Microsoft 365 Modern Workplace: Promoting Excellence and Growth

The Modern Workforce is mobile. Modern Workplace is an area where an organization can have a company-wide transformation by involving several teams, inspiring employees, engaging customers, optimizing the workflow by enhancing the company's services and way of work that spearheads productivity. True modernization implies completely engaging collaboration integrated with modern technology to enhance the outcome. 

Why do We Need a Modern Workplace?  

“Change is the only constant!” In the Corporate field, a continuous change in the employee expectation, diversely distributed teams with different sets of skills along with an increasingly complex threat environment, demands a modern workplace. The companies need to cope up with the challenges by having a quick responsive and modern workplace for the upcoming needs. Companies need a seamless communication and collaboration platform along with multi-device experience, a top-notch intelligent security system to protect sensitive data and a unified environment for ease of work. 

Microsoft 365 allows the users to get the best in the market productivity and collaboration tools along with Enterprise level protection that supports modern work environments. 

Mobility 

Most of the modern companies are currently aiming at BYOD which enables the employees to work with ease using his/her own device. This method increases productivity as the user is not new to the environment. With Microsoft's office tools, employees can enjoy working in both personal and corporate devices. Microsoft’s mobile device management and mobile application management solutions help secure endpoints. Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Windows Hello provide the best in the market endpoint security features with multi-factor authentication using Azure Active Directory. The credentials can be used in the cloud, on-premise as well as in a Hybrid set up. 

One of the key features of Microsoft is its multi-device experience. The advanced security feature is no longer just bound to the device level but is now at user-level security allowing the employees to work from any place, any time, and through any device. 

Seamless Collaboration and Communication 

In most work environments, work gets better in teams. The switch from me-centric to we-centric organization has been essential as this allows the employees to form groups and complete tasks or solve problems much faster than individual effort. This enhances productivity allowing the company to take on more projects.  

Microsoft creates a high productivity environment with the increase of technology and empowering the employees to achieve more with the cloud. Microsoft Teams in conjunction with Microsoft SharePoint allows the employees to communicate and collaborate seamlessly in their own ways. SharePoint is used to create team sites where employees can make project-based team sites to share the details with all members of the team to increase productivity. Microsoft Teams being at the pinnacle of the chat-based collaboration tool, allows the employees to form groups, share documents, attend video conferences and also have over 250 app integrations available from within the application.  

Employees can enjoy highly secured, reliable capabilities to share and exchange ideas in real asynchronous mode, protecting sensitive data. 

Intelligent Security 

With the rapid growth of cyber threats, there is a need to update the security features of the organization. Microsoft 365 protects the applications, data, and also employee identity. Employees having multi-device experience are also protected from endpoint attacks. The Microsoft 365 gives the organization an insight to proactively defend against threats such as malware, phishing, zero-day attacks. Organizations can rely on Microsoft Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) for the different security challenges: 

• Threat Protection using O365 Advanced Threat Protection, Windows Defender and Exchange Online Protection. 

• Employees identity, app, data and device protection with Azure Active Directory, Windows Hello, Microsoft Intune.