Microsoft CSP Apps
Microsoft is globally recognised for its leading office productivity suites, Microsoft 365, and Windows operating systems. However, the range of MS productivity applications goes beyond the 365 suites. Many of these programs are now available as standalone solutions through the CSP licensing channel, allowing for a more personalised selection of services.
Microsoft CSP Apps: Standalone cloud-based solutions for your organisation
In addition to essential office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Microsoft offers shared storage through OneDrive, streamlined intranet functionality via SharePoint and robust email services through Exchange. Microsoft also provides security and management at multiple levels through Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Intune, strengthening your digital environment and safeguarding your data and processes. But that’s just a part of the range of cloud-based applications Microsoft offers.
List of the most popular Microsoft CSP Apps
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Microsoft Word
is a word processing and document creation application widely used for writing, editing, viewing and sharing text documents. It features a spell checker, thesaurus and dictionary.
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Microsoft Excel
The industry-leading spreadsheet program for data analysis. A powerful tool for calculations, editing, visualising, sorting, and summarising data. It's employed for data entry and management, charts and graphs, reports and business insights, budgeting and project management.
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Microsoft PowerPoint
Presentation and slide app. Popular for creating, editing, and sharing professional-looking slide show presentations, making it ideal for visually appealing information showcasing.
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Microsoft Outlook
An email client and personal information manager. Suitable for advanced users to send and receive email messages, organise personal calendars, manage contacts and tasks, take notes, and log journals.
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OneDrive
Cloud storage and file-sharing service to protect, sync, collaborate, and access files on different devices from anywhere. Keeps your information safe with file backup, recovery and security controls.
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Microsoft Access (PC only)
Database management program to store information for reporting, analyse large amounts of data, and manage it more efficiently. Popular and easy-to-use tool for creating desktop databases and custom database applications.
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Microsoft Publisher (PC only)
Desktop publishing application focused on page layout and graphic design. Use it to create visually rich, professional-looking print and online publications like newsletters, brochures, labels, postcards, and more.
Additional Microsoft 365 CSP Services and Solutions
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Microsoft Teams
Chat, call, and video conference platform. A workspace for real-time team collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing. A great tool for streamlining communications across the organisation in one place.
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Microsoft OneNote
A cross-functional digital notebook app used for note-taking and organising. Allows users to type, handwrite, and insert notes from other apps and the web. It features drawing ideas, automatic note-saving and sync.
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SharePoint
Web-based collaboration and document management platform. It allows users to securely communicate, share, collaborate, and control content through dynamic sites, integrated content management, and streamlined intranet functionality. Organisations use SharePoint to create websites and as a secure place to store, organise, share, and access information from any device via a web browser.
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Exchange Online
Business-class email, calendar, and contacts management platform. This hosted messaging solution delivers email, calendar, contacts, and tasks from PCs, the web, and mobile devices. It also offers access to cloud security features, thus reducing the risk of breaches via email. It integrates fully with Microsoft Entra ID, allowing administrators to utilise group policies and other administration tools.
Microsoft Power Platform
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Power BI
Cloud-based, scalable and interactive business intelligence and data visualisation platform. Power BI services offer data warehouse capabilities such as data mining and interactive dashboards. By harnessing the power of AI, you can uncover valuable insights while using everyday apps and transform them into powerful impacts. Visualise data with advanced analytics tools, create datasets from various sources and consolidate everything seamlessly.
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Power Apps
A low-code development platform that allows companies to create custom applications. Make interactive rich forms, automate workflows, streamline business processes, and build custom apps without extensive coding knowledge. This low-code tool is simple to learn and allows users to develop the solutions they need when they need them.
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Power Automate
A Microsoft platform for optimising and automating workflows, time-consuming tasks and business processes across applications and services. It allows users to build custom integrations and automated processes across Microsoft 365 and third-party applications without the help of developers. Power Automate connects to 100+ sources and services such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Dropbox, SQL Server, Salesforce and Microsoft Dataverse.
