Microsoft has said it will launch Office 365 across Africa for the first time. The countries will access the features of the new technology commercially.
It yesterday launched Office 365 in Kenya and Nigeria. The cloud feature software will be very useful to business people in the African countries.
The software, which has been on trial in 40 countries abroad and responded positively, is expected to roll into more African markets “very soon.”
This will target Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), which will offer important and easy accessible to information to many local companies for business development.
The software facilitates efficiency in communication, file sharing and managing, office website application, email and calendars, and security.
Microsoft’s marketing and operations director Melanie Botha said cloud-based solutions such as Office 365 can help businesses lower capital expenditure productivity tools to its users tools to users with “appropriate layers of security and compliance”
Botha singled out South Africa as a ready market for Office 365 as it has enhanced bandwidth resources that allow easier adaptability.
Microsoft intends to make the Office 365 “very affordable” although it says this will depend on the user’s option.
This will differ since Active Directory synchronization and SharePoint support will cost more amounts, it says.
The software plus services offers products from Microsoft Corporation inclusive of professional for organization of less than 25 members on business purpose.
The first software of its kind was first used in late June last year.
Those interested in education and government matters can get the relevant facts in the academic institutions and government agencies.
The month-to-month subscription, which consists of online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and Lynk in e-mail delivery, document management and communication services irrespective of size will be beneficial to SMEs.
Microsoft has this year showed intentions to enhance Africa’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector. It supplied Software worth of R750-million to government schools in South Africa to boost e-learning.
Late last year,Microsoft East and Southern Africa established a Virtual Academy to provide training in Microsoft Cloud Technologies in an effort to improve the level of professionalism in Information and Technology( IT).
