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Microsoft 365 | Rebranding Office 365 business plans

In Microsoft 365
April 17, 2020
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The news is huge! Microsoft has decided to rebrand Office 365 business plans and name them on Microsoft 365 context, from April 21st, 2020. A few years ago when Microsoft 365 was introduced, its sole purpose was to provide a subscription bundle of Windows 10, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security. However, recently, Microsoft made an announcement that the tech giant has decided to rebrand a few subscription plans, and introduced a few new plans.

Which plans are affected by this M365 name change?

The flowing plans are affected by this announcement:

  • Office 365 Business and Office 365 Pro Plus

Both of these will be called Microsoft 365 Apps starting 21st April, 2020. To distinguish between the two, Microsoft will continue using “for business” and “for enterprise” as labels

  • Office 365 Business Premium

This will be rebranded Microsoft 365 Business Standard and all occurrences in documentation must be changed accordingly.

  • Office 365 Business Essentials

This plan will now be called as Microsoft 365 Business Basic from 21st April, 2020.

  • Microsoft 365 Business

Even though it is not a part of Office 365 family, Microsoft has announced this would be rebranded as Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

Which plans remain unchanged?

Other than the plans mentioned above, most plans are unaffected by the name change announcement. To give you a clear view you about whether your subscription plan is rebranded or not, take a look at the following list and find it yourself. The following plans have remained unchanged.

Office 365 for Government

  • Office 365 G1
  • Office 365 G3
  • Office 365 G5

Office 365 for Enterprise

  • Office 365 E1
  • Office 365 E3
  • Office 365 E5

Office 365 for Education

  • Office 365 A1
  • Office 365 A3
  • Office 365 A5

Office 365 for First line

  • Office 365 F1

The motivation behind rebranding

The Microsoft officials mentioned in the blogpost, where they announced the rebranding news, that the idea of rebranding is to indicate that Office 365 is not just Word, Excel and PowerPoint that half of the world still believes. Office 365 has grown a lot in the past years with products like Teams, Forms, Stream, and Planner and the name Microsoft 365 is a true depiction of what Office has evolved into, over the years. The officials confirmed that there won’t be any changes for now in price, features or the plans.

MachCloud – the favorite Microsoft 365 Provider for Resellers

If you are in search for a Platform to offer best in line Microsoft 365, look no further. MachCloud offers the best Reselling opportunity for all Office 365 resellers in the market. With better profit margins and a high reliability of services, MachCloud has become the favorite platform for Resellers. It offers basic plans like business plans (which include Business Basic, Business Apps, Business Standard and Business Premium), enterprise plans (which include Enterprise E1, Enterprise ProPlus and Enterprise E3) as well as Add-ons like Business Voice, Phone System and Business Apps. With the addition of delivering telephony services you offer a complete package, all from the MachCloud Portal.

Stay ahead of the curve and get your hands on MachCloud for a smooth and profitable service delivery to your customers.

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Opportunities for a SIP Trunking Business Provider

In SIP Trunking
April 10, 2019
3 Min Read
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SIP trunking business is in the norm these days. Businesses are opting towards unified communications and so SIP trunking business is quite promising.  There is so much to offer for a SIP Trunk reseller that it sometimes gets difficult to prioritize. You’ll want to provide the best service and establish reliable infrastructure but at the same time you would want to keep a check on the costs that you are going to offer to your customers. In today’s blogpost, we are going to enlist a few opportunities that SIP Trunk Resellers can take in order make maximum benefit and keep the customers happy.

Offer a Unified Communication Solution

Often cloud businesses approach SIP trunking business providers to cater their needs of a communication infrastructure. With the growing needs of businesses, a need for unified communications is also increasing. A SIP Trunk provider or a SIP reseller must provide everything related to communication to a business so the entrepreneurs themselves don’t have to struggle with the operational aspects of communications but give them comfort so they can utilize communication infrastructure to add value to their business. It is therefore essential to realize the needs of SIP trunking business clients and make sure you fulfill all their communication needs.

Focus on the residual Income

Whatever your upfront fee is going to be, the real value to your SIP trunking business comes from the residual income, which is what the customers pay you each month. The best way to take this opportunity and flourish your SIP business is by establishing a commission based reseller program in which people or small startups can sell the SIP trunking business services for you while you can easily collect revenue. This model is a sure win-win for every reseller’s business.

Consider Scalability to cater for business expansion

As a SIP Trunk Service Reseller, it is always advisable to cater for your clients’ business growing communication needs. When clients opt for a plan, they might switch to another plan after some time depending upon the expansion of their cloud business. Resellers who don’t take the business Growth factor into account end up losing their customers after a few years. For a long-term customer satisfaction, always consider the growing communication infrastructure needs of your clients and expand your SIP trunking business infrastructure accordingly.

MachCloud and SIP Trunk Reselling for your business

MachCloud is the best Communication delivery platform that you can get your hands on in Unified communications market. Featuring, PSTN, SIP Trunking, Hosted Voice, Microsoft Skype for Buisness and many other services like Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure services; MachCloud is the most promising platform to take care of all your business communication needs.  It offers brilliant pricing plans like Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, the most popular Office 365 Enterprise E3 and Office 365 ProPlus.

With all these features available in best rates in market, it’s high time you should get your hands on MachCloud Control Panel to answer all your business communication needs.

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