Interactive Website Development (MS Office 365)
An Interactive Website enables your marketing team to develop and change themselves a website so that any company information can be entered online at anytime and be available to everybody.
Such a website also enables your marketing team to enable portals where information can be uploaded and shared with other employees, customers and suppliers.
All this will be more detailed in the following sections:
MS Office 365: Sharepoint Online
Summary
Microsoft Office 365 consists mainly of MS Sharepoint Online (development of public websites and portals), MS Exchange Online (email hosting) and MS Lync (video webconferencing and online chatting). MS Sharepoint Online enables a company to create its own web domain, create email accounts for that domain, and to create a powerful public (internet) website. An intranet website and an extranet website comes with it automatically. The following video shows you how easy it is to develop a public website:
When to use it?
Microsoft Office 365 Sharepoint Online is of great value in the following cases:
Company wants a good-looking even a fancy website that can be updated easily by its own people
Company wants a website that also has a simple employee portal (intranet) and/or a customer portal (extranet) where information can be shared securely
Company wants to set up a quick interactive website for a specific product or event (marketing campaign, seminar series, roadshow, sales meeting, project launch, etc.)
Company wants to start with a simple website and simple portals that can be migrated to a complex website and portals using MS Sharepoint Online (Sharepoint Designer, Lightswitch, Visual Studio)
The great value consists of the following benefits
Company can have its own people update the website so that new information becomes quickly available and is universal and consistent. No more dubious messages from different departments
Employees can share information online securely for projects, meeting, marketing campaigns, events, etc. No more calling in for customer contact information, event schedules, meeting specifics, etc. . Customer and prospect information will up to date and correct when the sales manager enters it.
- Prospects and customers of your company can see their quotes, contracts and timelines online in the customer portal. They can submit simple requests for support or service.
Features
MS Office 365 Sharepoint Online enables you to do the following items:
Our company can set up a MS Office 365 account with your domain, set up user ids and email ids, build your interactive website using MS Office 365, train you to maintain it, and suppport you. Besides using templates to build websites, other web2.0 features can be added to your site such as:
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) which enables you to send information automatically to people who subscribe to your feed.
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Enable a website visitor to transfer a webpage to his/her Facebook page, his/her Linked in page or Twitter page. See this website's home page.
Your website and your MS Office files are stored on very, very secure servers in a Microsoft data center. All servers are protected against hackers, viruses and malware with the latest firewalls, filters, security software. Access to those servers remotely is protected with complex sign on procedures. Local access to the servers is secured via biometrics. All your information is backed up daily on several servers. Backup centers offsite are in place. Such a data center is the most secure and most modern place you can imagine.
Demos
Click on the video link below to get a general overview of MS Office 365 Sharepoint Online for developing websites.
- Online Store Examples (3rd party add-on solutions)
- Business Applications Demos
Example Websites
Websites built with MS Office Live Small Business can range from simple websites to more advanced websites graphic-wise. Using tables one can build a total different layout than the standard ones presented. It is possible to develop webpages in XLST or CSS using the advanced design features. Example sites are given below.
Websites that have been designed and developed by our company using MS Office Live for Small Business are as follows:
Advanced websites (advanced graphics)
All above websites are in full production, and generating a substantial amount of prospects every month. The Microsoft Office 365 Sharepoint Online features are being used constantly by the employees (sales, customer service and support), customers and suppliers. The integration with MS Outlook and the Hosted VoIP (RingCentral) avoids duplicate date entry of customers and suppliers. Running email marketing campaigns is a monthly event enabled by this tool.
Customer Success Stories
The following stories (demos) show you how customers benefitted from using MS Office 365:
Benefits
The benefits are as follows:
Cost savings:
Saving a lot of money on website maintenance since you can do it yourself, or if you need us to help you, maintenance costs will be much cheaper witn MS Office Live
You have control of the website content online at anytime from anywhere
Managing your contacts, your documents, your calendars, your email and your teams is so much easier and faster because of the Contact Manager, Document Manager and Team Manager
All your employees have access to the right data at anytime from anywhere. Sharing data online and collaborating online is a huge time saver.
Revenue generation
Now you will be able to keep up with your contacts since you have Contact Manager that enables to enter all your contact data and update it as your contacts go from prospect to customer to referring customer.
Prospects come to your website, and submit themselves their contact information and request.Such a request is emailed to you on your smartphone.
Pricing
The price to develop an interactive website depends on the following items:
Our company will provide you a quote based on your general requirements.
Training
A list of one hour videos can be seen at http://community.office365.com/enus/office365/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/archive/2010/12/10/teched-europe-wrapup.aspx
You can see that all this information comes from: http://community.office365.com .
Another source of information is at : http://www.bing.com/search?q=office365%20microsoft&form=MSSRPD
Product Reviews
Product reviews of MS Office 365 are given below: