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365Simple

The Solution for Your Future Workplace

365Simple – The Solution for Your Future Workplace

Today’s workplace is no longer defined by traditional boundaries. The workforce of today wants – and needs – to communicate and collaborate with one another on the devices of their choice, in the time zones of their choice and in the office spaces of their choice. This kind of business evolution, paired with a growing digital maturity and advanced technologies, brings the need to organizations to change rapidly to capture the value in alignment with the intended business outcome. At the same time, the focus of many IT departments has shifted away from maintaining a functional environment to transform complete business processes through smart technology investments.

At SoftwareONE, we help you to shift your budget and valuable resources towards those tasks that matter most to your business. Within our 365Simple service, we work with organizations of all sizes to help them build the foundation for increased availability through sustainable support to get the most out of their Microsoft 365 investment. Free-up time and resources so you can focus on the digital transformation journey of your organization and improve business productivity, optimize costs and reduce risks.

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Preparing Your Organization for Business Success

With IT responsibilities changing, budget priorities shifting and focus increasing on costs, user experience, security, governance and compliance, IT workers have to find a way to deliver these more effectively without tying a significant part of their resources and budget into it. This results in business needs that require a special skill and services set to help your organization innovate and prepare for the future.

365Simple Business Outcomes

365Simple – Fully Boost Your Future Workplace

To go from A to Z in terms of the Digitalization, you first need to enable employees to work proficiently in their new cloud environment and keep all tools and platforms available. That’s not simply activating Microsoft 365 and deciding on the right support model, but also enabling the productivity workloads that will drive your business results toward your defined goals, setting the right security parameters and making sure your employees adapt and adopt all new features that have been implemented.

Based on your individual business need our 365Simple service helps you embrace the benefits of Microsoft 365 and reduce the user and operational complexity. We do this by providing you different service tiers to choose from based on your desired business outcomes.

    • Increase Workload Adoption

    365Simple Premium includes the tailored SoftwareONE Adoption and Change Management (ACM) Framework and the SoftwareONE Learning World with scenario-based learning for licensed users within the Subscription.

    • Prescriptive guidance to customer: 
      • Data analysis & value-oriented recommendations
    • Recommendations based on PROSCI and SoftwareONE methodologies
    • Communication planning for end-users learning
    • Training content fully integrated into Office applications (Learning World)
    • Customer ACM Core Team engagement
      • Definition of responsibilities for Customer nominated adoption and change management core team (Customer ACM Core Team)

    Manage Your Cloud Spend & Optimize Your Microsoft 365 Investments

    PyraCloud is a single-point of access to your entire software estate. PyraCloud gives you a proactive and holistic visibility into the full software and cloud resources; continuously analyzing, providing insights and optimizing the entire portfolio:

    • PyraCloud licensing overview
    • Contract and license management portal
    • Global purchasing possibilities with customer specific catalogue and pricing
    • Adoption reporting and workload usage
    • Cost optimization via tagging and charge backs
    • Licensing cost dashboard
    • Centralized visibility across subscriptions

    Prepare your business for the unprepared – Enable Microsoft 365 and EM+S security configurations based on recommended practices

    365Simple Premium includes SoftwareONE Security Engineers providing an overview of the Microsoft 365 security features outlined below and walking you through our recommended security configurations which we can also customize to meet your specific requirements:

    • Remote session facilitation to provide an overview of the Microsoft 365 security and EM+S features
    • Onboarding session to facilitate recommended security configurations
    • Implementation of recommended security configuration policies at setup
    • Enable security alerts in accordance with customer requirements
    • Ongoing security review as part of the Service Success Manager business review meeting

    Location-based Heartbeat Monitoring – Preparing you for incidents before they happen

    SoftwareONE will setup and configure health monitoring service so you are prepared to react on any quality changes. 

