Facebook transfers employees to Office 365

2016: Facebook implements Office 365

On July 12, 2016 the world's largest social network Facebook announced implementation of the cloud products Office 365 in work of the employees. At the same time the American company will not use the Microsoft services competing with own solutions of Facebook.

According to the The Wall Street Journal newspaper, all 13 thousand employees of Facebook will apply in the working purposes of Office 365, including services of the calendar and e-mail. The company decided to refrain from Yammer (social network for offices), Skype for Business (the corporate tool for video conferences and correspondences) and other products of Microsoft which directly compete with Facebook services.

Facebook transfers employees to Office 365

Employees of Facebook use for internal communication and interaction corporate social network Facebook at Work network. In the same the company cannot do without traditional e-mail even when using Facebook at Work, the Chief information officer of Facebook Tim Campos says.

According to forecasts of Radicati Group research firm, by the end of 2016 about 215.3 billion e-mails will daily go worldwide, and to the 2020th this indicator will increase by 5% annually.

Before transition to cloud versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. the staff of Facebook used local versions of these programs. Campos noted that Office 365 will allow Facebook to take advantage of the Microsoft Delve tool capable to distinguish interrelations between people, data and  the performed work in  Office 365. Thanks to Delve the staff of the company, for example, can quickly get access to the internal reports and news directly related to their work.

The chief information officer of Facebook considers that Delve does work at office more quietly as helps workers to avoid studying of a large number of unnecessary information for search of necessary data and documents.^[1]

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