Microsoft Security and Device Management
Microsoft Defender
A family of integrated cybersecurity solutions for individuals, small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises. It consists of various components:
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Cloud-native endpoint security platform for device protection, multiplatform threat detection and response. Stop cyberattacks, detect, investigate and prevent advanced threats, and minimise vulnerabilities. Secure Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and IoT devices (laptops, phones, PCs, routers, and firewalls) with the power of AI.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Integrated security and threat prevention service for email and collaboration tools. Secure your email and MS Teams against phishing, business email compromise, ransomware, malicious links and other cyber threats. Protect and respond with the help of XDR.Microsoft Defender for Identity: Cloud-based security solution for identity protection and access management, fully integrated with Microsoft Defender XDR. This solution is used to prevent breaches, investigate suspicious activities and at-risk identities, and automatically take action to stop attacks in real time.Microsoft Defender for Business: Comprehensive enterprise-grade security suite. Equipped with AI-powered endpoint protection, it automatically detects and responds to threats across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices in a hybrid working environment. Discover vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Reduce costs by uniting multiple products into one security solution tailored for small and medium-sized businesses.
Microsoft Defender for Identity
Cloud-based security solution for identity protection and access management, fully integrated with Microsoft Defender XDR. This solution is used to prevent breaches, investigate suspicious activities and at-risk identities, and automatically take action to stop attacks in real time.
Microsoft Defender for Business
Comprehensive enterprise-grade security suite. Equipped with AI-powered endpoint protection, it automatically detects and responds to threats across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices in a hybrid working environment. Discover vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Reduce costs by uniting multiple products into one security solution tailored for small and medium-sized businesses.
Microsoft Defender for Individuals
Personal cross-device security app that provides easy-to-use, comprehensive online protection for individuals and families. It safeguards users against hackers and scammers and protects privacy on unsecured networks. A Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription is required to use the app.
Microsoft Intune
Cloud-based cross-platform device management and security solution to manage, assess, and protect apps and devices. Its capabilities include cross-platform endpoint management, built-in endpoint security, mobile app management, user access control, speciality device management for frontline employees and analytics.
Other Microsoft CSP Apps
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Microsoft Stream
Video recording, sharing and management service. Users can distribute videos across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to enhance team collaboration. This service is designed for enterprise video management and allows employees to securely create, store, share, embed and view videos.
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Microsoft Lists
A smart app for organising and tracking information and work. Users can create and share various lists to keep track of issues, assets, events, routines, contacts, inventory, and more. Ready-made templates are available.
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Microsoft Viva
All-in-one employee experience platform with tools and applications for communication, feedback, analytics, goals and learning. Customisable and accessible from anywhere, Viva supports several integrations and includes the following apps: Viva Amplify, Viva Engage, Viva Connections, Viva Insights, Viva Pulse, Viva Glint, Viva Learning and Viva Goals.
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Microsoft Whiteboard
Digital canvas for collaboration designed for flexible work and learning. Includes more than 60 free templates for creative meetings and visualising ideas effectively. The app allows users to draw on a virtual whiteboard using a stylus pen, mouse, or keyboard and interact with co-workers in real time.
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Microsoft Project
Project management and planning application used for developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analysing workloads. This project management solution integrates fluently with other Microsoft applications and services.
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Microsoft Visio
Diagramming and visualisation application for creating and sharing complex diagrams and charts. Equipped with templates and pre-drawn shapes, this app helps display complex information and make it understandable. The most commonly used Visio diagram types include flowcharts, org charts, floor plans, network diagrams, UML diagrams and mind maps.
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Microsoft Sway
An intuitive app for designing interactive web content like newsletters, presentations and documentation. You can add text and multimedia, import relevant content from other sources, and let Sway's design engine bring everything together in a captivating layout and dynamically adapt it for any screen.
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Microsoft Loop
Collaborative workspace app providing features to help teams gather, organise projects, co-create, brainstorm and communicate ideas, and take notes. It offers powerful flexible canvases with portable components that move freely and sync across applications.
