Modern Work
Valoriser le modern work avec Microsoft 365 et Copilot, pour favoriser la productivité, la collaboration et une sécurité optimale.
The way people work has changed fundamentally. Distributed teams, hybrid environments, and the rise of AI-powered productivity tools demand a modern workplace infrastructure that is both seamless and secure. Microsoft 365 — with Teams, SharePoint, Copilot, and the full suite of productivity applications — provides the foundation. Getting it right requires a partner with the expertise, the certifications, and the track record to deliver.
One Step Beyond is a certified Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work & Security, operating in Switzerland since 2017. We have helped organisations across French-speaking Switzerland and beyond deploy, optimise, and secure their Microsoft 365 environments — transforming the way their teams collaborate, communicate, and work. Our Swiss Partner of the Year awards in Business Applications (2019) and MS Teams (2020) reflect a commitment to implementation excellence that goes beyond standard deployment.
Our Modern Work Capabilities
Microsoft 365 Deployment & Optimisation
A successful Microsoft 365 deployment is not just a technical exercise — it is a change management challenge. Our consultants assess your current collaboration environment, design the right Microsoft 365 architecture for your organisation, and manage the migration and deployment process from end to end. We cover Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, and the full suite of Microsoft 365 applications — ensuring that your users adopt the platform effectively and your IT team operates it confidently.
Microsoft Teams & Collaboration
Microsoft Teams has become the central hub of modern workplace collaboration — but its full potential is only unlocked when it is properly configured, governed, and integrated with your business processes. Our Teams specialists design and implement Teams environments that match your organisational structure, configure governance policies that prevent sprawl, integrate Teams with your line-of-business applications, and enable the telephony, meeting room, and event capabilities your organisation needs. We earned the Swiss Partner of the Year award for MS Teams in 2020 — recognition of our deployment expertise and client success track record.
Microsoft 365 Copilot — AI-Powered Productivity
Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI-powered assistance directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams — automating routine tasks, summarising meetings, drafting content, and surfacing insights from your data. Deploying Copilot effectively requires preparation: data classification, access rights review, sensitivity labels, and information barriers must be in place before Copilot can be safely activated. Our consultants deliver Copilot readiness assessments, prepare your Microsoft 365 environment for secure AI deployment, and support user adoption to ensure that Copilot delivers measurable productivity gains — not just a licence.
SharePoint & Intranet
SharePoint is the backbone of knowledge management and internal communication in Microsoft 365. We design and build SharePoint intranet environments that reflect your organisation’s structure, improve information accessibility, and integrate with Microsoft Teams for seamless navigation. Our implementations cover information architecture, site design, metadata and taxonomy, content migration, and user adoption — delivered with the governance framework needed to keep your intranet relevant and maintainable over time.
Modern Work Advisory & Digital Transformation
Adopting modern work solutions is a strategic decision, not just a technology project. Our advisors work with your leadership and IT teams to define a modern work strategy aligned with your business objectives — identifying the tools, workflows, and adoption programmes that will deliver measurable results. We provide tailored strategies to adopt and optimise Microsoft 365 solutions, covering change management, training, and continuous improvement to ensure that your organisation extracts lasting value from its Microsoft investment.
Securing Modern Work — Zero Trust & Microsoft Security
Productivity and security are not mutually exclusive. Our Modern Work deployments are built on a Zero Trust security foundation — enforcing identity verification through Microsoft Entra ID, device compliance through Microsoft Intune, and data protection through Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and information barriers. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Security, we integrate security controls into every Modern Work deployment — ensuring that your Microsoft 365 environment is protected from the outset, and compliant with Swiss regulatory requirements including nLPD and FINMA.
Why One Step Beyond for Modern Work?
One Step Beyond has been a Microsoft Partner since 2017 — and our Modern Work practice is built on nearly a decade of Swiss deployment experience, an unbroken track record of Microsoft partner status upgrades, and three Swiss Partner of the Year awards.
Our Microsoft partnership milestones reflect consistent investment in technical depth: Managed Partner in 2018, Double Advanced Specialization in 2021, Solution Partner for Modern Work since 2021, and Solution Partner for Modern Work & Security achieved in 2024. Each upgrade requires demonstrated client success and certified engineering expertise — not just commercial volume.
