5 products you’re probably not using in your Microsoft 365 package
Author: Sonia Older | Date published: March, 7, 2024, UK | Read est: 3 min read
Often hailed as the ‘digital office king’, and probably the most used digital suite of tools in the working world, Microsoft 365 hosts the most useful and business-ready products on the market today. From Word to PowerPoint and the dynamic workhorse that is Excel, Microsoft 365 has everything you could need. However, not as much thought is given to the range of benefits that businesses could gain from the under-utilised apps included in Microsoft 365. Below, we take a look at the lesser-known siblings of the Microsoft package and how they can make tasks and processes easier for you and your business.
Project
Despite being surrounded by stiff competition in the sector, Microsoft Project remains a popular and easy-to-use project management software. Great for beginners or pros, Project integrates easily with other software in the suite and is a great way to take the hassle and cost out of project management.
Visio
Visio is a little bit like its brother, Power BI. A comprehensive flowchart software, Visio makes it relatively simple and easy to create striking business visuals.The software comes with dozens of premade templates, starter diagrams and stencils in both the desktop and web apps. It’s a quick win for your business.
OneNote
A digital solution for all your creative moments, OneNote is a digital notation program that allows you to type, write or draw with a stylus (or your finger). You can copy and paste pictures from the web, and more generally use its menus to organise your thoughts when you’re working.
Planner
A little more formal and dynamic than OneNote, Microsoft Planner is a task management application that uses boards and features like checklists and labels to help organise your team’s tasks and ongoing workflow. It can automatically transform a task’s status into a pie or bar chart (for some quick, handy visuals) and is recommended as a great companion to Microsoft Teams.
Yammer
Yammer is the most interesting of Microsoft 365’s suite of lesser-known tools. In short, it is a kind of internal social media program that allows you to connect and communicate with other hubs/offices. It’s a great way of communicating and engaging with all members of a business, whilst getting an overview of your growth. Equally, it’s a good way to facilitate collaboration between departments and a useful platform to make sure everyone gets heard in a larger enterprise. It can also be used to communicate with outside businesses.
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Sonia Older
Brand & Campaign Manager
Sonia Older is the Campaign Manager at Focus Group and a highly experienced copywriter. She boasts over 20 years of experience in content marketing and PR across multiple industries, and is the key driver of content and PR for Focus Group across all UK offices. Away from work, Sonia usually swaps keyboard strokes for ski slopes in the Alps with her family.