Microsoft Azure
Azure consists of more than 200 different solutions, united in 21 categories.
The Compute Services category
Includes 20+ products such as Virtual Machines (VMs) to deploy Windows and Linux VMs for tailored, scalable and secure VM experience; App Service to develop, deploy and scale web and mobile apps and APIs; and Azure Functions to create and execute serverless event-driven code functions following business logic.
The Storage Services category
Covers a dozen secure cloud storage services. Azure Blob storage is a reliable and scalable place for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing and machine learning. Azure Files offers fully managed serverless file shares in the cloud. Queue storage is used for asynchronous and durable message queueing for large workloads.
The Networking Services category
Contains 25 solutions for connecting on-premises and cloud infrastructure and services. Some of them are Virtual Network for creating private virtual networks in the cloud; Load Balancer for balancing network traffic and app requests; and Application Gateway for building scalable and highly available web applications.
The Databases category
Provides secure and managed enterprise-level services like Azure SQL Database for building intelligent apps on a fully managed SQL database, Cosmos DB to develop AI-powered apps providing the data infrastructure for modern operational data needs, and more.
Azure Active Directory
Identity and access management in the cloud. The solution offers single sign-on, conditional access, multifactor authentication, and secure digital experiences for various users (e.g., employees, customers, citizens, patients) within and outside the organisation. It integrates easily into apps and services and is managed conveniently from the Microsoft Entra Admin Center.
Azure DevOps
A comprehensive set of tools and services for software development and deployment using Azure technologies. These tools provide a reliable and straightforward way to build, release, test, and monitor cloud and mobile applications and services. They also facilitate team collaboration for sharing code, tracking work, and shipping software.
Microsoft Dynamics 365
CRM and ERP business applications from Microsoft.
Dynamics 365 Sales
Microsoft AI-powered CRM solution. Helps for managing sales processes and customer relationships. Used to keep track of accounts and contacts, nurture leads, track progress and KPIs, sales forecasting and team performance analysis.
Dynamics 365 Customer Service
A cloud-based solution that helps organisations provide excellent customer support. Perfectly suited to track customer issues, record interactions, store information in a knowledge base, manage conversations across channels (including voice, MS Teams, and chats), and track service levels via SLAs.
Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
Marketing automation and campaign management solution. With its help, businesses can create personalised content, tailor responsive real-time customer journeys across sales, marketing, and service teams, and use Copilot to find new insights.
Dynamics 365 Finance and Dynamics 365 Project Operations
ERP financial and project-centric management solutions. Utilise Dynamics 365 Finance for financial reporting, embedded analytics, and AI-driven insights to streamline your company's financial operations. Dynamics 365 Project Operations is a comprehensive solution connecting sales, resourcing, project management, and finance teams within a single application to enhance deal closure, expedite project delivery, and maximise profitability.
Server and desktop OS licences
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Windows Server
- Enterprise-class server operating systems for running applications and services on servers.
- Delivers shared services for multiple users and allows substantial administrative control of corporate networks, data storage and applications.
- It provides features like Active Directory, file services, Windows Admin Center, HVCI, SDN, Storage replica, VMs, web hosting and Azure integration.
- Available in different editions (Standard, Datacenter, Essentials) with varying capabilities.
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SQL Server
- A relational database management system (RDBMS).
- Supports data storage, retrieval and management.
- Used for applications, business intelligence, scientific data and analytics.
- Several editions are available, including Enterprise, Standard, Web, Developer and Express, designed for various-sized organisations and different amounts of workloads, ranging from small single-machine to large Internet applications.
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Windows 10 & Windows 11
- The latest versions of the most widespread operating system for end-user desktop, laptop and tablet devices.
- Include features like digital assistance, virtual desktops, optimised screen space, improved performance for better productivity, built-in accessibility and many security enhancements.
- Several editions are available: Home, Professional, Enterprise and Education, differing in features based on their target audience.
