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Office 365: What is SharePoint Online?

What is SharePoint? SharePoint is a powerful web based collaboration and eDiscovery platform that integrates familiar tools like Microsoft Office and Office 365. As a platform SharePoint can be used to host web sites for storing, organizing, sharing and collaborating on information in intranet, extranet and internet scenarios.

What is SharePoint? SharePoint is a powerful web based collaboration and eDiscovery platform that integrates familiar tools like Microsoft Office and Office 365. As a platform SharePoint can be used to host web sites for storing, organizing, sharing and collaborating on information in intranet, extranet and internet scenarios.

SharePoint Online takes the powerful features and flexibility of SharePoint on premise and extends it to the cloud. SharePoint Online has an amazing array of benefits to make your work life easier and to save the company money, but a good amount of planning is in order before you make the move. Understanding what’s in the platform and how your organization can use those features will help you in your effort to migrate from those old servers in the office to shiny new highly managed servers in the cloud.

Why would Government agencies be interested in this offering from Microsoft? SharePoint Online can be used to quickly setup internal collaboration and intranet sites. It can also be used to setup external collaboration sites that allow partners to collaborate securely with the State of California agencies. A number of agencies at the State have already done this successfully, such as, the Office of System Integration.

The Department of Technology announced on January 27th 2016 that agencies and departments can now order Office 365 as one of the state’s vendor-hosted software subscriptions (VHSS) via three different service bundles. The packages include a combination of Word and productivity tools, Exchange email, Skype videoconferencing and SharePoint Online; 50 GB email boxes and unlimited archiving. Data will be stored in Microsoft’s government cloud.

The Department of Technology will be procuring Office 365 on behalf of state agencies and departments through a pre-existing contract vehicle that Riverside County brokered with Microsoft under the Department of General Services’ Software Licensing Program.

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