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distribution), it costs around € 15 per user and month. For a big enterprise with for
example 10,000 employees, this implies costs about € 1.8 million per year. However
the cost saving aspect becomes effective when companies do not have to make
huge investments into internal IT infrastructure and licensing models, when using
Office 365 (Faltus, 2013) & (Murray, 2012, pp. 37-39).
Figure 24 - Microsoft Office 365
Another advantage is the lapse of the prerequisites for an additional Application
Programming Interface, if the integrated system is based on Microsoft’s ERP system
Dynamics.
8.3.1
Potential Benefits & Risks of Microsoft Office 365
A benefit is the straightforwardness of costs. Microsoft provides a clear licensing
model for companies on a per user basis. Another advantage is, as Leo Faltus
(2013)
describes, that all files created for example in PowerPoint can be accessed
from anywhere using just a browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple
Source: (Microsoft, 2013)
