancer Foundation eliminated conference call costs and travel fees, with an overall savings of $60,000 for the year. This is the kind of success that SMBs can realize by becoming Office 365 users. And now is the perfect time to see why 90 percent of Office 365 customers are SMBs. Visit to get started today. ................
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