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The 4 Reasons why Facebook moved to Office 365

At Microsoft's most recent Worldwide Partner Conference, Facebook CIO Tim Campos announced their decision to move to Microsoft Office 365 for all their employees because "The ’ e etti g o Mi osoft a d the Office 365 cloud."

This e l a ui ed, assi e a ou t fo Mi osoft is ’t ithout h Campos mentioned 4 primary reasons for their move.

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1- Campos mentioned that they need the speed to make things happen at Facebook more now than they ever have before – and Office 365 allows the this a ilit to o e fast .

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Going all in with the cloud based app to gain access to the classics like Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

2- The secondary factor that influenced their decision, as mentioned by Campos, is the need to have applications that work on every device at any ti e. Be ause Mi osoft’s apps a e the est at a o plishi g this to date – Campos simply had no better alternative.

This is also important for Microsoft of course as it accounts for more than a fourth of their total revenue – their biggest money maker by far.

3- The third reason Facebook moved to Office 365 is the ability Microsoft gives companies to compute massive stores of data. As we all know, Facebook is gathering nearly infinite stores of data at all times and this of course is a hefty requirement. Microsoft offers this through several intelligence-d i e tools like Del e, E ha ge a d the e lutte algorithm.

Although using Microsoft is nothing new for Facebook, this represents them stepping out of the old days of out-of-the-box software and into the cloud based Office 365.

4- I Ca pos’ o ds, the sa that Mi osoft’s Offi e 3 eets their most strict security standards. Even with the demand to be as flexible as possible, they find that Microsoft keeps their IT safe from hacking attempts.

One thing to note – this is happening after a series of previous small partnerships with Facebook so, doubtless no one will be surprised when they make a major move together in the future.

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