{"id":177,"date":"2017-07-10T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/2017\/07\/10\/introducing-microsoft-365\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:47:32","slug":"introducing-microsoft-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/introducing-microsoft-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Microsoft 365"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today\u2019s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team.<\/em><\/p>\n Today at\u00a0Inspire<\/a>, Satya Nadella unveiled\u00a0Microsoft 365<\/a>, which brings together Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security, delivering a complete, intelligent and secure solution to empower employees. It represents a fundamental shift in how we will design, build and go to market to address our customers’ needs for a modern workplace.<\/p>\n The workplace is transforming\u2014from changing employee expectations, to more diverse and globally distributed teams, to an increasingly complex threat landscape. From these trends, we are seeing a new culture of work emerging. Our customers are telling us they are looking to empower their people with innovative technology to embrace this modern culture of work.<\/p>\n With more than 100 million commercial monthly active users of Office 365, and more than 500 million Windows 10 devices in use, Microsoft is in a unique position to help companies empower their employees, unlocking business growth and innovation.<\/p>\n To address the commercial needs from the largest enterprise to the smallest business, we are introducing Microsoft 365 Enterprise<\/a> and Microsoft 365 Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n Microsoft 365 Enterprise\u00a0is designed for large organizations and integrates Office 365 Enterprise, Windows 10 Enterprise and Enterprise Mobility + Security to empower employees to be creative and work together, securely.<\/p>\n Microsoft 365 Enterprise:<\/p>\n Microsoft 365 Enterprise is offered in two plans\u2014Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5. Both are available for purchase on August 1, 2017.<\/p>\n Microsoft 365 Enterprise<\/a> is built on the foundation of the highly successful Secure Productive Enterprise, which grew seats by triple digits in the last year. Going forward, Microsoft 365 Enterprise replaces Secure Productive Enterprise to double-down on the new customer promise of empowering employees to be creative and work together, securely.<\/p>\n Microsoft 365 Business is designed for small- to medium-sized businesses with up to 300 users and integrates Office 365 Business Premium with tailored security and management features from Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security. It offers services to empower employees, safeguard the business and simplify IT management.<\/p>\n Microsoft 365 Business:<\/p>\n Microsoft 365 Business will be available in public preview on August 2, 2017. It will become generally available on a worldwide basis in the fall (CYQ3) of 2017, priced at US $20 per user, per month.<\/p>\n As a part of our commitment to small-to-medium sized customers, we\u2019re also announcing the preview of three tailored applications<\/a> that are coming to Office 365 Business Premium and Microsoft 365 Business:<\/p>\n Today, we are also announcing that Microsoft\u2019s mileage tracking app, MileIQ<\/strong>, is now included with Office 365 Business Premium.<\/p>\n Satya also discussed how Microsoft 365 represents a significant opportunity for partners to grow their businesses. Microsoft 365 will drive growth by enabling our more than 64,000 cloud partners to differentiate their offerings, simplify their sales processes and increase their revenue.<\/p>\n According to two Forrester Total Economic Impact\u2122 Studies (commissioned studies conducted by Forrester Consulting),\u00a0Microsoft 365 Enterprise<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Microsoft 365 Business<\/a>\u00a0increase average partner margins by an estimated 35 percent and 20 percent, respectively, over three years.\u00a0Partners can learn more and explore training, sales and deployment resources on the\u00a0Microsoft 365 partner site<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are incredibly enthusiastic about Microsoft 365 and how it will help customers and partners drive growth and innovation.\u00a0To learn more about Microsoft 365, please visit\u00a0Microsoft.com\/Microsoft-365<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014Kirk Koenigsbauer <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. Today at\u00a0Inspire, Satya Nadella unveiled\u00a0Microsoft 365, which brings together Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security, delivering a complete, intelligent and secure solution to empower employees. It represents a fundamental shift in how we will design, build and go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"content-type":[146],"product":[158,148,189,190],"audience":[193,214],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content-type-news","product-enterprise-mobility-security","product-microsoft-365","product-windows","product-windows-10","audience-enterprise","audience-small-business"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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