Is Business Premium the right Microsoft 365 choice for your organisation?

Microsoft offers a range of different licencing options when it comes to Microsoft 365. How do you know which is right for your business? The Grant McGregor team explains your options. 

Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based service which gives you access to Microsoft’s most essential business applications. Here’s a guide to the different options available. We’ll also explain why we recommend Business Premium.

What are my Microsoft 365 options?

Microsoft offers two different options for your Microsoft 365 licencing for small and mid-size businesses:

• Business Standard
• Business Premium

With Business Standard, you’ll get Email, Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive and the Office applications (Word, Outlook, Excel, etc)

The big difference comes into play when you upgrade to Business Premium. As well as all the apps and services included with Business Standard, you’ll also get world-class security tools and applications which enable you to update, manage and protect your devices. It is these advanced security and device management tools which make Business Premium our preferred choice for any organisation.

Note that with all licencing options, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is available as an add-on.

Why should I choose Business Premium?

Business Premium offers advanced security features and comprehensive user management, helping you to boost cyber security and productivity.

This includes:

• Advanced threat protection to stay ahead of cyber threats. This is the best way to keep your data in OneDrive and SharePoint secure.
• Identity protection and advanced identity plus access management with Entra ID, including the integration of biometrics such as fingerprints and facial recognition with Windows Hello.
• Microsoft Intune for enterprise-grade device and endpoint protection. This is simply the best way to manage and secure all the laptops, desktops and mobile devices in use throughout your organisation. With granular controls and permissions, you can control who has access to your business data.
• Information security tools so that you can categorise your data and apply relevant controls based on those categorisations, e.g. financial, personal, restricted, GDPR.
• Sensitive information discovery and protection together with data loss prevention tools which enable you to track data, helping to ensure sensitive information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands with Microsoft Purview.

Together these tools help you to strengthen the security posture of your organisation using fully integrated tools from a familiar Microsoft environment and with a familiar Microsoft look and feel.

How we can help your business

Read more about the Grant McGregor Managed 365 Business Premium offer here and find more about our added value of Business Premium Security Bundles Datasheet here. If you’d like more information or would like to upgrade an existing Microsoft 365 licencing agreement, please get in touch with the Grant McGregor team.

What next?

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