Managed Services
With our Azure Managed services, businesses can achieve their digital transformation goals by utilizing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions. Additionally, our Out-sourced IT services give businesses access to skilled IT professionals who can address their technology needs whenever required. Our Migration services ensure a seamless transition to new technologies, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365, owned by Microsoft, is a comprehensive suite of productivity software, cloud-based services, and collaboration tools.
The Microsoft 365 family includes online services like Outlook.com, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, as well as the familiar Microsoft Office applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) available on various platforms, including Windows, macOS, mobile devices, and the web.
Additionally, Microsoft 365 includes enterprise solutions like Exchange Server, SharePoint, and Yammer. It encompasses subscription plans that provide access to these products, which may include desktop and mobile software licenses, as well as hosted email and intranet services.
MICROSOFT TEAMS
Microsoft Teams is an effective tool for businesses to enhance collaboration and accomplish objectives.
It empowers teams to effortlessly collaborate and communicate, regardless of their geographic location.
MS Teams as a core service, assisting you in maximizing its potential for increased team efficiency and effectiveness.
MS Teams facilitates virtual meetings, file-sharing, real-time document collaboration, chat communication, appointment scheduling, and screen sharing. It integrates seamlessly with Outlook and SharePoint, simplifying workflow and consolidating communication.
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Exchange Online(Microsoft 365)
Microsoft 365 includes Microsoft Exchange Online, which is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application. It functions as a cloud-based version of Microsoft Exchange Server, providing hosted messaging services. Users can access their email, calendar, contacts, and tasks across various devices, such as PCs, web browsers, and mobile devices.
Benefits of Using Exchange Online:
- Microsoft Exchange Online simplifies deployment and maintenance by leveraging the cloud and relying on a third party for hardware and software services.
- Exchange Online allows anytime, anywhere access to emails and coordination through various platforms, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity even during power outages.
- Features like conversation view and instant access to contact information make managing emails efficient and user-friendly.
- The shared calendar feature simplifies scheduling and allows easy collaboration with colleagues, friends, and family.
- With ample storage per user and shared mailboxes, there’s no need to worry about deleting emails to free up space.
- Data loss prevention features, email encryption, and anti-spam/anti-malware protection enhance email security and protect sensitive information.
- Integration with SharePoint and Skype for Business enables archiving, hold, and eDiscovery functionality.
- eDiscovery allows searching and exporting data across SharePoint and other platforms for legal purposes.
- In-place archive and large mailboxes keep important data in one place, giving users the flexibility to retain or archive emails.
- Built-in defense mechanisms and malware protection in Exchange actively safeguard communications against email threats.
- The unified contact store brings together all contacts into one place, reducing duplication and streamlining professional networks.
- User photos can be stored and managed using Outlook Web App, SharePoint, or Skype for Business.
- Modern public folders provide a hierarchy mailbox, content mailbox, and read-only copy of the public folder hierarchy for easy organization.
- Exchange Online allows businesses to transition to the cloud at their own pace, offering options for on-premises and online email storage.
One Drive:
OneDrive is the Microsoft cloud service that connects you to all your files. It lets you store and protect your files, share them with others, and get to them from anywhere on all your devices.
Benefits Offered:
- OneDrive provides free storage of 5GB, with an additional 1TB available through a Microsoft 365 subscription. Referrals can earn users up to 15GB of extra space.
- OneDrive offers reliable uptime with a fault-tolerant system, ensuring 99.97% availability of data.
- The platform enables flexible file sharing with encrypted security, allowing administrators to control access privileges and set timed document access.
- OneDrive ensures easy file accessibility across various devices and operating systems, with options to pause syncing on metered connections and intelligent algorithms suggesting relevant files.
- Efficient document management is facilitated by OneDrive, eliminating the need for multiple document versions and providing clear indications of edits and changes made by collaborators.
SharePoint:
SharePoint Online, a web-based application, facilitates collaboration and information sharing within organizations. It serves as the cloud-based counterpart to SharePoint On-Premises, providing users with seamless content storage, sharing, and management capabilities. SharePoint Online is accessible as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, integrated with an Office 365 subscription.
SharePoint online is subscription-based and is licensed on a per-user basis.
SharePoint OnlineV/s Share Point on Premise:
SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises are distinct products with similar features.
SharePoint On-Premises, or SharePoint Server, is hosted locally by the company and entails server management and costs.
On the other hand, SharePoint Online relies on Microsoft’s cloud environment, eliminating the need for hardware purchases and reducing implementation costs.
SharePoint Online uses the cloud environment hosted by Microsoft. The online version doesn’t require the purchase or maintenance of new hardware, which has little or no impact on implementation costs.
SharePoint Online Benefits :
- Effortless management and cost-effectiveness SharePoint Online, being a cloud-based platform provided by Microsoft, requires no extra management efforts or additional investments in hardware or installations, making it both easy to manage and cost-effective.
