Many companies have employees spread around the world who collaborate online to get their work done.
All kinds of communications tools have become available to help these teams stay connected and on track with their projects which helps as they work towards a common goal and with cloud based storage the old process of sharing and updating documents by email has now become extinct.
Or at least it should be to gain the benefits of collaborating via the cloud. Cloud based storage services like One Drive for Business and modern Office apps allows co-workers to not only work on the same copy of a document at the same time but also eliminates the concerns about making sure they have the latest version of that document.
Sharing documents via email used to create a lot of this confusion and bump up against other limitations such as creating a document that is too large to be sent as an email attachment or worrying that company data will be safe once it is sent out by email.
To address these limitations and concerns cloud storage helps eliminate those concerns through data protection tools and being able to share a document directly from cloud storage with just a link including controlling exactly who has access to the item for viewing and editing permissions.
A new eBook from the Microsoft Office team, available here and requires brief registration process, will assist your team in learning the full benefits of cloud based collaboration in the Microsoft ecosystem.
The 12 page, 12.4MB PDF file focuses on four key areas:
- Collaboration in a single document by the entire team
- Seamlessly send large files via links instead of email attachments
- Online or Offline access to documents from where you are
- Sharing files with full control of who has access for editing or just viewing
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