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Microsoft 365

Unlock your Full Potential with the ultimate collaboration solution

Microsoft 365 is the heart of collaboration tools for customers and the lifeblood of Ascend’s project work.

Since Microsoft 365 inception, we have worked with hundreds of customers on thousands of organizational projects to keep collaboration secure and employees productive. We combine decades of on-prem and Microsoft 365 expertise with readiness, security, and migration services for Exchange, SharePoint, PowerBI, OneDrive and more. Our knowledge, approach, and experience stand out to serve you well.

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Teams

Microsoft’s collaboration platform brings together calling, conferencing, documents, chat, and more. Our deep understanding of Voice/Conferencing, use cases, and governance help align your collaboration needs with the right tools.

Key Benefits:

  • Chat & Collaboration
  • Productivity Apps & Workflows
  • Meetings & Calling
  • Mobile-Friendly
  • Security & Compliance

Office 365

We are security experts, so we surround organizational collaboration needs with governance from expert people, processes, and solutions like Microsoft 365. From securing user identities to monitoring for business email compromises, we help protect, detect, and respond to security incidents.

Key Benefits:

  • Collaboration – manage all your services in one console, easily share with customers & partners, and stay connected with the ability to meet whenever, wherever
  • Productivity – use Microsoft applications from any device, access files wherever you go, and enjoy seamless business continuity
  • Security – Microsoft offers built-in protections against spam & malware and provides added security for mobile devices

OneDrive

Are your collaboration needs outpacing file server capabilities? Ascend has helped hundreds of companies implement modern, secure file sharing, including migration from competitive platforms like Box, Google Drive, Notes, and others.

Key Benefits:

  • Access to files across Office 365 in the cloud with the ability to manage and preview from anywhere
  • Advanced file sharing capabilities for both inside and outside your organization
  • The ability to collaborate on files in real-time
  • Added security features for recovering files following malicious attacks, creating access codes for files, and more

PowerBi

We bring over a decade of experience to help our clients leverage Microsoft’s Power BI for business intelligence solutions. Power BI is a leading tool that offers data preparation, visual-based data discovery, interactive dashboards and augmented analytics in a single solution.

Key Benefits:

  • Connect to hundreds of different types of data sources both on-premises and in the cloud.
  • Model your data through Power Query to simplify, transform, integrate, and enrich.
  • Instantly create visualizations for data exploration
  • Publish reports and dashboards to enable collaboration
  • Get access anytime, anywhere through Power BI Mobile

Exchange

We have worked with Exchange and other messaging platforms for decades.  We’ve seamlessly migrated over 300,000 mailboxes to Office 365, starting with careful planning whether you’re currently on Exchange, Lotus Notes, Gmail, Rackspace, or another platform.

Key Benefits:

  • Advanced Security – keeps your mailboxes secure with anti-malware, anti-spam filtering, and automatic patching
  • Reliability –  ultra-reliable, offering a guaranteed 99.9% uptime
  • Mobile-Friendly – access your email from any device or major browser and secure it with PIN lock, mobile device lists, and more
  • Data Backups – keep your information safe with data loss prevention, globally redundant servers, automatic permissions and policies, and disaster recovery capabilities

SharePoint

Over 500 customers have leveraged our services for SharePoint’s collaboration tools and extended with Power Platform (Power Apps, Flow,  Power BI). Common workloads include intranets, migrations from legacy SharePoint versions, business process improvements, departmental sites, data architecture, or platform shifts from Notes or Google.

Key Benefits:

  • Create custom intranet sites for sharing news, data, forms, files, etc
  • Create team-specific sites for file sharing, collaboration, and more
  • Create custom applications and workflows
  • Keep robust records for compliance purposes
  • Integrate SharePoint with Office 365 or third-party applications to optimize collaboration and functionality

Why is Licensing with Ascend better?

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Ascend has helped hundreds of organizations integrate users, mailboxes, tenants, and more with minimal business interruption.

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Microsoft Licensing

Having trouble navigating the world of cloud licensing?
Ascend can help you right-size your licensing and ensure that you’re using what you own.

Microsoft Collaboration + Security

How Ascend Can Help

Envisioning & Readiness

We evaluate your current environment and perform readiness assessments to help you prepare for optimal adoption.

Configuration

We can configure your solutions to meet your specific needs, including developing integrations and APIs, creating usability and permission settings, setting up devices, and more.

Adoption

We help companies ensure their adoption and deployment of new collaboration solutions go smoothly. This includes planning, configuration, provisioning, employee training, and more.

Governance

We ensure your solutions are set up to comply with internal and industry-determined compliance regulations. This includes developing and setting user profiles with appropriate permissions, data loss prevention, and dozens of other controls.

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Stress & Productivity

 

Ready for a Collaboration Solution?

  • Seamlessly communicate, share documents, and collaborate across teams and with clients.
  • Unlock your full potential with the power of Microsoft customizations and integrations.
  • Get access to business-critical applications and files from wherever you are working, at any time.
  • Get the most out of your Microsoft licensing and applications by using a Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP).

Reach out to one of our collaboration experts to get started!

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