- Versatility:
With its numerous capabilities and exceptional adaptability, this collaborative platform serves a variety of purposes. It can function as an internal website for vital company updates and announcements, efficiently coordinate and structure projects, facilitate document management, and facilitate seamless file sharing. Moreover, it allows customization of the interface to suit specific requirements and enables the establishment of social networking platforms to foster employee interactions. - Convenient Accessibility:
Thanks to its cloud-based nature, SharePoint Online enables seamless access to files from any location and device. All you require is a web browser and internet connectivity. This feature enhances collaboration and productivity, ensuring efficient workflow even when you are mobile. - Smooth and Effortless Collaboration:
SharePoint Online offers seamless integration with Microsoft’s suite of business applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It is also compatible with popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. This compatibility enables you to conveniently work on documents within your browser or natively on your desktop, enhancing productivity and providing flexibility in your workflow. - Advanced Security Measures:
SharePoint Online incorporates cutting-edge security functionalities that authenticate users, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive information. It maintains data integrity by optimizing data access and sharing capabilities. Additionally, security configurations can be customized at various levels such as documents, folders, sites, or libraries, providing an added layer of protection and control.
Microsoft Entra ID:
Microsoft Entra ID (previously known as Azure Active Directory) serves as Microsoft’s cloud-based solution for identity and access management, empowering both employees and guest users to securely sign in and access various resources. These resources include Microsoft apps like Microsoft 365 and Azure, as well as a wide range of pre-integrated popular SaaS apps such as ServiceNow and Google apps and any custom-build cloud or on-premises web apps.
It is a market-leading, integrated cloud solution for managing directories, facilitating application access, and safeguarding identities.
It offers security capabilities like single sign-on, multifactor authentication, Conditional Access, and lifecycle management to protect organizations against identity compromise.
Secure Adaptive Access
Ensure your users remain productive and save time managing passwords by offering a quick and effortless sign-in experience throughout your multi-cloud environment, enhancing overall productivity.
Seamless User Experience
Achieve robust protection for resources and data by implementing strong authentication and risk-based adaptive access policies, all while ensuring a seamless user experience.
Microsoft Intune:
Microsoft Intune serves as a cloud-based solution for managing endpoints, facilitating user access to organizational resources, and streamlining the management of applications and devices across multiple platforms. This includes mobile devices, desktop computers, and virtual endpoints, providing a comprehensive approach to endpoint management.
Key features and benefits
- Microsoft Intune allows for the management of both users and devices, including organization-owned and personally owned devices. It provides support for various platforms such as Android, Android Open-Source Project (AOSP), iOS/iPad-OS, Linux Ubuntu Desktop, macOS, and Windows client devices. By utilizing Intune, you can securely access organizational resources on these devices, implementing custom policies to enforce security measures.
- Intune streamlines the management of applications by providing a seamless app experience that encompasses app deployment, updates, and removal. It allows you to connect to and distribute apps from your private app stores, enable Microsoft 365 apps, deploy Win32 apps, establish app protection policies, and effectively manage access to apps and their associated data.
- Intune automates the deployment of policies for apps, security, device configuration, compliance, conditional access, and other tasks. Once the policies are prepared, they can be deployed to user groups and device groups. Internet access is the only requirement for devices to receive these policies.
- Intune seamlessly integrates with mobile threat defense services, such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and third-party partner services. This integration prioritizes endpoint security and allows you to establish policies that actively address threats, conduct real-time risk analysis, and automate remedial actions.
Unified Identity Management
Enhance visibility and control by conveniently managing all your identities and application access from a centralized location, irrespective of whether they are in the cloud or on-premises.
Microsoft Entra ID dominates the market with its comprehensive and integrated cloud-based solution for managing directories, facilitating application access, and safeguarding identities, making it the go-to option for multi-cloud identity and access management.
Identity and Access Management:
Identity and access management guarantees that appropriate individuals, machines, and software components are granted access to the relevant resources in a timely manner. This involves verifying the authenticity of the person, machine, or software component, followed by granting or denying access to specific resources based on established criteria/p>
IAM systems typically offer the following fundamental functionalities:
- Identity management: The process of creating, storing, and managing identity information, including user identities, permissions, and access levels. Identity providers (IdPs) are software solutions used to track and manage user identities.
. - Identity federation: Enables users with existing passwords from external sources (such as enterprise networks or internet/social identity providers) to access the system.
- Provisioning and deprovisioning of users: The creation and management of user accounts, including assigning access to specific resources, permissions, and access levels.
- User authentication: Verifies the identity of a user, machine, or software component. Additional security measures like multi-factor authentication (MFA) or single sign-on (SSO) may be employed.
- User authorization: Ensures that users are granted appropriate levels and types of access to tools and resources. Users can be organized into groups or roles to simplify access management.
- Access control: Determines who or what has access to specific resources, including setting up authentication and authorization mechanisms and defining user roles and permissions.
- Reports and monitoring: Generates reports on platform activities such as sign-in times, accessed systems, and types of authentication. This helps ensure compliance, identify security risks, and gain insights into usage patterns and overall security posture.
