Determining the right fit

Assessment: Microsoft 365 or OfÏce 365 Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

01 / 02 / Choosing the right Take the Table of productivity solution assessment contents This assessment will help you understand your business needs in the context of Microsoft’s secure productivity 03 / 04 / solutions—Microsoft 365 and OfÏce 365—and guide your decision as you determine which one will best work Get your results Realigning your tools for your organization. to enable secure productivity

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Choosing the right productivity solution Cloud-based solutions are essential to Several productivity solutions exist, productivity, efÏciency, and security and finding the one that fully enables in the modern workplace—where secure collaboration and performance employees often work on several devices can be difÏcult. Other companies might from home, the ofÏce, or both. But how offer solutions that could be redundant do you know which solution will best additions to your current tech stack, % serve your organization? leaving you to have to pay for the same feature twice. Or they might only have 70 In an ideal scenario, technology two of the three benefits you’re looking of organizations have been would fully enable productivity and for, leading you to compromise on the compromised by unsanctioned performance without exposing your missing feature and pay for and manage 1 organization to security risks. Employees more than one solution. Knowing that software, apps, and services in every department—IT included— your productivity solution can drive would be free to collaborate and work collaboration and performance without productively from any device, anywhere, sacrificing security is crucial—and not without worrying if their data was secure. every solution on the market can deliver. Streamlined endpoint management and automation tools would save your organization valuable time and resources to unlock better business performance. 3 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity At Microsoft, we’ve developed solutions that deliver both security and Drive secure productivity productivity for any organization. Microsoft solutions are built on a secure Zero Trust foundation—designed to protect against attacks at every access and performance point—and offer endpoint protection managed in the cloud. This way, your organization can streamline access to secure productivity for all types of employees, on any device, no matter where they’re located. And because every Microsoft app is built to work with AI, your employees can focus on the work that matters most while remaining confident in the high standard of security your organization needs, especially when working with AI. Our solutions at a glance OfÏce 365 Microsoft 365 A secure suite of productivity apps A trusted platform and productivity cloud delivering intelligent experiences and insights 4 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Assessment Which is right for your organization? The following questions are designed to help you determine which Microsoft solution can help you enable a secure, productive workplace. The assessment is in five parts and assesses your organization’s: • Relationship to security and compliance • IT infrastructure • Productivity priorities • Communication and collaboration needs • Plans for scalability, growth, and AI Each question has two possible answers. Choose the option that sounds most like where your organization stands. Keep a tally of your answers as you go. At the end of the assessment, we’ll recommend whether Microsoft 365 or OfÏce 365 delivers the best value for your business needs. Take the assessment 5 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Part One: Your organization’s relationship to security and compliance 1. How important is it that your productivity tools have a robust 2. How much do productivity tools that incorporate regulatory security framework built in? compliance and data encryption matter to your organization? A Very important: We need a solution that includes core security, identity, A Very much: Integrated data protection and compliance are and access management features. immediate priorities. B Less important: We just need basic security features with our B A little: We just need basic data protection and compliance capabilities. productivity tools. 1/5 6 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Part Two: Your organization’s IT infrastructure 3. Do you need a productivity solution that empowers your employees to work from anywhere on any device? 4. How important is efÏcient, optimized cloud endpoint management? A Yes: Our teams work from a variety of locations and devices, and we need A Very important: Our IT team needs a solution that enables cloud-based to be able to seamlessly support them. security and streamlined endpoint management. B No: Our teams work on-site and/or only use one sanctioned device each B Less important: Streamlined endpoint management isn’t a priority for for their work. IT right now. 2/5 7 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Part Three: Your organization’s productivity priorities 5. Is it necessary for your organization to have interconnectivity and 6. How much would your organization benefit from built-in analytics integration between your apps and tools? or real-time insights into your employees’ productivity? A Yes: We want apps that seamlessly work together to streamline productivity. A Very much: We’d benefit from analytics, and we’d like it to be much easier to analyze our employees’ productivity. B No: We just need easy-to-use apps, but integration isn’t a priority. B A little: We don’t need real-time insights and/or can already handle our own analytics. 