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Here are 4 links addressing Office 365 for the Enterprise: 

Office 365: 5 Factors That Swayed One Enterprise 

Hendrick Auto already uses Office Communications Server to support internal collaboration via audio, video, and Web conferencing. Office 365 opens the possibility of creating those same kinds of online get-togethers with partners, suppliers, and customers. Office 365 gets those capabilities from Lync Online, which enables online meetings, video calls, and more. "We think there's going to be an advantage in that," Taylor said.

Microsoft Office 365 is Also for the Enterprise 

"We've developed a wide range of service plans [and] our service level agreements are the best in the industry," Ballmer told his launch event audience. He cited a list of enterprises that have been testing Office 365 since it's been in beta test in April, including McDonalds, Philips, Starbucks, Volvo, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels, Coca Cola Enterprises, GlaxoSmithKline and Kraft Foods, claiming that more than 200,000 organizations signed up to test Office 365.

Office 365 Bring Enterprise Ready Cloud Productivity to State and Local Governments 

Microsoft Office 365 is designed to help agencies and departments take advantage of the cloud with greater agility and flexibility, while providing cost-effective choices to support their mission. The solution offers the Microsoft Office applications agencies already trust-including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint- from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection, and integrates new cloud versions of our real-time communications and collaboration services, including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Lync Online. The result is an enterprise-ready set of productivity tools that allows agencies to accomplish more with less, while directly supporting state and local telework, information sharing, and data center consolidation initiatives.

Why Choose the Office 365 E2 Enterprise Plan Reason #1: Unlimited Personal Archive 

The E2 plan has an UNLIMITED PERSONAL ARCHIVE!  Let me say that again, …AN UNLIMITED PERSONAL ARCHIVE!!  Sounds sweet. Pasted below are the relevant points of documentation taken from the newly released service description.