SharePoint Online offers a comprehensive collaboration solution that includes:
- Self-service SharePoint site creation with online discussion areas, shared document and meeting workspaces, document libraries with version control, and surveys.
- Out-of-the-box content management features for documents, records, and web content.
- Ability to find people, expertise, and content by searching sites across the entire organization.
- Integration with Microsoft Office 2010, enabling users to interact with SharePoint sites without leaving Microsoft Office applications; two-way synchronization available with documents that are stored on SharePoint sites.
- Enhanced security for Internet access by using 1024-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption and antivirus scanning.
- Directory trust with your Active Directory® service, which provides pass-through authentication for users.
- Scalable to thousands of sites within an organization, enabling managers delegate site creation to others.
- Self-service document restore and data recovery.
- Custom solution support, providing a process for developing, reviewing, and deploying your customized SharePoint Online solutions.
- Presence integration for customers that subscribe to the Microsoft Lync™ Online service, or that host Microsoft Lync Server 2010 on their premises.
- Partner access for customers to enable their partners or users outside their organization to access their SharePoint sites for collaboration purposes.
- Support for data loss protection (DLP) solutions that scan content and ensure users to not send sensitive information to unauthorized people.
- Migration services for customers that use older versions of SharePoint Server. Working with our partners, Microsoft can help you develop a strategy for planning and assessing migration, outline the risks, and facilitate migration activities.
- Additional custom solutions—SharePoint Online offers low-cost support for customers that require additional custom solution deployments beyond the initial number provided with the service.
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a Microsoft Office 365 service for businesses of all sizes. Instead of installing and deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server on-premises, any business can now simply subscribe to SharePoint Online to provide their employees with an enterprise-grade solution for creating sites to share documents and information with colleagues and customers.
SharePoint Online helps businesses of all sizes to:
- Work together effectively. Share your team’s documents and track project milestones to keep everyone in sync.
- Keep documents up to date. Manage your team’s important documents online so the latest versions are always at hand.
- Easily access information online. Provide everyone on the team with access to critical business information when and where they need it.
- Easily protect critical business information. Control who can access read and share documents and information.
SharePoint Online also works with familiar Microsoft Office applications. It’s easy to create Office documents and save them directly to SharePoint Online, or co-author documents with Microsoft Office Web Apps. Users can access important documents offline or from familiar mobile devices, and set document-level permissions to protect sensitive content.