3/5 8 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Part Four: Your organization’s communication and collaboration needs 7. How critical to your organization’s productivity are integrated, 8. Would your organization benefit from a solution that facilitates user-friendly collaboration and communication tools? real-time collaboration for your employees? A Very critical: We need tools that are easy for employees to learn and A Yes: We want our employees to more easily work as a cohesive unit. use together. B Less critical: Integrated collaboration and communication tools aren’t a B No: Our employees already have ways to collaborate in real time. priority for us right now. 4/5 9 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Part Five: Your organization’s plans for scalability, growth, and AI 9. Does your organization require a platform that can grow with the company, easily onboard and offboard new users, and handle 10. How important is it to have a solution that enables the additional IT efforts like deploying and managing more devices? incorporation of AI when your organization is ready? A Yes: We’re growing fast and need help streamlining scalability. A Very important: Our organization is excited and curious about how AI can support our employees’ productivity and collaboration. B No: Scalability isn’t a priority for us. B Less important: Enabling AI isn’t a priority for us right now. 5/5 Get your results 10 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity With Microsoft 365 E3, you get Microsoft 365 apps compatible with any operating system for desktop and mobile, as well as Windows for Enterprise, making it easy for employees to work securely from anywhere. Options for chat, meetings, and file Results: sharing are also available so every employee can communicate and collaborate effectively. If you answered Core security and identity management capabilities help streamline IT performance, making it easier to protect endpoints with mostly A’s by centralizing management in the cloud. Microsoft 365 E3 also supplies your organization with core security controls that support the user journey from login to using Copilot for Microsoft 365, your AI assistant that works alongside you in the Your organization would benefit most from a cloud-based solution designed to applications you and your team use every day. maximize security and productivity for your employees wherever they work. Here’s why Microsoft 365 is the best solution for your organization: Your organization can also reduce IT costs related to deployment, integration, and management. And as a seamless, integrated, Microsoft 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution that combines best-in-class cloud-based solution, Microsoft 365 E3 can reduce siloed productivity apps with core security and compliance capabilities to: experiences of navigating between apps or tools to get work done, manage endpoints, or keep data protected. • Improve productivity and foster a culture of collaboration with connected experiences • Transform how you manage your business and enhance customer relationships with integrated workflows Need something even more robust? • Proactively protect your employees, data, and customer information with Consider Microsoft 365 E5. It includes everything in intelligent security Microsoft 365 E3 but adds advanced security and compliance capabilities that extend identity, data, and threat protection, scalable business analytics with Power BI, and audio conferencing for up to 1,000 attendees. 11 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Results: If you answered with mostly B’s Then your organization is most likely focused on productivity basics. Here’s why OfÏce 365 is for you: OfÏce 365 E3 is a cloud-based suite of familiar foundational productivity applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint with basic data protection and compliance capabilities included. With OfÏce 365 E3, you can: • Install OfÏce 365 for mobile on up to five PCs or Macs, five tablets, and five phones per user • Protect information with message encryption, rights management, and data loss prevention for emails and files • Safeguard corporate data by allowing more secure access and sharing of sensitive information and company resources • Facilitate legal compliance and email archiving 12 Assessment: Which productivity solution will empower your workforce?

Choosing a Solution Take Assessment Get Results Enable Productivity Realign your tools to enable secure productivity Now that you better understand your organization’s secure productivity priorities, you can make an informed decision between Microsoft’s solutions. Microsoft 365 is ideal for securing your organization with robust protection features and enhancing employee productivity with a cloud platform designed to streamline work from anywhere and scale as you grow. OfÏce 365 is ideal for equipping your employees with foundational productivity apps and services, without sacrificing data protection and compliance. Every Microsoft solution is ideal for securely empowering your employees with the tools they need to be more efÏcient and productive, helping them focus on doing their best work from anywhere. Learn more about your recommended productivity solution

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