More and more businesses are looking to save costs and move their systems to the cloud. This includes everything from email to lines of business. This is where the world is going and it makes sense from a mobility and cost saving point of view, but with everything new there come new risks that must be considered and prepared for.

We get asked all the time, how will things be different when someone is using Office 365? Well, here’s what your day could look like if you take advantage of Cloud-based email.

After getting ready in the morning…

You look at your calendar on your mobile phone or tablet to see what you have scheduled today.

Most businesses today are familiar with Microsoft Exchange and all of the benefits that come with it. The problem is most businesses are also worried about change and never want to leave what they know, which is stopping them from moving to a cloud-based email system such as Office 365.

When we sit down with clients to discuss the opportunity available to them by using Office 365 and all of the benefits that come with this solution the first thing they say is that they don’t want, can’t or are scared to learn a new system.

In my career I have been exposed to a wide range of software solutions for common business challenges with programs like ACT, Maximizer or Goldmine being selected and installed within the network. Other businesses have developed arrays of spreadsheets and/or local database applications to handle these tasks.

Organizations big and small are quickly migrating their email to Microsoft’s Office 365 to take advantage of the many benefits of Cloud-hosted email. An Office 365 migration is a big move however and should not be taken lightly or you could experience IT problems for weeks or even months afterwards.

Microsoft is strongly encouraging its customers (pretty much everyone who owns a PC) to move to their Cloud-based Office 365 service for email and other Microsoft applications. In fact, there are now more organizations in North America hosting their email with Microsoft than not.

It is very simple for him. He grabs Mommy or Daddy’s iPad, puts in the password and opens up Netflix. Whatever children’s show he feels like watching is available on demand and plays from some remote computer.

While his parents are pretty tech-savvy, they don’t need to be.

Business owners and charities are looking to Cloud computing regularly now to improve their efficiency, lower costs and better achieve goals.

But when you listen to many Cloud providers, moving applications, services or hardware to the Cloud sounds like it’s a piece of cake.

I discovered something interesting the other day that I didn’t know. You can edit PDFs using Microsoft Word.

There are many people out there who don’t know about this and are paying extra money to buy software they do not need. The most common thing people will do to edit PDFs is buy Adobe Acrobat because the free Adobe Reader software only allows you to view PDFs, not edit them.