Sunday, 9 October 2011

Office 365, small business productivity tools

Office 365, small business productivity tools

Total Locker Service has just moved its system to Office 365, which provides significant advantage making the sharing of calendars and documents simple. Wherever our staff our working they can access the same documents they would use in the office over the internet allowing all our staff to be up-to-date with the latest information all the time. Removing the need for duplicate documentation, duplicated effort and out of date information.

The system can be tailored to meet the needs of the various elements of the business, the service engineers can access the up to the minute service calendar providing them with the current visits and appointments, access to the relevant service documentation, service sign off sheets and engineers reports.

This is providing Total Locker Service with a significant advantage over its previous system.

So Microsoft a good product though it is in need of significant improvement, the design and development tools are far from intuitive you can spend hours trying to find the particular development tools to change a particular part of the page. The interface is similar to the Microsoft Office control ribbon, which is OK for Word and Excel though I have not found it useful in setting up Office 365.

The improvements that are urgently needed are more detailed instructions on how to use and configure the system, the current information is pitiful, Google can get away with this as their products are intuitive.

Better integration of the calendar function with Office.

More detailed instructions on how to integrate email with existing business email systems

My final comment would be stop trying to create work for consultants to configure the system for you, most small business are not interested they will just use Google.

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