Office 365® has actually become a standard and one of the basic tools for office work in most enterprises. Today we will tell you a few words about how you can significantly improve your team’s workflow by using Office 365® for your workflow.

What is Office 365®?

Office 365® is a collection of cloud-based applications that are used not only by businesses, but also by home users. The service primarily includes:

Always up-to-date version of Microsoft Office® (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook).
SharePoint® platform, which allows you to share documents and information with colleagues.
OneDrive® service, a shared cloud drive that allows multiple people to work on a single document (operating on a similar principle to Google Drive)

How does Office 365® improve workflow?

Let’s start with specifics. Implementing a good workflow tool integrated with Office 365® into your company will allow you to increase work efficiency by up to 80%. Why so much? Think about how much time you have to spend uploading, downloading, saving, creating new versions of documents and coordinating their creation, review and approval. With the right tools at their disposal, each person involved in the creation of a document will be able to focus solely on the substantive contribution to its creation. All the rest will be taken care of by the software.

Office 365® allows, first of all, many people to work on the same document, which eliminates the need to create several versions of the same file. The package also gives you the opportunity for several people to work simultaneously on the same document. You can see the same effect in the Google Drive service.

The package improves not only internal work. It also allows you to share prepared files with contractors – including those who do not use Office 365® themselves. All you need to do is send a link, the click of which will redirect directly to a specific file in the cloud.

Office 365® is entirely accessible through a browser – so each user can access it from anywhere in the world. Have you gone on a business trip without your laptop, and a colleague has asked you to review a document? You can seamlessly open and read it on your smartphone with just a few clicks.

When choosing an electronic workflow for your company, it is worth opting for one that is fully integrated with Office 365®. This condition is met by the Hatiroo platform, among others (learn more about our workflow system).

If your company uses Office 365®, it’s worth considering how to make 100% use of the capabilities of this service. Implementing it for your workflow is a prime example. Want to learn more? Feel free to contact us.