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I came across a nice review of SharePoint Online by NSI Partners, who are using it themselves. They were looking for a file sharing and document manager solution for their geographically dispersed organization. Sifting through the dozens of solutions out there, they decided upon SharePoint Online for the following reasons:- 1) Backup - The fact that Microsoft backs up all the data stored within SharePoint Online. 2) Beyond file storage - SharePoint Online offers features much beyond simple file storage, and allows users to create custom sites, workspaces, manage calendars, forums etc. All these can serve an important purpose in distributed teamwork. 3) Presence Awareness - Presence awareness features allow SharePoint Online users to see if other users have signed in to one of the other Microsoft Online products - Communicator, Outlook, LiveMeeting etc. They can initiate instant messaging sessions with signed in users. 4) Versioning and comments - File collaboration includes versioning and commenting features. This helps teams keep track of document changes and have conversations around each file. 5) Works with MS Office - SharePoint Online mainly allows collaboration on traditional filetypes such MS Word, PowerPoint etc. SharePoint Online is ideal for companies which word in an MS Office context (such as NSI partners). In all fairness, there are many online collaboration software or alternatives to SharePoint Online which offer the above features. But Microsoft's visibility, and trust with enterprises works in its favor.
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