By David Roe  – Office 365 for business is a Microsoft subscription service that includes access to Office applications and online productivity services, as well as business services such as web conferencing, hosted email, and online storage.  However, Microsoft keeps adding new tools and services in response to enterprise need, but are workers using all of them?  We talked to several enterprises to see what part of Office 365 is working for them, and, in some cases what they would like to see added to the productivity suite in the future.

Hunter Willis, product marketing manager at Jersey City-based AvePoint shared that traditionally Exchange and One Drive have been very important, but as Microsoft continues to roll out features in Office 365, SharePoint and the Power Platform along with Teams have become increasingly important for productivity. Demand for mobile accessibility and enabling the modern digital workplace has shifted the focus and nature of collaboration to be much more reliant on chat interfaces.

‘Power Platform’ is a collective term for three Microsoft products: Power BI, PowerApps and Flow. They provide the means to help people easily manipulate, surface, automate and analyze data and can be used with Office 365 and Dynamics 365.

In addition, the speed and pace that is required by less structured work processes and the diversification of workforce talents require a faster pace of productivity. The power of chat-based collaboration coupled with the search and data organization tools that come with SharePoint are extremely enabling when it comes to rapid collaboration productivity. Read On: