<p>What if there was a better way for channel partners to manage Office 365, Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) cloud software suite? Chris Pyle, president and CEO of Champion Solutions Group, thinks he has the answer. It's called 365 Command, powered by MessageOps.</p><p>Hosted in Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud, 365 Command offers three core capabilities to channel partners -- particularly those that want to wrap managed services around Office 365. Those capabilities include: Administration: The service helps administers and help desk staff to perform common tasks that would otherwise require Windows PowerShell scripting knowledge. Reporting: Channel partners can generate reports to show such information as mailbox sizes, archive sizes, quotas usage and more. Partner Scalability: Channel partners can administer all of their Office 365 customers from a single login.</p><p>Pyle demonstrated 365 Command last week at the Tech Data TDCloud conference near Tampa, Fla. Roughly 100 attendees -- mostly VARs and MSPs -- seemed genuinely impressed with the service. Pricing starts at $19.95 for up to 50 seats per minth. Price-per-seat costs drop to $0.10 per month when partners scale to more than 1,000 seats. Partners can cancel the month-to-month service at any time.</p><p>Roughly 600 customers and partners uses the platform. Those customers and partners managing 365,000 mailboxes from all over the world, Pyle indicated in an email to Talkin' Cloud.</p><p><a href="http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-management/better-way-manage-microsoft-office-365">Keep reading...</a></p>