How do I handle major objections to Office 365? <Presenter>Microsoft
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How do I handle major objections to Office 365?
Drumbeat: Office 365 Sales Readiness for Enterprise Partners
Cloud Trust & Security
Data Sovereignty
Service Updates & Continuity
All other objections
Office 365 Customer Objections
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“The cloud is new to me. The unknowns and perceived risks are daunting and make me distrustful of the cloud.”
Cloud Trust and Security
Security Best-in-class security with over a decade of experience building Enterprise software & online services
Physical and data security with access control, encryption and strong authentication
Security best practices like penetration testing, defense-in-depth approach to protect against cyber-threats
Unique customer controls with Rights Management Services to empower customers to protect informationCompliance Commitment to industry standards and organizational compliance
Enable customers to meet global compliance standards in ISO 27001, EUMC, HIPAA, FISMA
Contractually commit to privacy, security and handling of customer data through Data Processing Agreements
Admin Controls like Data Loss Prevention, Legal Hold, E-Discovery to enable organizational compliance
Privacy Privacy by design with a commitment to use customers’ information only to deliver services
No mining of data for advertising
Transparency with the location of customer data, who has access and under what circumstances
Privacy controls to regulate sharing of sites, libraries, folders and communications with external parties
Office 365 trustBuilt-in capabilities and customer controls
The Office 365 Trust CenterThe place where Microsoft shares our commitments and information on trust-related topicshttp://trust.office365.com
Data Sovereignty“I don’t know how MY data is handled and secured in the cloud. I am concerned that my data is not kept private and can be accessed without my knowledge.” Responding to government legal demands for customer data
Privacy authorities across Europe approve Office 365 privacy commitments
Responding to government legal demands for customer data
Privacy authorities across Europe approve Office 365 privacy commitments
“I don’t understand how Office 365 service updates are managed and what happens if there is a service interruption. I am unsure of my role and how I am notified.”
Service Updates and Continuity
Message Center
Office 365 Services Description
Services Update Wiki
Office 365 Message Center
Vision: single source for customer service communications
Recent improvementsBell notification recent improvements
NS for new messages
Tenant-specific message targeting
V3 improvementsNew message types for service changes and general awareness information
Message filtering added to help sort the different message types
Office 365 Service Descriptions
Office 365 Technology Blog
Drumbeat: Office 365 Sales Readiness for Partners
3. Become a Cloud Partnerwww.microsoftcloudpartner.com
2. Get your Office 365 demo tenant set upwww.microsoftofficedemos.com
1. Join the Office 365 Partner Yammer groupyammer.com/office365partners
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