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Table ofContents

01ProblemStatement

02BusinessChallenges

03 Solution

04 Exchange Online

05 Lync Online

06 SharePoint Online

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ProblemStatementIT is facing increased pressure to deliver agile solutions toend users that are mobile, secure, and scalable. More and

more are turning to the Cloud to provide these solutions.

Some of these reasons include productivity gains,

elimination of hardware, and reduced IT support, planning,

and implementation labor.

“Office 365 delivered an ROI of 321% with a payback periodof 2 months for the composite midsize organization”

– Forrester Research

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BusinessChallenges

A large percentage of to

part of their day away fr

sitting at their desks, the

resources that make the

being away from their d

the same location as th

important for all of these

allow them to collaborat

Providing solutions to th

infrastructure that place

multiple servers, and req

The ever-evolving lands

with the increasing freq

attacks from spam, viru

reactive, IT also has to d

with integrating these se

and ease of use.

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SolutionBy combining the Office Platform that drives today’s

businesses with the capabilities of the cloud, the enterprise is

capable of providing reliable collaboration services that allow

users to be productive anywhere, anytime, from any devices.

Office 365 is made up of four major parts: Exchange Online,

SharePoint Online, Lync Online, and Office Professional

Plus 2013. It is through these tools that users can leverage

the Office tools they are familiar with to collaborate in real

time through email, instant messaging, voice, video, shared

documents and more. This collaboration can be accomplished

no matter where the user may be located. Office 365 provides

a unified experience across platform and device allowing for

the most flexible and comprehensive work scenarios

available today.

All of these services are hosted in Microsoft’s global

datacenters, freeing up IT to focus on adding value

back to the organization.

“Office 365 frees uto invest in growin

—Randy Clemons, M

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Exchange Online

External SMTP servers

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange

Edge TransportRouting and AV/AS

Outlook(local user)

Phone System(PBX or VOIP)

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Mobile phone

Web browser

Outlook(remote user)

Enterprise Network 

AD

Microsoft Exchange has

mail, calendar, and cont

traditionally had a releas

the current version, Exc

simplify the architecture

remains complex. It reqand capital resources to

application internally.

In an Office 365 deploym

a highly available, geo-re

environment provides e

space and unlimited spa

“It costs us a considerable amouour Exchange servers. With Excand we gain time to perform oth

– Travis Morrison, New Belgium B

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SharePoint Online

Fault tolerance for simple workloads with small volumes of content

Two tiers:• Combine front-end and batch processing servers• Database servers

Scale the number of servers as needed.

Front end andbatch processing

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OfficeProfessional Plus

Microsoft Office makes up the fourth pillar of Office

365. Office Professional Plus distributed through

Office 365 is the same Office suite delivered through

traditional licensing models but with a twist. A major

focus area of Office 365 is to provide solutions for the

modern workforce that no longer adheres to the single

device model. Often users will have a laptop, desktop,

tablet, phone and home computer. Office Pro Plus in

Office 365 shifts from a per installation model to a per

user model. Each user has the ability to install Office Pro

Plus on up to 5 devices.

The change to the licensin

While this can be controlle

added the ability fo

from the Office 3

App-V streaming

complete, users l

to authenticate tthe company or t

version of Office

valid username is

the need for Offic

The change to the distr

changes the way that soft

released every 30 days, ju

platform. These updates a

clients again leveraging th

notification that an updat

available the next time the

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Benefits• Office 365 extends the O

businesses. A locally ins

based versions.

• Enterprise mail, calenda

from any modern platfo

• Enterprise-class securit

layers of security all bac

• Collaborate with one or

with voice, video, docum

• Collaborate with both in

providing the security ne

“Everybody can use the sameto view and make modificatiothem and forward them on at

—Michelle Aitken, Administrativ

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Call to ActionTry Office 365 through a FastTrack Pilot. The FastTrack

methodology allows an organization to try Office 365

but when they decide to move forward the stages build

out and no effort is lost. This methodology provides a

smooth transition between trying Office 365 and full

implementation.

Schedule a time for Geocent to discuss your environment

and talk about what a full Office 365 deployment would

look like in your environment.

Engage Geocent to leverage the Planning Service Days

that were purchased with your EA to develop a full

migration plan for your team to execute or for us to work

with you to deploy.

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About Geocent

Metairie, LA (Corporate HQ) | New Orleans, LA | Baton Rouge, LA

Geocent is a full service in

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consultants that are expe

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of functional areas. Our cl

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expertise to meet a wide r

engineering needs for diff

Stennis, MS | Charlesto

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ContactGeocentContact your Geocent sales representative

today to discuss your environment and talk

about what a full Office 365 deployment

would look like in your environment.

Visit our website atwww.geocent.com/whitepapersto view more.

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