More businesses are moving their critical business applications to the cloud. These cloud-based applications work on a subscription basis and are a way of having all your company’s information in one place.
If you haven’t moved to the cloud, we always recommend starting with Office 365 to manage your business. Office 365 doesn’t just have email, they have so many other apps that are included in your subscription and are on par with well-known business apps.
If you’re already paying for Office 365, check out these other apps in your subscription:
Teams
With Slack gaining popularity among business users, Microsoft has been able to see what features users like most and incorporate them into their chat application. Teams is the result of a lot of research and continues to offer improved features that might just leave the competition behind.
When you have a choice between paying for an additional chat app like Slack and getting access to one that is already included in a subscription you are paying for, it’s almost a no-brainer.
OneNote
While this note taking/keeping application has been around for a long time, it is still one of the best places to keep notebooks of information. The ability to organize your notes into various notebooks, groupings, and pages makes it feel like a binder.
This application is a perfect place to keep training materials, documentation about various processes within the company, and even standard weekly meeting notes. Once you start using OneNote, you may not be able to stop.
Microsoft To Do
Another more recent addition to Microsoft’s offering is their robust To Do list application. Much like Teams, To Do is constantly being updated with features that people have been requesting. While it had a rocky start with its lackluster feature set, the latest version has just about everything you want in a To Do list application.
You can group tasks into different topics, add subtasks to any To Do item, and even create recurring tasks. These tasks will automatically sync up with Outlook, so you can view your items from any location.
Planner
This application is another copycat of a popular business tool. This time Microsoft is going after project management applications like Trello.
Much like those applications, you have the ability to organize your project with Kanban boards they call buckets. It also includes charts that help you visualize the overall progress on the project.
Flow
To take on If This Then That or Zapier, Microsoft has also developed a workflow tool, aptly named Flow.
There are a ton of templates already created to browse through and choose from like automatically saving email attachments to OneDrive. You are also able to tie it into other apps that are not Microsoft products to help you become super productive.
Spending some time looking through apps included in your Office 365 subscription could end up saving you some serious money. Before you cancel your other subscriptions though, make sure the apps have the features you use frequently.
You can bet that Microsoft will continue to put significant effort into developing these apps to compete with the other popular enterprise level cloud services that already exist.
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