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If you’re a current Microsoft Office 365 E4 subscriber, there are some changes coming in the near future. Earlier this month, corporate vice president for Microsoft Office, John Case, announced the introduction of E5, a new addition to the premium Office 365 Enterprise Suites.
More than simply a new addition, E5 will, in fact, replace the current E4. While no solid dates have been released yet, Microsoft intends to make the switch before the end of 2015.
New Features in E5
There wouldn’t be much point in changing things just for the sake of it, so E5 will deliver all the same collaboration and productivity capabilities today’s business users demand, with some important enhancements in both features and security.
Skype for Business
As well as the enhanced features in Skype for Business, security upgrades include Customer Lockbox, Data Loss Protection, eDiscovery and Safe Attachments.
Business Intelligence Built In
Power BI, a subscription based or stand-alone service, is included in E5 in a new enhanced version called Power BI Pro. Power BI Pro upgrades the data capacity limit per user to 10GB, allows hourly schedule data refresh, and has many new collaboration features such as creating and publishing customised content packs and sharing data queries through the data catalogue. More details on the new features can be found here.
Upgrade Options
The retiring of E4 obviously impacts current users of the plan. If this is you, you’ll have the option of either going straight to E5 or reverting to E3 plus Cloud PBX. New customers will either purchase E5 straight off or go with combinations of E1 and E3 with upgrades should they wish to take advantage of Cloud PBX and PSTN calling or conferencing.
Microsoft hasn’t finalised and released prices yet for the new E5, but if you’d like to be kept informed when they do become available, either check back here or get in touch with us for more details.
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