Office 365 Planning and Purchase

Abstract

Office 365 is a family of products grouped under a common name: Office 365. When we walk into a grocery store and down the soup aisle, we may see cans of Campbell’s and Progresso soups. Each company offers a set of different products under its label. They both produce similar but different cream of mushroom and chicken noodle soups. Microsoft and Google are comparable to different soup manufacturers; they offer different hosted services. Microsoft Office 365 is the brand of a suite of products composed of Office 365 ProPlus (installed Office), Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online voice communications (see Figure 3-1).