SharePoint Online is a cloud-based service from Microsoft which comes as a part of Office 365. It provides enterprise content management features and helps organizations to connect, share and collaborate within the team, with business partners and customers.
Office 365 provides SharePoint feature in terms of SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online is a perfect tool for collaboration and document management for your organization. You can create sites quickly for your team to collaborate, maintain documents, work with lists, announcements, blogs, and so on. Moreover, you can take advantage of check-in and check out features, see various versions of documents, and do much more. You can also share your documents with external users through SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online is tightly integrated with the Office products and you can work with the Word document and then publish to SharePoint Online directly from Word.
Organizations can benefit a lot by using SharePoint Online. Here are a few benefits:
• No hardware, software license costs for SharePoint Online: As an organization, you can access SharePoint Online sites anytime, anywhere and from any devices like a laptop, mobile, and tablet. You do not need to make any hardware or software licenses for it. Organizations can save costs in terms of licensing, hardware, administrators, and maintenance costs. Microsoft will take care of the maintenance cost rather than your organization. You just need to use SharePoint.
• Share with external users: You can share SharePoint Online with your internal as well as external users, customers, or vendors. External users do not have a license to your Office 365 subscription, but they can still access SharePoint online sites with a Microsoft account.
• Stay up-to-date with SharePoint Online: Microsoft releases a lot of new features in SharePoint Online regularly. If you are using SharePoint Online, you will get updated features regularly by Microsoft.
The usage of SharePoint Online has spread worldwide in this modern era because of its user-friendly interface that enables you to drag and drop the file you want to save on the cloud. Moreover, it keeps your files secured and makes them available for you each time you need them urgently.
If you want to get started with SharePoint Online, then check out our book "SharePoint Online Modern Experience Practical Guide". This book is a comprehensive guide that lets you explore the Modern features of SharePoint Online. Do check out, if it interests you.
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