    • Management of robots to perform simulated user scenario testing for historical performance
    • Availability to deploy additional robots for testing and monitoring from multiple customer specific locations
    • Alerting capabilities to notify when service impacts are happening uniquely to your tenant
    • Insights on service performance and alerting to performance and alerting of:
      • Microsoft Team
      • Microsoft Exchange Online
      • Microsoft SharePoint
      • OneDrive for Business
    • Access to real-time and historical dashboards showing performance data

    Support & Escalation – Save time & let the experts have your back

    In case of any unplanned disruption or degradation of service or formal requests that needs to be addressed to your IT Administration, SoftwareONE will respond and report through your authorized representatives. We furthermore provide ownership for escalations through to Microsoft Premier Support for Partners.

    • Up to 24x7 Support Hours (OR)
      • 24x7 (365Simple Premium)
      • 24x5 (365Simple Advanced)
      • 10x5 (365Simple)
    • 30 minutes SLA response for Priority 1
    • Incident & Service Request Management
      • Microsoft 365 and EM+S support
      • Unlimited support tickets for online workloads only
      • Escalation management for issues of support case through the Service Success Manager
      • Ownership for escalations through to Microsoft Premier Support

    Less effort due to complete package

    365Simple is a managed service delivered by SoftwareONE. To deliver the managed service, we must establish a reseller relationship through Microsoft and make sure you are technically set to start using Microsoft 365:

    • 365Simple – Office 365/ Microsoft 365
      CSP license subscription included

    If you use any other licensing model please take a look at our Unified Support for 365 offering.

    • Tenant activation and enablement

    Service Success Manager – Ensuring overall customer satisfaction

    Through structured business reviews SoftwareONE Service Success Managers provide insights into the Incidents and Service Requests, demonstrating performance against SLA and highlighting any trends or learnings that can be taken from the previous interactions. They provide escalation management for issues where you want improved visibility of your support case. 

    • Establish long term strategy for the 365Simple service
    • Point of escalation for priority 1 incidents
    • Regular business review conference call with recommendations
      • Track results and progress on support calls and recommendations
      • PyraCloud spend management analysis
      • Review monthly SLA report
      • Cost optimization recommendations
      • Review Secure Score status with recommendations

    Associated Manager for Change Management – Improving business productivity and efficiency

    The SoftwareONE Associate Consultant for Change Management (ACCM) counsels and guides the implementation of the ACM framework in monthly or bi-weekly online sessions and discusses the current status of the ACM project with the customer.

    • Cadence: Monthly (Advanced), Biweekly (Premium)
    • Analysis Adoption reporting and 365 workload usage based on 365 Analytics & Recommendation Report for ACM
    • Create and update adoption roadmap
    • Best practices & strategic recommendations
    • Quarterly guidance for developing and creating a change management plan

    365Simple is available in three service tiers (365Simple, 365Simple Advanced, 365Simple Premium): 365Simple Premium lets you embrace the advantages of what Microsoft 365 has to offer. Our future workplace professionals support you in bringing your planning to life or guiding you on your next steps. Through Adoption & Change Management we ensure that all IT and business requirements are met. Let us help you to decide on the best service tiers that will help you reach your desired business outcomes.

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    Realize the Full Benefits of Microsoft 365

    Your future workplace is designed to make your organization more agile. It removes the need for costly on-premises technologies and extends your organization's capabilities to communicate, collaborate and share information outside of traditional working silos. With 365Simple, we help you to take complexity out of your work day by creating a stable foundation and helping you pave the way for better collaboration so you can:

    Reduce Complexity

    Increase Availability

    Reduce risk

    Rely On The Global Expert

    Cutting through the complexity of today’s digitized world often requires a reliable and trustworthy partner that always goes the extra mile. At SoftwareONE, we are going above and beyond to help our customers succeed.

    Over 3,400 customers 

    4 million active users on 365Simple/Unified Support globally

    Microsoft Azure Expert MSP / AWS Advanced Consulting Partner

    600 Future Workplace consultants supported by PROSCI certified
    change management coaches

    12 Service Support Centers, diversified across geographies

    24x7 certified support in multiple languages

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