We serve organisations across French-speaking Switzerland, primarily SMEs and mid-market companies in Vaud, Geneva, and surrounding cantons, from our office in Gland (Vaud). For organisations that require deeper cybersecurity integration alongside their Modern Work deployment — SOC monitoring, Zero Trust architecture, endpoint protection, or IAM — we collaborate seamlessly with our Swiss Expert Group partners: e-Xpert Solutions (Geneva, Lausanne) for cybersecurity operations, and eb-Qual (Givisiez, Kloten) for network and infrastructure security.
Technologies We Work With :
Our Modern Work practice is built on the Microsoft ecosystem — the world’s most widely deployed enterprise productivity platform:
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work & Security, we maintain the highest level of Microsoft certification available for Modern Work deployments — backed by certified consultants, proven implementation methodologies, and a direct relationship with Microsoft Switzerland.
Ready to Transform the Way Your Team Works?
Whether you are deploying Microsoft 365 for the first time, optimising an existing environment, preparing for Copilot, or looking to secure your modern work platform, One Step Beyond brings certified Microsoft expertise and a proven Swiss deployment track record. Contact us to discuss your modern work ambitions.
Frequently Asked Questions – Modern Work in Switzerland
Q : What is Microsoft 365 and why should Swiss organisations use it?
Microsoft 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite — covering email (Exchange Online), document collaboration (SharePoint, OneDrive), communication (Microsoft Teams), productivity applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and AI-powered assistance (Copilot). For Swiss organisations, Microsoft 365 offers enterprise-grade collaboration capabilities with Swiss data residency options, compliance features aligned with nLPD and FINMA, and seamless integration with Microsoft’s security stack. One Step Beyond helps Swiss organisations deploy Microsoft 365 effectively — covering migration, configuration, governance, security, and user adoption.
Q : What is Microsoft 365 Copilot and how do we prepare for it?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant integrated into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 applications. It uses large language models to help users draft documents, summarise meetings, analyse data, and automate routine tasks. Preparing for Copilot requires completing a readiness assessment covering: data classification and sensitivity labels, access rights review (Copilot surfaces data based on existing permissions), information barriers for sensitive content, and Microsoft Entra ID governance. One Step Beyond delivers Copilot readiness assessments and deployments — ensuring that your organisation activates Copilot safely and achieves measurable productivity gains.
Q : What is One Step Beyond's Microsoft partner status?
One Step Beyond has been a Microsoft Partner since 2017. Partnership milestones include: Managed Partner (2018), Double Advanced Specialization (2021), Solution Partner for Modern Work (2021), and Solution Partner for Modern Work & Security (2024). The company has earned three Swiss Partner of the Year awards: Business Applications (2019), MS Teams (2020), and Swiss Community Response (2021). Solution Partner status requires demonstrated client success, certified engineers, and ongoing performance metrics — it is the highest level of Microsoft partnership available.
Q : How does One Step Beyond ensure Microsoft 365 deployments are secure?
Every Modern Work deployment by One Step Beyond is built on a Zero Trust security foundation. This includes Microsoft Entra ID for identity governance and conditional access, Microsoft Intune for device compliance and management, Microsoft Purview for data classification, sensitivity labels, and information barriers, and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 for email and collaboration threat protection. As a Solution Partner for Modern Work & Security, our consultants integrate security controls into the deployment process — not as an afterthought, but as a core component of every Microsoft 365 implementation.
Q : Does One Step Beyond support Dynamics 365 and Power Platform as well?
Yes. In addition to Modern Work, One Step Beyond delivers Customer Journey solutions using Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, and App Modernization, Data & GenAI solutions using Microsoft Power Platform. These three practices — Modern Work, Customer Journey, and App Modernization — form One Step Beyond’s Microsoft cloud offering, all underpinned by a consistent Zero Trust security foundation. For organisations requiring cybersecurity beyond the Microsoft stack, we collaborate with our Swiss Expert Group partners e-Xpert Solutions and eb-Qual.
Q : Where is One Step Beyond based?
One Step Beyond is headquartered in Gland (Vaud) — Route de Cité-Ouest 2, 1196 Gland, telephone +41 22 995 96 12. The company also operates an office in Budapest (Hungary).
As part of Swiss Expert Group, One Step Beyond collaborates with e-Xpert Solutions (Geneva, Lausanne) and eb-Qual (Givisiez, Kloten) to deliver integrated cybersecurity and cloud solutions across Switzerland.
